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Stan Cullis
Personal information
Full name Stanley Cullis
Date of birth 25 October 1916(1916-10-25)
Place of birth    Ellesmere Port, England
Date of death    28 February 2001 (aged 84)
Place of death    Malvern, England
Playing position Defender
Youth career
1930–1933 Ellesmere Port Wednesday
Senior career1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1934–1947 Wolverhampton Wanderers 152 00(2)   
National team
1937–1939 England 012 00(0)
Teams managed
1948–1964
1965–1970		 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Birmingham City

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Stan Cullis (25 October 1916 – 28 February 2001) was a football player and manager, most notably for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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[edit] Playing career

Cullis joined Wolverhampton Wanderers as a teenager after a trial at Bolton Wanderers, signing professionally within a week of his arrival. He quickly moved up through the youth and reserve ranks and made his senior debut on 16 February 1935 in a 2–3 defeat at Huddersfield Town. He had to wait until the 1936–37 season though before he became first choice, when he replaced Bill Morris, and swiftly became club captain.

Cullis led the team to become one of the top teams in England, finishing runners-up in the league in 1938 and 1939 Wolves had the chance to win The Double but 5 wins in the last 11 matches the team lost the championship by 5 points to Everton and reaching the FA Cup Final then losing 4–1 to Portsmouth thus Wolves became the first English club to achieve The Double Horror.

When the Second World War started it took away many of the best years of Cullis' career.

He won a call-up to the England team, and made his international debut on 23 October 1937 in a 5–1 success against Ireland. Due to the outbreak of the war, he won only 12 full caps (once as captain), although he also played in 20 wartime internationals (10 as captain).

When England played Germany in Berlin on 14 May 1938, Cullis refused to join the rest of his team mates in performing a Nazi salute prior to the match. Cullis, the only player to refuse, was dropped from the team; England won the match 6–3.[1]

During the conflict, he served as a PT instructor in both Britain and Italy, and also managed 34 wartime appearances for Wolves in regional competitions, as well as guesting for Aldershot, Fulham and Liverpool.

When competitive football resumed in England in 1946–47, Cullis played just one more season for Wolves in which the club once again narrowly missed out on a first league title. He then announced his retirement due to injury and was appointed assistant to manager Ted Vizard, after having made 171 appearances in total for the club.

[edit] Management career

In June 1948, aged just 31, Cullis became manager of Wolves and presided over the most successful era in the club's history. In his first season in charge, he became the youngest manager to win the FA Cup at Wembley as Wolves beat Leicester City to win their first major trophy since 1908. Five years later Wolves overhauled local rivals West Bromwich Albion to win their first league title.

Cullis' team restored some pride to English football after the national team's thrashings at the hands of Hungary when they beat the star-studded Honvéd side in a friendly, and Cullis' comments that his team were "champions of the world" played a large part in the formation of European club competitions.

Cullis led Wolves to two more league titles, in 1958 and 1959, and they narrowly missed the hat-trick in 1960 by losing by 1 point to Burnley, while also winning the FA Cup again in 1960 avoiding a repeat of the 1939 Double Horror season, sealing their position as one of the dominant teams of the era. The 1960s saw Wolves begin to struggle, and Cullis was surprisingly sacked in September 1964, declaring that he would not work in football again, despite an offer from Juventus.

After a short spell working as a sales representative, he did return to the game as manager of Birmingham City in December 1965, but could not reproduce the success he had enjoyed at Wolves. Cullis retired from football in March 1970, and took up a post with a travel agency in Malvern, his adopted home town.

He died on 28 February 2001 at the age of 84.

Tributes to Cullis include the naming of a stand (the Stan Cullis Stand) at Wolves' Molineux Stadium, and in 2003 he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his impact as a manager.

[edit] Honours

Wolverhampton Wanderers (as player and manager)

Football League First Division

  • Winner 1954, 1958, 1959
  • Runner-up 1938, 1939, 1950, 1955, 1960

FA Cup

FA Charity Shield

  • Winner 1959
  • Shared 1949 (with Portsmouth), 1954 (with West Bromwich Albion), 1960 (with Burnley)
  • Runner-up 1958

[edit] Wolverhampton Wanderers Career Statistics

[edit] Player


Club performance League Cup Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
England League FA Cup Total
1934–35 Wolverhampton Wanderers First Division 3 0 0 0 3 0
1935-36 12 0 0 0 12 0
1936-37 24 0 7 0 31 0
1937-38 36 0 2 0 38 0
1938-39 40 0 6 0 46 0
1939–40 0 0 0 0 0 0
1946–47 37 0 3 0 40 0
Career Total 152 0 18 0 170 0

[edit] Manager

Season League FA Cup FA Charity Shield Europe
Division P W D L F A Pts Pos
1948–49 First Division 42 17 12 13 79 66 46 6th W
1949–50 42 20 13 9 76 49 53 2nd R5 Shared
1950–51 42 15 8 19 74 61 38 14th SF
1951–52 42 12 14 16 73 73 38 16th R4
1952–53 42 19 13 10 86 63 51 3rd R3
1953–54 42 25 7 10 96 56 57 1st R3
1954–55 42 19 10 13 89 70 48 2nd QF Shared
1955–56 42 20 9 13 89 65 49 3rd R3
1956–57 42 20 8 14 94 70 48 6th R4
1957–58 42 28 8 6 103 47 64 1st QF
1958–59 42 28 5 9 110 49 61 1st R4 R/U European Cup R1
1959–60 42 24 6 12 106 67 54 2nd W W European Cup QF
1960–61 42 25 7 10 103 75 57 3rd R3 Shared European Cup Winners' Cup SF
1961–62 42 13 10 19 73 86 36 18th R4
1962–63 42 20 10 12 93 65 50 5th R3
1963–64 42 12 15 15 70 80 39 16th R3

[edit] References

  1. ^ Wooldridge, Ian (3 March 2001). "Last time sport was stopped, it almost was the end of the world". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-301779/Last-time-sport-stopped-end-world.html. Retrieved on 22 November 2008. 

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