Frank Powell

Frank Powell’s sporting career started as a boxer with his regiment in the Glamorgan Yeomanry. However, he had also been a keen footballer from a young age, and went on to play as centre-forward with Nottingham Forest and as an all-rounder at Pontypridd, where he played in eight different positions in the 1911/12 season. When he joined Portsmouth as an assistant trainer in 1912, Powell was also recruited as an “occasional player”. He later had spells as a trainer at Cardiff City and Newport County before joining Clapton Orient just after World War I. In 1928 Powell went coaching at Valparaiso, Chile, and during his three-year spell in the South American country he coached them at the Amsterdam Olympics. Upon returning to Britain in 1931, Powell re-joined Clapton Orient. At the time of his death, Powell was chairman of Lancing Athletic FC.