SOCCER PLAYER

Ted Drake

1912 - 1995

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Edward Joseph Drake (16 August 1912 – 30 May 1995) was an English football player and manager. As a player, he first played for Southampton but made his name playing for Arsenal in the 1930s, winning two league titles and an FA Cup, as well as five caps for England. Drake is Arsenal's joint fifth highest goalscorer of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ted Drake has received more than 228,858 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ted Drake is the 2,195th most popular soccer player (up from 2,696th in 2019), the 3,047th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,721st in 2019) and the 99th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ted Drakes by language

Over the past year Ted Drake has had the most page views in the with 25,241 views, followed by Russian (2,387), and German (2,100). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (97.30%), Danish (32.61%), and Egyptian Arabic (25.26%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ted Drake ranks 2,195 out of 21,273. Before him are Mokhtar Dahari, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Rodrigo De Paul, Hidetoki Takahashi, Agustín Balbuena, and Freddie Ljungberg. After him are Alberto Mario González, André Vandewyer, Bruno Pezzey, Harry Andersson, Jupp Kapellmann, and Károly Sándor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Ted Drake ranks 237. Before him are Jehan Buhan, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Frank Thomas, Maurice Guigue, Léon Damas, and Roger Courtois. After him are Ferdinand Leitner, Sándor Végh, Tadashi Imai, Nam Sung-yong, György Szűcs, and Albert Richter. Among people deceased in 1995, Ted Drake ranks 191. Before him are René Wellek, Jack Clayton, Francesco Camusso, Shura Cherkassky, J. William Fulbright, and Karl Gruber. After him are Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Katherine DeMille, Hermínio de Brito, V. J. Sukselainen, Laurindo Almeida, and Rick Aviles.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ted Drake ranks 3,047 out of 8,785. Before him are Genesis P-Orridge (1950), Anthony Hope (1863), Richard Pococke (1704), Andrew Loog Oldham (1944), Samuel Baker (1821), and Thomas Digges (1546). After him are Dorothy Garrod (1892), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Jimmie Nicol (1939), Felicity Jones (1983), Roy Urquhart (1901), and Gladys Cooper (1888).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Ted Drake ranks 99. Before him are Alan Ball Jr. (1945), Jimmy McGrory (1904), Andy Cole (1971), Pat Jennings (1945), Jimmy Johnstone (1944), and Fred Pentland (1883). After him are Paul Cook (1956), Jesse Carver (1911), Jamie Carragher (1978), Mark Hughes (1963), James Milner (1986), and Steve Bloomer (1874).

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