engineer association football player
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
He also represented England in the second international football match against Scotland in 1873. In 1869, he entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. In August 1871, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers.
En route to the final, the Engineers did not concede a goal and defeated Hitchin 5–0, Hampstead Heathens 3–0 and Crystal Palace 3–0 (after a goalless draw).
In its report on the match, the Glasgow Herald (Monday, 10 March 1873) noted that "the back play of A G Goodwyn.. was faultless". In 1874, Goodwyn was posted back to India with his regiment, where he died, at Roorkee, on 14 March 1874 (the day after his 24th birthday) as a result of injuries suffered in a riding accident.
He was the first international football player to die. Royal Engineers Final finalist: 1872.
He was a member of the Regiment"s team that was defeated in the very first FA Cup final. Fellow graduates on the same day were two of his fellow FA Cup finalists, Edmond Cotter and Herbert Muirhead, as well as Richard Ruck, who played in the 1875 FA Cup Final. Although the Engineers entered the final, played at Kennington Oval on 16 March 1872, as "favourites to win the trophy", their opponents, the Wanderers, won the match 1–0. England won the match 4–2. Ironically, he died on the morning of the 1874 FA Cup Final where his colleagues were defeated 2–0 by Oxford University.
He played football for the regiment, generally playing in defence, and was a member of the team who reached the first final of the FA Cup in 1872.