Career
He was killed in action, days before the end of the war. He started his career at home side Worksop before transferring to on 21 June 1909. In the final, lost the replay 2-0 to Newcastle, after a 1-1 draw in the first tie.
Many newspapers, including the Manchester Guardian, praised his play in the replay.
At the end of the 1913-1914 season he transferred to Liverpool who he played a total of 3 games for before his career was interrupted by the First World War A biography of Wilfred Bartrop, entitled "Swifter than the Arrow", was published in December 2008 He joined the Royal Field Artillery as a Gunner in a Trench Mortar Battery. He was serving in Belgium when he was killed on 7 November 1918.
The opening display in an exhibition on football and the Great War at the National Football Museum, Manchester, United Kingdom (2014 to 2015) focuses on Wilfred Bartrop.