Resuming for Everton after the War in 1919, he played a further seven seasons and won his first cap for England against Wales in a 2-1 defeat at Highbury in March 1920, winning a total of 8 caps between 1920 and October 1924, -
Sam Chedgzoy was the man directly responsible for a major change in the game’s laws. An intelligent man who was never scared to challenge authority, he discovered a glaring loophole in the laws and proceeded to exploit it during a match at White Hart Lane in 1924. A new rule had been introduced so that a goal could be scored direct from a corner. Chedgzoy took a corner by dribbling along the by-line as members of both sides looked on in astonishment. They saw Chegzoy hammer the ball into the net and score a goal which led to a rule change. Notably Arsenal’s John Rutherford then also scored in the same manner in the same match. Twelve months later football’s hierarchy introduced a rule whereby the taker of a corner could only play the ball once before a second player had touched it.