 Soon after, Saints embarked on a policy of selling their best players to survive financially, and Chadwick grew disillusioned with both the club in particular and the game of football in general and he resigned on 16 April 1931, thereby ending a long association with the game.He left Hampshire and settled in Exeter, where in 1936 he collapsed and died whilst watching a match at Exeter's ground.His cousin, Edgar Chadwick also played for England as well as for Everton and Southampton.