Hugh Roberts (footballer)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Hugh Pierce Roberts[1] | ||
Date of birth | 14 October 1882 | ||
Place of birth | Rhyl, Wales | ||
Date of death | 5 December 1969[2] | (aged 87)||
Position(s) | Outside right | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Port Sunlight | |||
St Helens Recreation | |||
1908–1909 | Southport Central | ||
1909–1913 | Leeds City | 108 | (13) |
1913–1914 | Scunthorpe & Lindsey United | ||
1914–1915 | Luton Town | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Hugh Roberts (14 October 1882 – 5 December 1969) was a Welsh professional football outside right, best remembered for his four years in the Football League with Leeds City.[2][1][3]
Personal life
Roberts' had a wife and four children and his brothers Albert and Dick were also footballers.[2][4] Roberts served with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.[5] He was unable to return to football after he sustained a fractured ankle in an accident in France in September 1918.[2]
Career statistics
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Leeds City | 1909–10[6] | Second Division | 24 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6 |
1910–11[6] | 35 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 36 | 5 | ||
1911–12[6] | 38 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 3 | ||
1912–13[6] | 11 | 1 | — | 11 | 1 | |||
Career total | 108 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 112 | 15 |
References
- ^ a b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 247. ISBN 190589161X.
- ^ a b c d "Private Hugh Pierce Roberts | Great War Stories". www.worldwar1luton.com. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ "Player Details". Port Online. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ^ "The Definitive History of Leeds United – Review of 1910/11 Part 1 – Play up, Ireland!". www.mightyleeds.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ "The Footballers' Battalions". www.football-league.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Leeds United F.C. History". www.ozwhitelufc.net.au. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
Categories:
- Welsh footballers
- English Football League players
- Association football outside forwards
- British Army soldiers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Middlesex Regiment soldiers
- Southport F.C. players
- Leeds City F.C. players
- Southern Football League players
- Scunthorpe United F.C. players
- Luton Town F.C. players
- 1882 births
- Sportspeople from Rhyl
- 1969 deaths
- Welsh football biography stubs