Hugh Roberts (footballer)

Hugh Roberts
Personal information
Full name Hugh Pierce Roberts[1]
Date of birth 14 October 1882
Place of birth Rhyl, Wales
Date of death 5 December 1969(1969-12-05) (aged 87)[2]
Playing position Outside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Port Sunlight
St Helens Recreation
Southport Central
1909–1913 Leeds City 108 (14)
1913–1914 Scunthorpe & Lindsey United
1914–1915 Luton Town

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Hugh Roberts (14 October 1882–5 December 1969)[2] was a Welsh professional football outside right, best remembered for his four years in the Football League with Leeds City.[1]

Personal life

Roberts' had a wife and four children and his brothers Albert and Dick were also footballers.[3][2] Roberts fought with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.[4] He was unable to return to football after he sustained a fractured ankle in an accident in France in September 1918.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 247. ISBN 190589161X.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Private Hugh Pierce Roberts | Great War Stories". www.worldwar1luton.com. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
  3. "The Definitive History of Leeds United - Review of 1910/11 Part 1 - Play up, Ireland!". www.mightyleeds.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-12. line feed character in |title= at position 74 (help)
  4. "The Footballers' Battalions". www.football-league.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
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