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Harry
Hardy |
Stockport County FC
1 appearance,
0 goals against
1 clean sheet
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F
4:
A 0
100% successful
1924
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Harry Hardy
Definitely
a Harry, not a Henry... his birth, marriage and death registrations and
census returns confirm his name. |
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Birth |
14 January 1895 in Stockport, Cheshire [registered in Stockport,
March 1895]. |
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According to the 1901
census, Harry is the seventh of eight children to Thomas and Fanny. They
live at 59 Richardson Street in Stockport. His father is a bricksetters
labourer. |
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According to the 1911
census, Harry remains with his widowed mother and five of his siblings.
They now live at number 15, Richardson Street. He is a bricklayer. |
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According to the 1921 census, Harry, a brick layer, is the
second of three children still living at home with their widowed mother at
58 Charles Street in Stockport. |
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Marriage |
to Dorothy May Holt
[registered in Stockport, September 1926]. |
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According to the 1939 register, Harry, an assistant relieving officer, is
married to Dorothy M., and living at 11a Fortescue Road in Stockport. |
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Death |
17 February 1969 in Stockport, aged
74 years 34 days
[registered in Stockport, March 1969]. At rest in Stockport
Crematorium, together with his wife, who died in December 1975. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Began his junior career playing with Brentnall Street Sunday
School side, in the Stockport Sunday Schools League. Went on to play for
Alderney Edge FC, from where he joined Stockport County FC early in 1920.
At the beginning of the 1925-26 season, Hardy was being noticed, and
Newcastle nited FC were early forerunners for his signature, but instead,
after 207 league appearances, it was Everton FC, on 30
October 1925, paid £2350 transfer fee for Hardy, he made
forty league appearances, but after he had dropped to being
reserve status, he was allowed to leave for Bury FC , who signed him on 2
July 1929 and he gave up playing in 1931 after 27 league
appearances. |
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Club honours |
Football League Division Three North winners 1921-22;
Division One Champions 1927-28; |
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Individual honours |
Football League (two appearances);
FA Charity Shield
runners-up with Professionals 1925; |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9", 11st.
8lbs [1927]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of four who became the 481st
players (481) to appear
for England. 52nd goalkeeper to appear. |
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Position(s) |
Goalkeeper |
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Only match |
No. 143, 8 December 1924,
England 4
Belgium 0,
a friendly match at The Hawthorns, Sandwell, West Bromwich, aged 29 years
329 days. |
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Major tournaments |
None |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
FA Tour of Australia 1925; |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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An excellent oboist, he was a
professional musician for thirteen years, later working as a caretaker in
Stockport. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.119. |
