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Harry
Hooper |
West Ham
United FC
uncapped 1954-58
captain: none
minutes played: none |
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Profile |
Full name |
Harry Hooper |
Born |
14 June 1933 in Pittington, county Durham [registered as Harry, in
Durham, September 1933]. |
Source |
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Club Career |
Club(s) |
Hooper
started playing football at Hylton Colliery FC. As a junior, he joined
West Ham United FC, where his father was a trainer, and went on
to play 119 league matches, scoring 39 goals. Also appeared for a
London XI in 1955. Hooper moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers FC for £25,000
in 1956, and scored 19 goals in 39 league matches. He
then joined Birmingham City FC for £20,000 in 1957, playing 105
league matches and scoring 34 goals, before returning to his
native north-east with Sunderland AFC for a fee of £18,000 in 1960,
playing 65 league matches, scoring 16 goals. He went on
to play non-league football from 1963 with Kettering Town FC, Dunstable
Town FC and Heanor Town FC before retiring in 1968. |
Club honours |
Fairs Cup runners-up 1959-60; |
Individual honours |
Football
League (one appearance) |
Distinctions |
None |
Height/Weight |
x'
x", xst.
xlbs [x]. |
England Career |
Player number |
Did not to appear for England. |
Position(s) |
Outside-right |
Major tournaments |
World Cup Finals 1954 (reserve),
1958 (provisional party);
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Team honours |
None |
Individual honours |
England B
(five appearances, one goal, 1954-55), England U23
(six appearances, two goals, 1955). |
Distinctions |
None |
Match History
Club: West
Ham United F.C. - no full appearances |
manager: Walter Winterbottom - no full appearancesx
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Age 20 |
1 |
b |
3 March 1954 - England 1 Scotland 1, Roker Park, Sunderland |
Fr |
HD |
Start 65 |
7 |
2 |
b |
24 March 1954 - West Germany 0 England 4,
Glückauf Kampfbahn, Gelsenkirchen |
Fr |
AW |
Start |
7 |
286 |
16 May 1954 - Yugoslavia 1 England 0,
Stadion
JNA,
Beograd |
tour |
AL |
party member |
3 |
b |
16 May 1954 - Yugoslavia 2 England 1,
Centralni Stadion, Ljubljana |
AL |
Start |
7 |
287 |
23 May 1954 - Hungary 7
England 1,
Népstadion,
Budapest |
AL |
party member |
4 |
b |
23 May 1954 - Switzerland 2 England 0,
St. Jakob Park, Basel |
AL |
Start |
7 |
288 |
17 June 1954 -
Belgium
4
England 4,
Sankt Jakob Stadium, Basel |
WCF |
NW |
home reserve |
22 |
289 |
20 June 1954 -
England 2
Switzerland
0,
Wankdorfstadion, Bern |
AW |
290 |
26 June 1954 -
Uruguay
4
England 2,
Sankt Jakob Stadium, Basel |
NL |
Age 22 |
1 |
u23 |
19 January 1955 - England 5 Italy 1, Stamford Bridge, Fulham |
Fr |
HW |
Start
  |
7 |
2 |
u23 |
8 February 1955 - Scotland 0 England 6, Shawfield Park, Glasgow |
Fr |
AW |
Start |
7 |
5 |
b |
23 March 1955 - England 1 West Germany 1, Hillsborough, Sheffield |
Fr |
HD |
Start |
7 |
295 |
15 May 1955 - France
1 England 0,
Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Paris |
tour |
AL |
unused sub |
296 |
18 May 1955 -
Spain
1 England 1, Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid |
AD |
party member |
297 |
22 May 1955 - Portugal
3 England 1, Estádio do FC Porto, Oporto |
AL |
Age 25 |
England's selectors announced their forty-man party from whom the final
22 would be selected, on April 22 1958.
Of the 18 players who were cut from the party on 28 May, they included
Harry Hooper. |
Notes
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