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Harry
Hooper |
West Ham
United FC
uncapped
1954-58
disciplined: none
captaincies: none
minutes played: none |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Harry Hooper |
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Born |
14 June 1933 in Pittington, county Durham [registered as Harry, in
Durham, September 1933]. |
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Height/Weight |
x'
x½", xst.
xlbs [x]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club Career |
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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. |
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Club honours |
Fairs Cup runners-up 1959-60; |
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Individual honours |
Football
League (one appearance) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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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 |
Did not to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-right |
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Major tournaments |
World Cup Finals 1954 (reserve),
1958 (provisional squad);
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
England U23
(six appearances, two goals), England B
(two appearances, two goals). |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Harry Hooper - Career Statistics |
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Apps |
Comp.
Apps |
Mins. |
Goals |
Goals
Av.min |
Comp.
Goals |
Capt. |
Disc. |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0
min |
0 |
none |
none |
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Due to the fact that
many matches rarely stuck to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time
for injuries, errors and substitutions. The minutes here
given can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only
an approximation. |
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Harry Hooper
- Match History |
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Club: West
Ham United F.C. - 0 full caps |
Coach: Walter
Winterbottom - 0
full capsx
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Age 21 |
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288 |
17 June 1954 -
Belgium
4
England 4,
Sankt Jakob Stadium, Basel |
WCF |
NW |
reserve squad member |
19 |
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- |
289 |
20 June 1954 -
England 2
Switzerland
0,
Wankdorfstadion, Bern |
AW |
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- |
290 |
26 June 1954 -
Uruguay
4
England 2,
Sankt Jakob Stadium, Basel |
NL |
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Age 22 |
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5 |
b |
23 March 1955 - England B 1 West Germany B 1, Hillsborough, Sheffield |
Fr |
HD |
Start |
7 |
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Age 25 |
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England's selectors announced their forty-man squad from whom the final
22 would be selected, on April 22 1958.
Of the 18 players who were cut from the squad on 28 May, they included
Harry Hooper. |
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Notes
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