Harry Hooper (footballer)
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| Harry Hooper | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Harold Hooper | |
| Date of birth | June 14, 1933 | |
| Place of birth | Pittington, England | |
| Playing position | Winger | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| Hylton Colliery West Ham United |
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| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1950–1956 1956–1957 1957–1960 1960–1963 1963–1965 1965–1967 1967–19?? |
West Ham United Wolverhampton Wanderers Birmingham City Sunderland Kettering Town Dunstable Town Heanor Town |
66 (4) 119 (39) 39 (19) 105 (34) 65 (16) |
| National team | ||
| 1954–1957 1955 |
England B England Under 23 |
6 (2) 2 (2) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Harold "Harry" Hooper (born June 14, 1933) is an English former footballer who played as a winger.
Born in Pittington, County Durham, Hooper started playing football at Hylton Colliery. As a junior, he joined West Ham United (where his father Harry Hooper Snr. was a trainer) and went on to play 119 league games for the club, scoring 39 goals.
Hooper, an England under-23 and England 'B' international, was named as a reserve for the 1954 FIFA World Cup squad but did not travel, and never won a full international cap. He represented the Football League in games against the Irish League in 1954, and the Scottish League in 1955. He also played for the London XI in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup group stage game against Basel XI on June 4, 1955, scoring the last goal of a 5–0 rout.
Hooper moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers for £25,000, and scored 19 goals in 39 league matches. He then joined Birmingham City for a fee of £20,000, spending nearly three years at the club and winning a runners-up medal in the 1960 Fairs Cup, before returning to the north-east with Sunderland for a fee of £18,000. He went on to play non-league football with Kettering Town, Dunstable Town and Heanor Town before retiring.[1]
[edit] References
- General
- Hogg, Tony (2005). Who's Who of West Ham United. Profile Sports Media, 101. ISBN 1 903135 50 8.
- West Ham Player List, last accessed 17 January 2007
- Harry Hooper. Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved on 2008-05-06.
- Specific
- ^ Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books, p. 98. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
[edit] External links
- Harry Hooper at westhamstats.info
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| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Hooper, Harry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hooper, Harold |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Professional footballer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1933-04-14 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittington, County Durham, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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