Ben Hall (football player, 1879)

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Ben Hall
Personnel
Surname Benjamin Hall
birthday March 6, 1879
place of birth Ecclesfield ,  England
date of death July 18, 1963
Place of death Leicester ,  England
position Middle runner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1900-1903 Grimsby Town 39 0(4)
1903-1911 Derby County 245 (11)
1911-1912 Leicester Fosse 14 0(0)
1912 Hyde FC
1912-1913 Heywood United
1913-1915 South Shields FC
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1920-1921 Bristol Rovers
1929-1931 Loughborough Corinthians
1 Only league games are given.

Benjamin "Ben" Hall (born March 6, 1879 in Ecclesfield , † July 18, 1963 in Leicester ) was an English football player and coach. Hall played a total of 298 games in the Football League for Grimsby Town , Derby County and Leicester Fosse between 1900 and 1912 . In the season 1920/21 he was the head coach of the Bristol Rovers .

Career

Hall came from a family of footballers from which three of his brothers, Ellis , Fretwell and Harry, also became professional footballers. Hall came to Grimsby Town in September 1900 on the recommendation of Grimsby player Bill Hemingfield and received a professional contract in January 1901. In his first games for the second division , he played in various forward positions, mostly as a right half-forward, and contributed with two goals in seven inserts to win the second division championship 1900/01 and the associated promotion to the first division . After a few appearances as a defender and right wing runner in the 1901/02 season, he established himself in the 1902/03 season as a center runner at Grimsby Town. After relegation at the end of the season Hall - as well as goalkeeper Walter Whittaker - committed by the first division Derby County , where he should compensate for the departure of the Irish international Archie Goodall . Hall was considered one of the best middle runners of his time and impressed in particular with his ball control and passing skills. Hall had a reputation as a "distinguished" player who relied less on muscle strength than on his skills. He was popular with both spectators and teammates from Derby County and remained with the club even after the first division relegation in 1907.

In 1911 he moved to Leicester Fosse after 269 competitive appearances for Derby County within the Second Division , but at this point he had already lost speed and immediately lost his place on the team to Percy Hanger, who was ten years his junior . Hall then played in non-league football for Hyde FC and as a player-coach for Heywood United (both clubs in the Lancashire Combination ) before moving to South Shields in the North-Eastern League in 1913 . At South Shields he won the league championship alongside numerous other former football league players (including Irvine Thornley , Arthur Bridgett , Shirley Hubbard ) in a superior manner in 1914 and 1915, before his professional career ended when regular play was stopped as a result of the war .

During the First World War Hall was regularly active in the war-related substitute competitions for Leicester (30 missions), but also appeared in Grimsby Town, Nottingham Forest , Huddersfield Town , Lincoln City and Derby County (5 missions). After he had already acted as a trainer at Grimsby Town and Heywood United, he was responsible for training operations at Hednesford Town in the 1919/20 season .

In 1920 Hall was the first full-time manager of the Bristol Rovers , who played in the newly created Football League Third Division , for one season . In a season overshadowed by numerous injuries, he finished 10th with the team. From 1929 to 1931 he was the chief coach at Loughborough Corinthians in the Midland League . At times he contributed with a column to the local newspaper Leicester Mail and was active from 1935 as a coach at the regional football association Leicestershire FA . He was still involved in football after World War II, scouting for Southend United .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stake figures according to Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 110 .
  2. ↑ Date of birth according to Joyce, Briggs & Wherry and ENFA , Taylor & Smith states 1881 as the year of birth
  3. ^ A b c Dennis Turner, Alex White: The Breedon Book of Football Managers . Breedon Books, Derby 1993, ISBN 1-873626-32-0 , pp. 142 .
  4. ^ Rob Briggs & Dave Wherry: Mariner Men: Grimsby Town Who's Who 1892–2007 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2011, ISBN 978-0-9552949-8-3 , pp. 96 .
  5. ↑ Gerald Mortimer: The Who's Who of Derby County . Breedon Books, Derby 1992, ISBN 1-873626-31-2 , pp. 91 .
  6. ^ A b c Paul Taylor, Dave Smith: The Foxes Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Leicester City Football Club . Polar Print Group Ltd, Leicester 1995, ISBN 1-899538-06-2 , p. 169 f .
  7. ^ George Thompson: South Shields FC - The Football League Years . Yore Publications, Harefield 2000, ISBN 1-874427-43-7 , pp. 11-13 .
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Benjamin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Ecclesfield
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1963
Place of death Leicester