Billy Hood

Billy Hood
Personnel
Surname	William Hood
birthday	1st quarter 1873
place of birth	Ashton-under-Lyne ,  England
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1891-1894	Newton Heath	33 (6)
	Stalybridge Rovers
1 Only league games are given.

William "Billy" Hood (* 1st quarter 1873 in Ashton-under-Lyne ; † unknown) was an English football player .

Career

Hood came to Newton Heath during the 1891/92 season , who were still playing in the Football Alliance at the time. In his first appearance, a 10-1 win over Lincoln City , Hood was successful as a two-time goalscorer and ended the season with Newton Heath in second place behind Nottingham Forest . For the 1892/93 season , the club was added to the Football League First Division . Although in the course of the season a 10-1 win again succeeded (against Wolverhampton Wanderers ), they ended the season behind in the bottom of the table and had to compete in a so-called "test match" against the Birmingham club Small Heath for the league's whereabouts. After a 1: 1 in the first clash, in which Hood had not participated, they stayed in the First Division through a 5: 2 success in the replay - Hood was here as an outside runner on the field. When winning the Manchester Senior Cup in 1893, however, he was not part of the squad.

Also in the following season Newton Heath occupied last place in the table and had to fight again in an elimination game to stay up. Against Liverpool FC - Hood formed the left attacking side with John Peden - they lost 2-0 and were relegated to the Second Division . During the season break, Hood left the club, for which he not only played in every attacking position except that of the center forward, but was also active as an outside runner and even a defender. He then played for the Stalybridge Rovers in the league The Combination .

literature

• Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 191 .
• Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 128 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Only appearances in the Football League 1892-1894
2. ^ To-Day's Teams. Association. Manchester Cup (Final) . In: Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser , April 15, 1938, p. 11.  (paid link)