Jimmy Hughes (soccer player, 1918)

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Jimmy Hughes
Personnel
Surname James Horace Hughes
birthday August 28, 1918
place of birth Leeds ,  England
date of death November 10, 1979
Place of death Ferndown ,  England
position defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Post Office Engineers
1946-1949 Fulham FC 1 (0)
1949 Margate FC (0)
1950–? Gorleston FC
1 Only league games are given.

James Horace "Jimmy" Hughes (born August 28, 1918 in Leeds , † November 10, 1979 in Ferndown ) was an English football player .

Career

Hughes, son of Fulham Parks Superintendent FH Hughes, received his education at Regent Street Polytechnic , with whose football team he won five titles in one year. After graduating from school, he became a telephone technician for the Post Office and played with the Post Office Engineers in the London League . During World War II , Hughes served with the rank of captain in the Royal Corps of Signals and was a noted amateur footballer. Although already associated with Fulham during the war, he came to no use for Fulham in the war-related replacement competitions. Instead, he was nominated as captain in January 1944 on the occasion of a military selection game between Northern Command and the Polish armed forces in Catterick (final score 3: 2), and in December 1944 he also represented the Northern on the occasion of a game against the Norwegian armed forces in Sunderland's Roker Park Command .

From September 1946 he was part of the squad of the capital club Fulham and made his debut in the Football League Third Division South in December 1946 together with Mark Radcliffe in a 0-1 defeat at Coventry City . The appearance remained at the same time Hughes's only competitive appearance for the first team of Fulham, in the following years he played on the reserve team as a left defender , left runner or right half-forward . In March 1949 he moved with Cliff Lloyd to the Kent League for Margate FC . There he immediately established himself as a left defender and became team captain for the 1949/50 season. Hughes left Margate for professional reasons after 27 competitive appearances at the end of 1949 and moved to Great Yarmouth .

There he joined FC Gorleston and made his debut in January 1950. In the FA Cup 1951/52 he reached the first main round with the club; against Leyton Orient , club from the Third Division South, Gorleston drew with Hughes in defense twice before being eliminated from the competition by a 4-5 defeat at London's Highbury in the second replay. In the 1952/53 season, the team won the league title in the Eastern Counties Football League , the team consisted almost entirely of professionals and on the defensive found themselves next to Hughes with goalkeeper Don Edwards (Norwich City), fellow defender Willie McCrindle (Newport County) and left runner Harry Chapman (Notts County) is another former Football League player. In the storm Jack Hunter (71 goals this season) and Tim Coleman (50 goals this season) were the guarantors that a league record was set with 114 league goals.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jimmy Hughes in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b LIEUTENANT JAMES HUGHES . In: Fulham Chronicle , January 21, 1944, p. 3.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ SHOP WINDOW RIFLED . In: Fulham Chronicle , December 1, 1944, p. 2.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ cf. Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 333 ff .
  5. ↑ OTHER MATCHES. . In: Western Morning News , January 31, 1944, p. 4.  (link with costs)
  6. ↑ FULHAM MAN AS CAPTAIN . In: The People , January 16, 1944, p. 5.  (paid link)
  7. ↑ In letter . In: Evening Despatch , November 17, 1944, p. 4.  (link subject to charge)
  8. ↑ a b Alex White: The Men Who Made Fulham Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd, Stroud 2002, ISBN 978-0-7524-2423-1 , pp. 12 .
  9. ↑ margatefootballclubhistory.com: Jimmy Hughes , accessed on April 14, 2019
  10. ↑ Flack wins battle of player coaches . In: Bury Free Press , January 20, 1950, p. 14.  (paid link)
  11. ↑ EAGLES 'CHANCE CUP EFFORTS . In: Bedfordshire Times and Independent , November 6, 1953, p. 11.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hughes, James Horace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1979
Place of death Ferndown