Joe Hulme

Joe Hulme
Personnel
Surname	Joseph Harold Anthony Hulme
birthday	August 26, 1904
place of birth	Stafford ,  England
date of death	September 27, 1991
Place of death	Winchmore Hill ,  England
position	Winger (right)
Juniors
Years	station
	Stafford YMCA
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1922-1924	York city	31 00(3)
1924-1926	Blackburn Rovers	73 00(6)
1926-1938	Arsenal FC	333 (107)
1938-1939	Huddersfield Town	8 00(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1927-1933	England	9 00(4)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1945-1949	Tottenham Hotspur
1 Only league games are given.

Joseph Harold Anthony "Joe" Hulme (born August 26, 1904 in Stafford , † September 27, 1991 in Winchmore Hill ) was an English football and cricket player .

life and career

Stafford-born Joe Hulme usually played in the position of right winger . He began his career outside of professional football when he joined York City in 1923 . As early as February 1924 he moved to the Blackburn Rovers and was employed at Ewood Park for the following two seasons. After 74 championship games and six goals, he was one of the first engagements of legendary Arsenal coach Herbert Chapman in 1926 . With his above-average ball safety and speed, Hulme should be a constant in the game of Arsenal and spend twelve seasons there. He became an important part of the extremely successful Arsenal team of the 1930s.

On February 6, 1926, Hulme made his debut away game at Leeds United , was a regular for the remainder of the season and was nominated for a selection of the Football League . In the following season he continued to develop positively and came on April 2, 1927 in the English national team against Scotland in Hampden Park to his debut. In total, he should complete nine international matches between 1927 and 1933. Also in 1927, Hulme reached the FA Cup final with Arsenal FC and lost 1-0 to Cardiff City after a goalkeeping error by Dan Lewis .

Until the 1932/33 season, Hulme was the first choice on the attacking right wing and formed an effective duo on the winger positions , especially with Cliff Bastin, who was committed in 1929 . Both Hulme on the right and Bastin on the left played their strengths in speed for the good of the team and were supported with assists by the attacking central midfielder Alex James . Both wingers also developed a great goal risk and after 18 goals in the 1931/32 season, Hulme scored another 20 goals the following year (including three each in the games against Sunderland and Middlesbrough ). It was also the time of big title wins for Arsenal and after winning the FA Cup in 1930, Hulme won the English championship with his club in 1931 and 1933.

Due to injuries, Hulme only made eight appearances in the 1933/34 season (but scored five goals), which was not enough to get the official medal in Arsenal's title defense. He returned, came in the championship season 1934/35 on 16 missions, but the injuries and the lack of form had meanwhile meant that he did not have a regular place and now had to share it with Pat Beasley and Alf Kirchen . In the 1935/36 season he came to 28 league games and defeated Sheffield United 1-0 in the FA Cup final . This made him the only player to appear in the club's first four FA Cup finals.

In his last two years for Arsenal Hulme was only sporadically in the team, which was expressed in the only ten games in 1½ years. He played his last game on December 18, 1937 against Liverpool . He scored a total of 125 goals in 374 games for the Gunners, making him the eighth best goalscorer in the club's history. He finally let his career end in January 1938 at Huddersfield Town , where he even came again to an FA Cup final (0-1 against Preston North End ) and then finally retired from active football.

In addition to football, Hulme was also active in cricket and played a total of 225 games for the Middlesex County Cricket Club as a batsman and bowler between 1929 and 1939 .

After World War II , during which he worked as a police officer, Hulme was coached by Tottenham Hotspur in 1946 . During his tenure until 1949 he could not record any notable successes, but formed the basic structure of the team that was to win the English championship in 1951. He then turned away from the football business completely and worked quite successfully as a journalist in the period that followed .

He died in 1991 at the age of 87.

literature

• Jeff Harris, Tony Hogg (ed.): Arsenal Who's Who . Independent UK Sports, 1995, ISBN 1-899429-03-4 .
• Joyce, Michael: Football League Players' Records. 1888 to 1939. 4Edge, 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 133 .

Web links

• Profile on Cricinfo