Robert Hawkes

Robert Hawkes
Personnel
Surname	Robert Murray Hawkes
birthday	October 18, 1880
place of birth	Breachwood Green ,  England
date of death	September 12, 1945
Place of death	Luton ,  England
position	External rotor (left)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1901-1919	Luton Town	349 (40)
until 1920	Bedford Town
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1907-1908	England	5 0(0)
1906-1910	England (amateurs)	22 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Robert "Bob" Murray Hawkes (born October 18, 1880 in Breachwood Green , † September 12, 1945 in Luton ) was an English football player and Olympic gold medalist from 1908.

Athletic career

Hawkes learned to play soccer in local school and youth teams in Luton and henceforth worked as an amateur player. Later in his career he played 349 league games for Luton Town and was present among others in the team, in the Southern League on September 4, 1905, the very first game against Plymouth Argyle in the newly opened stadium at Kenilworth Road completed, the ended scoreless.

Hawkes, who played mostly on the left half position, came on February 16, 1907 as the first player from Luton Town to an international match for the English national team and won 1-0 against Ireland at Goodison Park . He should complete four more games for England on the occasion of a European tour in 1908, with the 4-0 victory on June 13, 1908 against Bohemia at the same time ended his international career. He was able to win all games.

At the Olympic football tournament in London in 1908 , he came with the English amateur national team , which competed as the selection of Great Britain , in all three games, scored two goals in the game against Sweden and ultimately won the gold medal. In total, Hawkes came to 22 games for the amateur selection and also represented his home in Hertfordshire.

After his time at Luton Town, Hawkes still acted for Bedford Town and retired from active sports in 1920. Then he worked - following the tradition of the city as a historical "hat metropolis" - as a straw hat manufacturer. Shortly after the end of the Second World War , he died around a month before his 65th birthday.

successes

• Olympic gold medalist: 1908

Web links

• Robert Hawkes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Bob Hawkes (1900 - 1919)" ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (lutontownlegends.com)