William Hornby (soccer player)

William Hornby
Personnel
birthday	4th quarter 1899
place of birth	Blackpool or Fleetwood ,  England
position	Half forward , center forward
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1921	Fleetwood FC
1921-1922	Wigan Borough	1 (1)
1922–?	Fleetwood FC
1 Only league games are given.

William Hornby (4th quarter 1899 in Blackpool or Fleetwood , † after 1922) was an English football player .

Career

Coming from the nearby Blackpool Hornby belonged from the summer of 1919 to the squad of the club Fleetwood FC playing in the Lancashire Combination . There he played regularly as a right half-forward over the next two years .

In August 1921 Hornby came to former league rivals Wigan Borough , who competed in the newly formed Football League Third Division North in the 1921/22 season. He made his only competitive appearance on the second match day when he played the center-forward position in place of the injured James Twiss in the first Football League home game in the club's history and scored to equalize in the 1: 4 defeat against Nelson FC shortly after the half-time break . Apart from the goal, he remained relatively inconspicuous according to the press and was subsequently no longer considered in the first team. After the season he is said to have returned to Fleetwood.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Garth Dykes: Wigan Borough in the Football League: A Complete Record and Who's Who 1921-1931 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2011, ISBN 978-1-905891-53-5 , pp. 49 .
2. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on August 16, 2020
3. ↑ OLD AND NEW SERVANTS. . In: Lancashire Evening Post , August 28, 1919, p. 5.  (paid link)
4. ↑ FLEETWOOD FOOTBALL. . In: Lancashire Evening Post , August 17, 1920, p. 4.  (paid link)
5. ↑ HURST v. FLEETWOOD. . In: Lancashire Evening Post , March 28, 1921, p. 3.  (paid link)
6. ↑ WIGAN'S BIG VENTURE. . In: Lancashire Evening Post , August 24, 1921, p. 5.  (paid link)