Frank Hindley
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Frank Charles Hindley[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 2 November 1915||
Place of birth | Worksop, England | ||
Date of death | 26 March 2003[1][2] | (aged 87)||
Place of death | Worksop, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[3] | ||
Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
19??–1937 | Netherton United | ||
1937–1939 | Nottingham Forest | 6 | (3) |
1939–1947 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 10 | (4) |
1946 | Peterborough United | 6 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Frank Charles Hindley (2 November 1915 – 26 March 2003) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre forward in the Football League for Nottingham Forest and Brighton & Hove Albion either side of the Second World War.[1][3] He made his Brighton debut in the first of two appearances in the 1939–40 Football League season abandoned, along with its statistics and records, on the outbreak of war.[3] He made a few appearances for Peterborough United in the first post-war season of the Midland League,[2] then returned to Brighton for a season before retiring from the game.[3]
Hindley was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in 1915 and died there in 2003.[1] His son Peter played more than 500 Football League matches for Nottingham Forest, Coventry City and Peterborough United in the 1960s and 1970s.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Frank Hindley". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Frank Hindley". Up the Posh. Chris Wilkinson. Archived from the original on 22 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
"1945/46 Matches". Up the Posh. Chris Wilkinson. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019.
"1945/46 Squad". Up the Posh. Chris Wilkinson. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. - ^ a b c d e Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. pp. 112–113. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
- ^ "Peter Hindley". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- 1915 births
- 2003 deaths
- Footballers from Worksop
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Nottingham Forest F.C. players
- Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
- Peterborough United F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Midland Football League players
- Nottingham Forest F.C. wartime guest players
- Mansfield Town F.C. wartime guest players
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- English football forward, 1910s birth stubs