Jack Hill (footballer, born 1897)

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Jack Hill
Personal information
Full name John Henry Hill[1]
Date of birth (1897-03-02)2 March 1897
Place of birth Hetton-le-Hole, England
Date of death April 1972 (aged 75)[2]
Place of death Helensburgh, Scotland[2]
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)[3]
Position(s)
Centre half
Youth career
Hetton Juniors
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1919–1920 Durham City
1920–1923 Plymouth Argyle 101 (10)
1923–1928 Burnley 184 (13)
1928–1931 Newcastle United 74 (2)
1931 Bradford City 8 (1)
1931–1934 Hull City 94 (2)
International career
Southern League XI
Football League XI
 3 (0)
1925–1929 England 11 (0)
Managerial career
1934–1936 Hull City
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Henry Hill (2 March 1897 – April 1972) was an English footballer who played in his club career with various teams, including Burnley and Newcastle United between 1920 and 1934. He made 11 appearances for England, eight as captain. He subsequently played for, and then managed, Hull City.

Playing career

Early career

Hill was born at

Durham City
in 1919.

Plymouth Argyle

After a brief period, he moved in September 1920 to

then to Bristol City
.

Burnley

In May 1923, he was sold to

Football League on three occasions, he received his first England call up for a British Home Championship match in Wales on 28 February 1925. In this match he played at right-half, with Charlie Spencer in the centre. England ran out 2–1 victors, with goals from Frank Roberts.[6]

His next England call-up came against Scotland in April 1926, when he took over the No. 5 shirt, which he was to retain for the remainder of his England career. The following year, he took over the captain's armband for the match at Hampden Park, Glasgow, which England won 2–1, both goals coming from Dixie Dean.[7]

In May 1927, England went on a three-match tour of Europe. In the first match, against

Colombes Stadium in Paris. England again won convincingly, defeating France by six goals (including two each from Dean and Brown).[9]

Hill retained his place for the opening match of the

John Ball on his solitary England appearance. The position soon worsened as Hill had to retire at half time due to a "nasty" leg injury.[10] England played the rest of the match with 9 men, and went down 2–0.[11]

Hill recovered in time for the next England match, against Wales five weeks later to be played at Burnley's Turf Moor ground. The situation for England did not improve, however. Dan Tremelling replaced Hufton in goal for his solitary England appearance, whilst defenders Alf Baker (Arsenal) and Reg Osborne (Leicester City) were given their first (and only) chances at international level. England were soon behind to a goal from Wilf Lewis, and after 40 minutes Hill deflected a cross into his own net. In the second half, Roy Goodall had the chance to bring England back into the game but missed his penalty. When England finally scored, this was an own goal as Fred Keenor deflected Louis Page's corner past Bert Gray in the Welsh goal.[12] (Some sources claim that it was Gray himself who turned the ball into the net.[13])

Hill was not selected for the final match in the

Alex Jackson (3) and Alex James (2). (For an analysis of this match see Wembley Wizards.) Thus England finished the championship at the foot of the table, with three defeats – this was the first time since the commencement of the British Home Championship
that England had failed to take a single point.

Newcastle United

In October 1928, Hill moved to Newcastle United, who were looking for a replacement for Charlie Spencer. Hill had been recommended to the Newcastle board by Scottish forward Hughie Gallacher, who had come up against Hill several times at both club and international level. As local rivals Sunderland were also keen to sign Hill, Newcastle needed to pay a record transfer fee of £8,100 to secure his services.[2]

Described as being "tall and lanky" (he was 6'3"), Hill soon became Newcastle's captain and "with his willingness to move forward from defence and his quality of distribution", he was also a great favourite with the fans.[14] Unfortunately, after only a couple of seasons at St James' Park, Jack fell into dispute with Newcastle's directors, which led to his premature departure, leaving for Bradford City in June 1931 for a fee of £7,500.[14]

In May 1929, Hill had been recalled to the England team as captain for a tour of Europe when they defeated France 4–1 (two goals each from George Camsell and Edgar Kail) and Belgium 5–1, when Camsell scored another four goals, including a hat-trick in six minutes.[15] For the final match of the tour, England played Spain for the first time ever and in a closely fought match, the Spaniards prevailed by five goals to four.[16] During his England career, Hill had played 11 matches, eight as captain, with a record of six victories, one draw and four defeats.

Hull City

Hill only stayed at Bradford City until November 1931, before moving to

Third Division North
title. This was the only title won by Hill during his fifteen-year playing career.

Managerial and later career

After three seasons with Hull as a player, in March 1934 Hill took over the managerial reins from

David Menzies
who was unable to prevent Hull being relegated with only 20 points. As manager, Hill only won 24 out of 77 games, a win rate of 31.16%.

After the

Second World War, Hill returned to Hull City where he acted as club scout from 1948 to 1955.[5] He later had a spell at Scarborough, where he was in charge of their pools scheme.[2]

He retired in August 1963 and moved to Scotland where he died in Helensburgh in April 1972.[2]

Honours

Hull City

References

  1. OCLC 841581272.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  2. ^ a b c d e f "England Players – Jack Hill". www.englandfootballonline.com. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  3. ^ Centaurus (20 August 1923). "Prospects of the clubs in the First Division of the League. Burnley". Athletic News. Manchester. p. 5.
  4. ^ "'Wor' War heroes". Newcastle United Football Club. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  5. ^
    ISBN 1-905009-63-1
    .
  6. ^ "englandstats.com | 144 – Wales 1–2 England, Saturday, 28 February 1925". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  7. ^ "englandstats.com | 153 – Scotland 1–2 England, Saturday, 2 April 1927". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  8. ^ "englandstats.com | 154 – Belgium 1–9 England, Wednesday, 11 May 1927". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  9. ^ "englandstats.com | 156 – France 0–6 England, Thursday, 26 May 1927". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  10. ^ Freddi, Cris (5 September 2005). "Lions lose in Belfast". The Football Association. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 15 May 2008.
  11. ^ "englandstats.com | 157 – Ireland 2–0 England, Saturday, 22 October 1927". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  12. ^ "England 1 – 2 Wales (Match summary)". www.englandstats.com. 28 November 1927. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
  13. ISBN 978-1-86223-176-4
    .
  14. ^ a b "Hill Jack Image 7 Burnley 1925". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  15. ^ "englandstats.com | 166 – Belgium 1–5 England, Saturday, 11 May 1929". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  16. ^ "englandstats.com | 167 – Spain 4–3 England, Wednesday, 15 May 1929". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 24 October 2019.

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