Haydn Hill

Haydn Henry Clifford Hill (4 July 1913 – 3 November 1992) was an English amateur footballer who represented Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1][2] He played as a Goalkeeper for Corinthian, Sheffield Wednesday, Yorkshire Amateur and Dulwich Hamlet.

Haydn Hill
Personal information
Full name Haydn Henry Clifford Hill
Date of birth (1913-07-04)4 July 1913
Place of birth Creswell, Derbyshire, England
Date of death 3 November 1992(1992-11-03) (aged 79)
Place of death Weymouth, Dorset, England
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1934–1935 Corinthian
1935 Sheffield Wednesday 4 (0)
1935–1936 Yorkshire Amateur
1937–1940 Dulwich Hamlet
National team
1936 Great Britain 2 (0)
1935–1938 England Amateurs 8 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He also played cricket for Dorset.

Football

Hill played for Corinthian a number of times in 1934 and 1935.[3][4][5] He played for Yorkshire Amateur in 1935 and 1936.[6]

Hill played for the England national amateur football team 8 times between 1935 and 1938. He made his debut against Wales on 19 January 1935 and played for the last time on 12 March 1938 against Scotland.[7]

Hill made 4 appearance for Sheffield Wednesday in 1935. He played twice in the 1934–35 Football League and twice in 1935–36.[8]

Hill played for Dulwich Hamlet from 1937 to 1940.[9][10] In his first season, he was in the team that beat Leyton 2–0 in the FA Amateur Cup final at Upton Park on 3 April 1937. At the end of the game he "was carried shoulder high off the field, and the tribute was well deserved."[11]

Cricket

Hill played cricket for Dorset, making 24 appearances in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship between 1948 and 1953.[12]

References
  1. "Haydn Henry HILL". FIFA. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
  2. "Haydn Hill". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
  3. "A Corinthian recovery". The Times. 5 November 1934. p. 6.
  4. "Sheffielder for Corinthians". Sheffield Independent. 22 November 1934. Retrieved 7 August 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. "Association Football – A Corinthian revival". The Times. 12 November 1935. p. 5.
  6. "Sport and Sportsmen – Northern Amateur talent". Yorkshire Evening Post. 12 October 1935. Retrieved 7 August 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. "England's Matches – Amateur – 1906-1939". England Football Online. www.englandfootballonline.com. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  8. http://www.adrianbullock.com/swfc/stats/play0254.htm
  9. "F.A. Amateur Cup". The Times. 8 February 1937. p. 6.
  10. "Reds defeated by Influenza". Surrey Mirror. 26 January 1940. Retrieved 7 August 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. "F.A. Amateur Cup". The Times. 5 April 1937. p. 5.
  12. Haydn Hill at CricketArchive
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