Harry Hooper (footballer)

Football manager infobox
playername = Harry Hooper


fullname = Harold Hooper
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1933|6|14
cityofbirth = Pittington
countryofbirth = England
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
position = Winger
youthyears =
youthclubs = Hylton Colliery
West Ham United
years = 1950–1956
1956–1957
1957–1960
1960–1963
1963–1965
1965–1967
1967–19??
clubs = West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Birmingham City
Sunderland
Kettering Town
Dunstable Town
Heanor Town
caps(goals) = 066 00(4)
119 0(39)
039 0(19)
105 0(34)
065 0(16)
nationalyears = 1954–1957
1955
nationalteam = England B
England Under 23
nationalcaps(goals) = 006 00(2)
002 00(2)

Harold "Harry" Hooper (born June 14, 1933) is an English former footballer who played as a winger.

Born in Pittington, County Durham, Hooper started playing football at Hylton Colliery. As a junior, he joined West Ham United (where his father Harry Hooper Snr. was a trainer) and went on to play 119 league games for the club, scoring 39 goals.

Hooper, an England under-23 and England 'B' international, was named as a reserve for the 1954 FIFA World Cup squad but did not travel, and never won a full international cap. He represented the Football League in games against the Irish League in 1954, and the Scottish League in 1955. He also played for the London XI in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup group stage game against Basel XI on June 4, 1955, scoring the last goal of a 5–0 rout.

Hooper moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers for £25,000, and scored 19 goals in 39 league matches. He then joined Birmingham City for a fee of £20,000, spending nearly three years at the club and winning a runners-up medal in the 1960 Fairs Cup, before returning to the north-east with Sunderland for a fee of £18,000. He went on to play non-league football with Kettering Town, Dunstable Town and Heanor Town before retiring. [cite book |author=Matthews, Tony |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |year=1995 |publisher=Breedon Books |location=Derby |pages=p. 98 |isbn=978-1-85983-010-9]

References

;General
*cite book |last=Hogg |first=Tony |title=Who's Who of West Ham United |year=2005 |publisher=Profile Sports Media| id= ISBN 1 903135 50 8 |pages=101
* [http://www.lalamy.demon.co.uk/whulist.htm "West Ham Player List"] , last accessed 17 January 2007
*cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/harryhooper.htm |title=Harry Hooper |work= Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database |publisher=Neil Brown |accessdate=2008-05-06

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External links

* [http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=331&united=Harry_Hooper Harry Hooper] at westhamstats.info

Persondata
NAME = Hooper, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Hooper, Harold
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH = 1933-04-14
PLACE OF BIRTH = Pittington, County Durham, England
DATE OF DEATH =
PLACE OF DEATH =