Harry Hall (4 May 1897 – 23 June 1924) was an English

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as an outside right in the

Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...

for Lincoln City and

Darlington Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town. In the 19th century, Darlington underwen ...

. Hall was born in 1897 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, son of Charley Hall and Harriet Ann (née Kemp). In the 1920–21 season, Hall played for

Pinxton Pinxton is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire on the eastern boundary of Nottinghamshire, England, just south of the Pinxton Interchange at Junction 28 of the M1 motorway where the A38 road meets the M1. Pinxton is part of the Bolsover ...

in the

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

Senior League. Towards the end of the season, he joined Midland League club Lincoln City on trial. Having produced a good performance for the club's reserves, he made his senior debut on 30 April 1921 against

Rotherham County Rotherham County F.C. was an English football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. They spent a number of years in the English Football League before merging with rivals Rotherham Town in 1925 to form Rotherham United. History The club w ...

. His corner led to Lincoln's opening goal in a 2–1 win that confirmed the club as champions, he was signed up for the season to come, and played in the remaining two matches of the Midland League season. For appearances by season, use Season Stats dropdown menu at foot of right-hand sidebar. Lincoln were elected to the

Third Division North The Third Division North of the Football League was a tier in the English football league system from 1921 to 1958. It ran in parallel with the Third Division South with clubs elected to the League or relegated from a higher division allocated to ...

, newly formed for 1921–22, and Hall made 16 appearances that season. He then signed for Third Division runners-up

. He played in the first half of the campaign, but by December had lost his place to Thompson Kirkham, and finished the season with one goal from 13 league appearances. Hall died of tuberculosis in 1924 at his parents' home in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. His only child, Frank, also succumbed to tuberculosis in 1927, and they are buried in the same unmarked grave in Beeston Cemetery.

References

1897 births 1924 deaths English men's footballers Men's association football wingers Lincoln City F.C. players Darlington F.C. players Midland Football League players English Football League players People from Southwell, Nottinghamshire Footballers from Nottinghamshire 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in England {{England-footy-forward-1900s-stub Burials in Nottinghamshire