Henry Howell (29 November 1890 – 9 July 1932) was an English

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and

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er who played five cricket Test matches from 1920 to 1924. He also played professional football for

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, Northfleet,

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, and

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Cricket career

Born in

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, Warwickshire, Howell was a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman who played county cricket for

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.Harry Howell stats at cricinfo
/ref> In 1922, he helped his side to restrict

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to just 15 runs in one innings; Howell took six wickets for just seven runs. He took 152 first-class wickets in the 1923 season, including the first

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in an innings for a Warwickshire bowler. He played five Tests for

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. His first Test was at the

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during England's 1920–21 Ashes series with Australia. His last Test appearance was in August 1924 at

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against

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. He took seven wickets in his Test career. His younger brother

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also played for Warwickshire between 1919 and 1922.

Football career

Howell played for Burslem Swifts and

during

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, as well as guesting for both

and

. At Stoke he played in the 1916–17 and 1917–18 seasons, where he made 57 appearances, scoring 42 goals. He scored a

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past Manchester City in a 5–0 win at the

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on 9 April 1917, and then again hit a hat-trick in a 9–0 home win over

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on 16 March 1918. Despite only being a guest, he was Port Vale's top-scorer during the 1918–19 season with nine goals in eleven appearances. He returned to "Wolves" in the summer of 1919, and later was signed to

(without making any first-team appearances), Northfleet,

(on trial) and

. He made a total of 38 Football League appearances with Wolves and three with Accrington Stanley. Howell died 9 July 1932 in

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, Birmingham.

Football career statistics

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Howell, Harry 1890 births 1932 deaths Cricketers from Birmingham, West Midlands Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players Port Vale F.C. wartime guest players Stoke City F.C. wartime guest players Southampton F.C. players Northfleet United F.C. players Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891) players Mansfield Town F.C. players English Football League players England Test cricketers English cricketers Warwickshire cricketers North v South cricketers Players cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Cricketers who have taken ten wickets in an innings English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 A. E. R. Gilligan's XI cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club Australian Touring Team cricketers