Hector Cosmo Fisher (born 4 May 1901) was an English-Swiss-Thai
tennis player and
footballer.
Personal life
Fisher was born in
Myaungmya,
Burma in 1901 and baptised in Bassein,
Bengal, British India in August 1902. He was the son of Henry Cosmo-Fisher (1874–1918) and Annie Fisher.
His father was an Anglo-Indian born in Bangalore. He had a younger brother, Colin Cosmo-Fisher (1903–1964). He was described as a cosmopolitan "Burmese-Siamese-English-Swiss" athlete.
Fisher attended
Oxford University, and played tennis there before he moved to Switzerland.
Tennis
Fisher was above all an excellent tennis player. He represented Switzerland during his tennis career and played in the
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ...
in the years between 1931 and 1939. Fisher won the
Swiss Open in
Gstaad four times in 1923, 1928, 1929 and 1931. In 1925 he reached the quarter-finals of
Wimbledon
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. He won the international tennis tournament in
Wiesbaden in 1929 and an international tournament in
Basel in 1930.
Football
Fisher was also a footballer and played for
Montreux-Sports at least during the 1927–28 season.
He also played for
FC Basel 1893 in at least one league match in 1930.
Fisher joined Basel's first team during their
1930–31 season under Austrian head coach
Gustav Putzendopler
Gustav Putzendopler (16 January 1894; – 20 November 1969) was an Austrian international footballer who played for SK Rapid Wien, FC Basel and FC Mulhouse. He played in the position as midfielder.
Football career
Putzendopler started hi ...
. He played his first test game for them on 25 October 1930 at home in the
Landhof as Basel won 5–1 against
La Chaux-de-Fonds.
After playing in another test game against
Biel-Bienne
, french: Biennois(e)
, neighboring_municipalities= Brügg, Ipsach, Leubringen/Magglingen (''Evilard/Macolin''), Nidau, Orpund, Orvin, Pieterlen, Port, Safnern, Tüscherz-Alfermée, Vauffelin
, twintowns = Iserlohn (Germany)
B ...
, Fisher played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 30 November 1930 as Basel played a 2–2 draw with local team
Old Boys.
Fisher was only the second English person to play league football for the club, in fact to date he remains one of only three English players ever to play for Basel, the others being
Archibald E. Gough between 1900 and 1902 and
L. B. Trenchard Chaffey in 1901.
References
Sources
* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG.
* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
External links
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Hector Cosmo Fisher on "Basler Fussballarchiv" Website
Note
''(NB: The editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have not been able to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel.)''
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Swiss male tennis players
1901 births
Year of death missing
Alumni of the University of Oxford
FC Basel players
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Swiss men's footballers