Wilfred Hall (14 October 1934 – August 2007) was a

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 ...

who played in the Football League for

Ipswich Town Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. They play in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn profession ...

and Stoke City.

Career

Hall was born in

Haydock Haydock is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 11,416 Haydock's historic area covers the Haydock electoral ward and a section of the Blackbrook ward. Haydo ...

, St. Helens and played football with

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in the

Lancashire Combination The Lancashire Combination was a football league founded in the North West of England in 1891–92. It absorbed the Lancashire League in 1903. In 1968 the Combination lost five of its clubs to the newly formed Northern Premier League. In 1982 it ...

. He impressed scouts from Football League side Stoke City and he joined them for a small fee. He made his debut during Stoke's epic

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third round tie against

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. He played in all five matches against the "Shakers" in what is the longest cup match between two professional sides, in total it took 9 hours and 22 minutes before Stoke finally won. During this time at Stoke Hall was used as back up to first choice Bill Robertson and only had a sustained run in the side in the 1957–58 season. He joined

in 1960 where he was again second choice this time to Roy Bailey. He left Ipswich in 1963 and went on to play for

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Career statistics

Source:

Honours

; Ipswich Town *

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champions: 1960–61

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Wilf English men's footballers Stoke City F.C. players Ipswich Town F.C. players English Football League players 1934 births 2007 deaths Macclesfield Town F.C. players Altrincham F.C. players Men's association football goalkeepers Earlestown F.C. players Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens Footballers from Merseyside