Kenneth Oliver Hale (18 September 1939 – 5 January 2015) was an English football player and manager. He played as an

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for Newcastle United,

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, Darlington and

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, and scored 84 goals from 420 appearances in

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. He had a brief spell as

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of Darlington in 1972, and went on to manage Hartlepool from 1974 to 1976.

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