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Welsh footballer

Hugh Roberts
Personal information
Full name Hugh Pierce Roberts
Date of birth 14 October 1882
Place of birth Rhyl, Wales
Date of death 5 December 1969(1969-12-05) (aged 87)
Place of death Coventry, England
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Position(s) Outside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
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St Helens Recreation
1908–1909 Southport Central 29 (5)
1909–1913 Leeds City 108 (13)
1913–1914 Scunthorpe & Lindsey United
1914–1915 Luton Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hugh Pierce Roberts (14 October 1882 – 5 December 1969) was a Welsh professional footballer, best remembered for his four years as an outside right in the Football League with Leeds City.

Personal life

Roberts' had a wife and four children and his brothers Albert and Dick were also footballers. Roberts served as a private in the Middlesex Regiment's Football Battalion during the First World War, but he was unable to return to football after sustaining a fractured ankle in an accident in France in September 1918.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Southport Central 1908–09 Lancashire Combination First Division 29 5 1 0 2 0 32 5
Leeds City 1909–10 Second Division 24 6 1 0 — 25 6
1910–11 35 4 1 1 — 36 5
1911–12 38 2 2 1 — 40 3
1912–13 11 1 — — 11 1
Total 108 13 4 2 — 112 15
Career total 137 18 5 2 2 0 144 20
  1. Appearances in Lancashire Senior Cup

References

  1. ^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 247. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  2. ^ "Private Hugh Pierce Roberts | Great War Stories". www.worldwar1luton.com. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  3. "Player Details". Port Online. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  4. "Review of 1910/11 Part 1 – Play up, Ireland!". The Definitive History of Leeds United. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  5. "Hugh Pierce Roberts | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  6. "Hugh Roberts". SFC FPA. 9 November 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Leeds City Players Details : No.62 : Roberts, Hugh Pierce (Hugh)". Leeds United F.C. History. Retrieved 12 June 2017.


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