Shirley Hubbard

Shirley Hubbard
Personal information
Full name Shirley Hubbard[1]
Date of birth (1885-02-18)18 February 1885
Place of birth Leicester, England
Date of death 11 February 1962(1962-02-11) (aged 76)
Place of death Houghton on the Hill, England
Playing position Inside right, centre forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1902–1903 St. Andrew's
1903–1905 Leicestershire Regiment
1905–1906 Leicester Imperial
1906–1913 Leicester Fosse 137 (36)
1913–1914 Darlington
South Shields
1915 → Bloxwich Strollers (guest) 1
1916 → Port Vale (guest) 1 (0)
1916 → Leicester Fosse (guest) 4 (0)
1917 → Birmingham (guest) 1 (0)
1918 → Leicester Fosse (guest) 13 (5)
1919–1920 Leicester City 3 (1)
1920–192? Ashby Town
Teams managed
1920–192? Ashby Town (player-manager)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Shirley Hubbard (18 February 1885 – 22 February 1962) was an English professional football inside right and manager who made 140 appearances in the Football League for Leicester City.[1] He was later player-manager of Ashby Town.

Playing career

After beginning his career with local Leicester clubs, Second Division club Leicester Fosse bought Hubbard out of the army to sign him on 22 April 1907.[1][2] Over the course of the next six years he made 151 appearances and scored 39 goals for the club and helped the Foxes to promotion to the First Division at the end of the 1907–08 season.[3] Hubbard departed Filbert Street for North Eastern League club Darlington in May 1913 and was playing for South Shields upon the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.[1][4] During the war, he guested for Port Vale, Bloxwich Strollers, Birmingham and on two occasions for Leicester Fosse.[1][3][5] Hubbard briefly resumed his professional career with the reformed Leicester City during the 1919–20 season,[3] before departing to take over as player-manager at Leicestershire Senior League club Ashby Town.[4] He later returned to Leicester City as a coach prior to the Second World War.[4]

Personal life

As of 1901, Hubbard was working as a shoe finisher and enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment on 14 July 1903.[4][2] He was posted to India and served until April 1907.[2] In November 1914, three months after the outbreak of the First World War, he re-enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment and was sent to the Western Front in February 1915.[4] Hubbard saw action at Hooge, the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the Somme and during the Hundred Days Offensive.[4] After his retirement from football, Hubbard remained on the sports scene and wrote a column in the local Leicestershire press.[4]

Honours

Leicester Fosse

Career statistics

Club Season Division League FA Cup Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Leicester Fosse 1906–07[3]Second Division62— 62
1907–08[3]25720277
1908–09[3]First Division21820238
1909–10[3]Second Division269423011
1910–11[3]26430294
1911–12[3]26331294
1912–13[3]730073
Total 1373614315139
Leicester City 1919–20[3]Second Division310031
Leicester City/Fosse total 140 37 14 3 154 40
Career total 140 37 14 3 154 40

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 145. ISBN 190589161X.
  2. 1 2 3 "Shirley Hubbard | Service Record | Football and the First World War". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Shirley Hubbard | Leicester City career stats – FoxesTalk". FoxesTalk. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Leicester Fosse And The First World War: Part 22". Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 144. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
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