[go: up one dir, main page]
Jump to content

Sam Hardy (footballer): Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Line 45: Line 45:
In 1902, [[Chesterfield F.C.|Chesterfield]] manager Jack Hoskin beat [[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]] to sign Hardy, doing so under a lamp post in [[Newbold, Derbyshire|Newbold]].<ref name="ChesterfieldProfile" /> Hardy, something of a shrewd character, wouldn't sign the forms until Hoskin promised to pay him 18 shillings when the original offer was five shillings.<ref name = lwas >{{cite book | first = Stuart | last = Basson | title = Lucky Whites and Spireites | year = 1998 | page = 80 | isbn = 1874427-03-8}}</ref> Hardy soon gained himself a reputation for being unfazeable and it wasn't long before he started attracting the attention of the top clubs in the country.
In 1902, [[Chesterfield F.C.|Chesterfield]] manager Jack Hoskin beat [[Derby County F.C.|Derby County]] to sign Hardy, doing so under a lamp post in [[Newbold, Derbyshire|Newbold]].<ref name="ChesterfieldProfile" /> Hardy, something of a shrewd character, wouldn't sign the forms until Hoskin promised to pay him 18 shillings when the original offer was five shillings.<ref name = lwas >{{cite book | first = Stuart | last = Basson | title = Lucky Whites and Spireites | year = 1998 | page = 80 | isbn = 1874427-03-8}}</ref> Hardy soon gained himself a reputation for being unfazeable and it wasn't long before he started attracting the attention of the top clubs in the country.


[[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] manager [[Tom Watson (football manager)|Tom Watson]] had witnessed him play against his side in a 2nd Division fixture at [[Anfield]] and although Liverpool won the match 6–1, Watson remembered that if it hadn't been for the performance of Hardy that day, Liverpool could well have gone on to record their biggest-ever win.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rippon |first1=Anton |date=2020 |title=Liverpool: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives |publisher=Pen & Sword White Owl |location=Barnsley |page=33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9hIZEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 |via=Google Books |access-date=1 August 2024}}</ref> After 77 appearances, in which Hardy kept 30 clean-sheets, Watson approached both Chesterfield and Hardy and signed him for £500 in May 1905.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goalkeepersaredifferent.com/keepers/goalkeeping-greats.html |title=Goalkeeping Greats: Sam Hardy |last1=Andrews |first1=Neil |website=Goalkeepers Are Different |access-date=3 August 2024}}</ref> After [[Ned Doig]] had begun the season as number 1, Hardy came in to make his debut in the ninth game of the campaign on 21 October 1905 at Anfield in a league match against [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]]. Liverpool won the game 4–1 and Hardy established himself as the Reds number 1.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.11v11.com/matches/liverpool-v-nottingham-forest-21-october-1905-56659/ |title=Liverpool v Nottingham Forest, 21 October 1905 |via=11v11.com |access-date=2 August 2024}}</ref>
[[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] manager [[Tom Watson (football manager)|Tom Watson]] had witnessed him play against his side in a 2nd Division fixture at [[Anfield]] and although Liverpool won the match 6–1, Watson remembered that if it hadn't been for the performance of Hardy that day, Liverpool could well have gone on to record their biggest-ever win.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rippon |first1=Anton |date=2020 |title=Liverpool: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives |publisher=Pen & Sword White Owl |location=Barnsley |page=33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9hIZEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 |via=Google Books |access-date=1 August 2024}}</ref> After 77 appearances, in which Hardy kept 30 clean-sheets, Watson approached both Chesterfield and Hardy and signed him in May 1905.<ref>{{cite news |title=Important Capture By Liverpool. Sam Hardy Signed On |newspaper=Liverpool Evening Express |date=18 May 1905 |page=7 |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> The transfer offer was originally £300, plus a friendly for Chesterfield against Liverpool. But the friendly never took place, and so Liverpool raised their offer and bought Sam Hardy for £340.<ref name="ChesterfieldProfile" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/Profile/652 |title=Players - Sam Hardy: Player Profile |via=LFCHistory.net |access-date=6 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Transfers/BySeason/91 |title=Transfers for the 1905-1906 season |via=LFCHistory.net |access-date=6 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Managers/Manager/Profile/2 |title=Managers: Tom Watson: Players bought |via=LFCHistory.net |access-date=6 August 2024}}</ref> After [[Ned Doig]] had begun the season as number 1, Hardy came in to make his debut in the ninth game of the campaign on 21 October 1905 at Anfield in a league match against [[Nottingham Forest F.C.|Nottingham Forest]]. Liverpool won the game 4–1 and Hardy established himself as the Reds number 1.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.11v11.com/matches/liverpool-v-nottingham-forest-21-october-1905-56659/ |title=Liverpool v Nottingham Forest, 21 October 1905 |via=11v11.com |access-date=2 August 2024}}</ref>


By the end of his first season he had bagged a [[Football League First Division]] championship medal as Liverpool won their second title in five years. Hardy made 30 league (and 5 cup) appearances during the [[1905–06 in English football|1905–06]] season as the Reds beat [[Preston North End F.C.|Preston North End]] by four points in the two points for a win system.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.11v11.com/players/sam-hardy-45458/ |title=Sam Hardy: Club Matches: Liverpool |via=11v11.com |access-date=2 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.11v11.com/teams/liverpool/tab/leagueTables/1906/ |title=Liverpool league performance history: League Division One table at close of 1905-06 season |via=11v11.com |access-date=2 August 2024}}</ref>
By the end of his first season he had bagged a [[Football League First Division]] championship medal as Liverpool won their second title in five years. Hardy made 30 league (and 5 cup) appearances during the [[1905–06 in English football|1905–06]] season as the Reds beat [[Preston North End F.C.|Preston North End]] by four points in the two points for a win system.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.11v11.com/players/sam-hardy-45458/ |title=Sam Hardy: Club Matches: Liverpool |via=11v11.com |access-date=2 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.11v11.com/teams/liverpool/tab/leagueTables/1906/ |title=Liverpool league performance history: League Division One table at close of 1905-06 season |via=11v11.com |access-date=2 August 2024}}</ref>

Revision as of 08:12, 6 August 2024

Sam Hardy
Personal information
Full name Sam Hardy[1]
Date of birth (1882-08-26)26 August 1882[2]
Place of birth Newbold, England[3]
Date of death 24 October 1966(1966-10-24) (aged 84)[3]
Place of death Chesterfield, England
Height 5 ft 9+1⁄2 in (1.77 m)[4]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1898–1900 Newbold Church School
1900–1903 Newbold White Star
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1903–1905 Chesterfield 71[5] (0)
1905–1912 Liverpool 219[6] (0)
1912–1921 Aston Villa 159[5] (0)
1921–1925 Nottingham Forest 102[5] (0)
Total 551[7] (0)
International career
1907–1920 England 21[8] (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sam Hardy (26 August 1882 – 24 October 1966) was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Football career

In 1902, Chesterfield manager Jack Hoskin beat Derby County to sign Hardy, doing so under a lamp post in Newbold.[9] Hardy, something of a shrewd character, wouldn't sign the forms until Hoskin promised to pay him 18 shillings when the original offer was five shillings.[10] Hardy soon gained himself a reputation for being unfazeable and it wasn't long before he started attracting the attention of the top clubs in the country.

Liverpool manager Tom Watson had witnessed him play against his side in a 2nd Division fixture at Anfield and although Liverpool won the match 6–1, Watson remembered that if it hadn't been for the performance of Hardy that day, Liverpool could well have gone on to record their biggest-ever win.[11] After 77 appearances, in which Hardy kept 30 clean-sheets, Watson approached both Chesterfield and Hardy and signed him in May 1905.[12] The transfer offer was originally £300, plus a friendly for Chesterfield against Liverpool. But the friendly never took place, and so Liverpool raised their offer and bought Sam Hardy for £340.[9][13][14][15] After Ned Doig had begun the season as number 1, Hardy came in to make his debut in the ninth game of the campaign on 21 October 1905 at Anfield in a league match against Nottingham Forest. Liverpool won the game 4–1 and Hardy established himself as the Reds number 1.[16]

By the end of his first season he had bagged a Football League First Division championship medal as Liverpool won their second title in five years. Hardy made 30 league (and 5 cup) appearances during the 1905–06 season as the Reds beat Preston North End by four points in the two points for a win system.[17][18]

In 1907, Hardy caught the eye of the Football Association committee who gave him his England debut on 16 February at Goodison Park; Ireland were the opponents and Hardy gained his first clean-sheet as England won 1–0.[19]

Hardy became one of the best goalkeepers of his generation over the next few seasons and by the time he was allowed to leave Anfield in 1912 he had earned himself the nickname 'Safe and Steady Sam'.[20] He had made 240 appearances between the sticks for the Reds, which included 63 clean-sheets.[21][22] Hardy was then transferred to Aston Villa in June 1912.[23][24] During his time at Aston Villa he won two FA Cups in 1913 and 1920.[25]

Like so many other professionals, his career was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. Hardy kept his eye in during the conflict playing for his own club, Villa, four times, along with Plymouth Argyle, and Nottingham Forest.[7]

In 1921 he left Villa after making 183 appearances.[26] He joined Nottingham Forest in August 1921.[27] The transfer fee was £1000, and Hardy helped them to the Second Division title by the end of his first season at the club in 1922.[28] He played his last game for Forest on 4 October 1924, after making 109 appearances for the team.[7][29]

By the end of his international days, Hardy had played for 13 years as England's goalkeeper, earning himself 21 caps.[30] He had seven clean sheets for the national team.[31]

Sam Hardy retired in 1925.[32] Upon retirement, he became a publican, keeping pubs and billiard halls in the Chesterfield area and remained so until his death aged 84 on 24 October 1966.[9][33]

Charlie Buchan regarded Sam Hardy as the best goalkeeper that he had ever played against.[33] Billy Walker and Herbert Chapman regarded Hardy as the best goalkeeper that they had seen.[28][34] In 1998 Hardy appeared on the BBC's Football League 100 Legends list.[35] He also was voted in at No. 94 in the official Liverpool Football Club web site poll.[36][37]

Personal life

Hardy was a relative of Nottingham Forest manager Stan Hardy.[38] His son Jack Hardy, grandson Sam, nephew Edgar and cousins Ernest and Harry all became footballers.[39] He served as an ordinary seaman in the Royal Navy during the First World War.[1]

Honours

Newbold White Star

  • Byron Cup: 1901–02[9]

Liverpool

Aston Villa

Nottingham Forest

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Samuel Hardy | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  2. ^ "FreeREG database - Sam Hardy Baptism: St John the Evangelist, Newbold, Derbyshire, 2 January 1883. Reg No.1504". FreeREG. Free UK Genealogy. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Chesterfield FC: Player-based information – 1899–1909". Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  4. ^ Trentsider (21 August 1922). "Few big transfers in the First Division of the Football League. Nottingham Forest". Athletic News. Manchester. p. 5.
  5. ^ a b c "Players - Sam Hardy: Appearances: Other Clubs". Retrieved 4 August 2024 – via LFCHistory.net.
  6. ^ "Players - Sam Hardy: Appearances". Retrieved 4 August 2024 – via LFCHistory.net.
  7. ^ a b c "Sam Hardy". Retrieved 4 August 2024 – via Football And The First World War.
  8. ^ "FA Legacy Number 321: Sam Hardy". Retrieved 4 August 2024 – via Englandstats.com.
  9. ^ a b c d e "Chesterfield | Club | Past Players | Past Players | Sam Hardy". Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  10. ^ Basson, Stuart (1998). Lucky Whites and Spireites. p. 80. ISBN 1874427-03-8.
  11. ^ Rippon, Anton (2020). Liverpool: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives. Barnsley: Pen & Sword White Owl. p. 33. Retrieved 1 August 2024 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Important Capture By Liverpool. Sam Hardy Signed On". Liverpool Evening Express. 18 May 1905. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  13. ^ "Players - Sam Hardy: Player Profile". Retrieved 6 August 2024 – via LFCHistory.net.
  14. ^ "Transfers for the 1905-1906 season". Retrieved 6 August 2024 – via LFCHistory.net.
  15. ^ "Managers: Tom Watson: Players bought". Retrieved 6 August 2024 – via LFCHistory.net.
  16. ^ "Liverpool v Nottingham Forest, 21 October 1905". Retrieved 2 August 2024 – via 11v11.com.
  17. ^ "Sam Hardy: Club Matches: Liverpool". Retrieved 2 August 2024 – via 11v11.com.
  18. ^ "Liverpool league performance history: League Division One table at close of 1905-06 season". Retrieved 2 August 2024 – via 11v11.com.
  19. ^ Goodwin, Chris; Isherwood, Glen (29 November 2022). "England Match No.89 - Ireland - 16 February 1907". England Football Online. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  20. ^ Williams, John (1 April 2011). Reds: Liverpool Football Club – The Biography. Random House. ISBN 9781845969578.
  21. ^ "Appearances by Sam Hardy under Tom Watson". Retrieved 3 August 2024 – via LFCHistory.net.
  22. ^ "Players - Sam Hardy: Clean sheets per season". Retrieved 3 August 2024 – via LFCHistory.net.
  23. ^ "Villa's Capture. International Goalkeeper Signed On". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 15 June 1912. p. 8 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  24. ^ "Aston Villa v Chelsea, 02 September 1912". Retrieved 3 August 2024 – via 11v11.com.
  25. ^ "Sam Hardy: Club Matches: Aston Villa". Retrieved 3 August 2024 – via 11v11.com.
  26. ^ "Player#237: Sam Hardy". Retrieved 5 August 2024 – via AVFC History.co.uk.
  27. ^ "Sam Hardy Transferred. Famous Villa Goalkeeper To Play With Forest". Sporting Chronicle. 19 August 1921. p. 6 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  28. ^ a b Wright, Don (2016). Clough and Walker: Forest's Greatest Managers. Stroud: Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 19. Retrieved 5 August 2024 – via Google Books.
  29. ^ "Sam Hardy: Club Matches 1924/25". Retrieved 4 August 2024 – via World Football.net.
  30. ^ Goodwin, Chris; Isherwood, Glen (8 December 2022). "England Players – Sam Hardy". England Football Online. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  31. ^ Goodwin, Chris; Isherwood, Glen (14 July 2024). "England's Goalkeepers by Number of Clean Sheets". England Football Online. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  32. ^ "The Notts Clubs. New Men For The County And The Forest". Daily News. 4 August 1925. p. 10 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  33. ^ a b c d Simkin, John. "Sam Hardy". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  34. ^ Chapman, Herbert (2010) [1934]. Herbert Chapman on Football: The reflections of Arsenal's Greatest Manager. Downham Market: GCR Books Limited. p. 35. Retrieved 5 August 2024 – via Google Books.
  35. ^ "BBC News – Football – Legends list in full". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  36. ^ 100 Players Who Shook The Kop Archived 12 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  37. ^ Platt, Mark (25 May 2006). "100 PWSTK – No.94: Sam Hardy". Liverpool F.C. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  38. ^ "Nottingham Forest at 150: Flashback: The men that managed the Reds from 1912 to 1939". 3 November 2015. Archived from the original on 7 November 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  39. ^ "Getting Personal | Goalkeepers are Different". www.goalkeepersaredifferent.com. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sam_Hardy_(footballer)&oldid=1238899092"