Frank Hindley

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Frank Hindley
Personal information
Full name Frank Charles Hindley[1]
Date of birth (1915-11-02)2 November 1915[1]
Place of birth Worksop, England
Date of death 26 March 2003(2003-03-26) (aged 87)[1][2]
Place of death Worksop, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[3]
Position(s) Centre forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19??–1937 Netherton United
1937–1939 Nottingham Forest 6 (3)
1939–1947 Brighton & Hove Albion 10 (4)
1946 Peterborough United 6 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Frank Charles Hindley (2 November 1915 – 26 March 2003) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre forward in the Football League for Nottingham Forest and Brighton & Hove Albion either side of the Second World War.[1][3] He made his Brighton debut in the first of two appearances in the 1939–40 Football League season abandoned, along with its statistics and records, on the outbreak of war.[3] He made a few appearances for Peterborough United in the first post-war season of the Midland League,[2] then returned to Brighton for a season before retiring from the game.[3]

Hindley was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, in 1915 and died there in 2003.[1] His son Peter played more than 500 Football League matches for Nottingham Forest, Coventry City and Peterborough United in the 1960s and 1970s.[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Frank Hindley". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Frank Hindley". Up the Posh. Chris Wilkinson. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. pp. 112–113. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
  4. ^ "Peter Hindley". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 21 February 2019.


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