years youthyears clubs caps birth_place goals position birth_date article_title name
-- -- 1936 -- -- 1927 -- 1928 1928 -- 1934 1934 -- seaham harbour sheffield wednesday darlington barrow horden colliery welfare 0 158 63 royton , england 0 10 2 wing half , inside right 26 april 1908 fred hopkinson
 fred hopkinson
fred hopkinson

fred hopkinson -lrb- 26 april 1908 -- after 1935 -rrb- was an english footballer who made 221 appearances in the football league playing as a wing half or inside right for darlington and barrow in the 1920s and 1930s .
he was also on the books of sheffield wednesday , but without representing that club in league competition , and played non-league football for shotton , seaham harbour and horden colliery welfare .
in 1933 , hopkinson and darlington teammates harry brown , billy eden and tom halliday were members of the rest of durham xi that faced first division club sunderland in a match to celebrate the silver jubilee of the durham county football association .
hopkinson was born in royton , lancashire , the son of samuel hopkinson , a piecer , and his wife martha .
