Hugh Roberts (footballer)

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Hugh Roberts

| fullname = Hugh Pierce Roberts

| birth_date = 14 October 1882

| birth_place = Rhyl, Wales

| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|12|5|1882|10|14|df=y}}

| death_place = Coventry, England

| height = 5ft 4in

| position = Outside right

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| clubs1 = Port Sunlight

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| clubs2 = St Helens Recreation

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| years3 = 1908–1909

| clubs3 = Southport Central

| caps3 = 29

| goals3 = 5

| years4 = 1909–1913

| clubs4 = Leeds City

| caps4 = 108

| goals4 = 13

| years5 = 1913–1914

| clubs5 = Scunthorpe & Lindsey United

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| years6 = 1914–1915

| clubs6 = Luton Town

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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.{{Cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=Tony Brown |year=2012 |isbn=978-1905891610 |location=Nottingham |page=247}}{{Cite news |date=9 November 2016 |title=Player Details |language=en-GB |work=Port Online |url=https://www.southportfootballclub.co.uk/players/player-details/?id=2059 |access-date=8 January 2017}}

Personal life

Roberts' had a wife and four children and his brothers Albert and Dick were also footballers.{{Cite web |title=Private Hugh Pierce Roberts {{!}} Great War Stories |url=http://www.worldwar1luton.com/individual/private-hugh-pierce-roberts |access-date=12 December 2015 |website=www.worldwar1luton.com}}{{Cite web |title=Review of 1910/11 Part 1 – Play up, Ireland! |url=http://www.mightyleeds.co.uk/seasons/191011.htm |access-date=12 December 2015 |website=The Definitive History of Leeds United}} Roberts served as a private in the Middlesex Regiment's Football Battalion during the First World War,{{Cite web |title=Hugh Pierce Roberts {{!}} Service Record |url=https://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/hugh-pierce-roberts-service-record/ |access-date=30 September 2020 |website=Football and the First World War |language=en-US}} but he was unable to return to football after sustaining a fractured ankle in an accident in France in September 1918.

Career statistics

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" \|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition ! rowspan="2" \|Club ! rowspan="2" \|Season ! colspan="3" \|League ! colspan="2" \|FA Cup ! colspan="2" \|Other ! colspan="2" \|Total
Division !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals !Apps !Goals
Southport Central \|1908–09{{Cite web \|title=Hugh Roberts \|url=https://www.southportfootballclub.co.uk/players/player-details/?id=2059&season_id_page=103&season_name_page=1908/1909 \|access-date=30 September 2020 \|website=SFC FPA \| date=9 November 2016 \|language=en-GB}} \|Lancashire Combination First Division \|29 \|5 \|1 \|0 \|2Appearances in Lancashire Senior Cup \|0 \|32 \|5
rowspan="5" \|Leeds City \|1909–10{{Cite web \|title=Leeds City Players Details : No.62 : Roberts, Hugh Pierce (Hugh) \|url=http://www.ozwhitelufc.net.au/leeds_stats/leeds_city_player_details/RobertsHP_LCFC.php \|access-date=12 June 2017 \|website=Leeds United F.C. History}} \| rowspan="4" \|Second Division \|24 \|6 \|1 \|0 \| colspan="2" \|— \|25 \|6
1910–11 \|35 \|4 \|1 \|1 \| colspan="2" \|— \|36 \|5
1911–12 \|38 \|2 \|2 \|1 \| colspan="2" \|— \|40 \|3
1912–13 \|11 \|1 \| colspan="2" \|— \| colspan="2" \|— \|11 \|1
colspan="2" \|Total !108 !13 !4 !2 ! colspan="2" \|— !112 !15
colspan="3" \|Career total !137 !18 !5 !2 !2 !0 !144 !20

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|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

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Southport Central

|1908–09{{Cite web |title=Hugh Roberts |url=https://www.southportfootballclub.co.uk/players/player-details/?id=2059&season_id_page=103&season_name_page=1908/1909 |access-date=30 September 2020 |website=SFC FPA | date=9 November 2016 |language=en-GB}}

|Lancashire Combination First Division

|29

|2Appearances in Lancashire Senior Cup

|32

rowspan="5" |Leeds City

|1909–10{{Cite web |title=Leeds City Players Details : No.62 : Roberts, Hugh Pierce (Hugh) |url=http://www.ozwhitelufc.net.au/leeds_stats/leeds_city_player_details/RobertsHP_LCFC.php |access-date=12 June 2017 |website=Leeds United F.C. History}}

| rowspan="4" |Second Division

|24

| colspan="2" |—

|25

1910–11

|35

| colspan="2" |—

|36

1911–12

|38

| colspan="2" |—

|40