Harry Hardy

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Harry Hardy
Full name	Harry Hardy
Date of birth
Place of birth	Stockport, England
Date of death	17 February 1969
Height	-
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Retired
Number	1
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1918-1925 1925-1929 1929-????	Stockport County Everton F.C. Bury F.C.	207 (0) 40 (0) 27 (0)
National team²
1924	England FC	1 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 February 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 25 February 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Harry Hardy (???? – 17 February 1969) was a football player from Stockport, England, regarded as one of the best players that Stockport County have ever had. He was the first, and to date the only, player for Stockport County to win an England Cap. Hardy made 207 appearances for Stockport. He made his unremarkable debut against Cardiff on September 4Tth 1920, conceding three goals. He then went on the make 170 consecutive appearances for the club before he missed his first County game, a 1-1 draw with Southampton on October 11 1924, due to his involvement with the Football League representative side He also played for Everton F.C. and Bury F.C..

He is though of as County's best ever goalkeeper. His statistics, though, in the Hatters' Division Three (North) championship season in 1922, are remarkable.

Hardy was an ever-present conceding just 21 goals, a club record that stands to this day. He kept 23 clean sheets in his 38 games, which included a quite incredible 20 from his side's opening 27 games of the campaign

Hardy also holds the club's individual goalkeeping record for not conceding a goal. When Blackpool's Barrass scored a 77minute goal at Edgeley Park on April 30 1921 Hardy was not beaten again until Tommy Robson scored an own goal at Southport on October 8 1921 & 755 minutes later.