Hugh Barr

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Hugh Barr
Personal information
Full name	Hubert Henry Barr
Date of birth	(1935-05-17) 17 May 1935
Place of birth	Ballymena, Northern Ireland
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Playing position	Forward
Youth career
–	Wellington Street Boys' Brigade
–	Harryville Amateurs
–	Ballyclare Comrades
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1954–1956	Cliftonville	?	(9)
1956	Everton	0	(0)
1956–1959	Coleraine	?	(34)
1959–1961	Ballymena United	?	(32)
1961–1962	Linfield	18	(12)
1962–1964	Coventry City	47	(15)
1964–1967	Cambridge United	?	(?)
1967–1972	Ely City	?	(?)
National team
1956–1962	Northern Ireland Amateur	14	(11)
1959	Northern Ireland B	1	(1)
1961–1962	Northern Ireland	3	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Hubert Henry Barr, known as Hugh Barr, (born 17 May 1935) is a Northern Irish former footballer who played as a forward at both professional and international levels.

Career

Club career

Born in Ballymena, Barr began his career with a number of local clubs including Wellington Street Boys' Brigade and Harryville Amateurs and Ballyclare Comrades. Barr then played as an amateur for Cliftonville, before attending Loughborough College briefly in 1956. Barr then signed for Everton, but he never played for the first team, before returning to Northern Ireland to play with Coleraine, Ballymena United and Linfield. Barr later returned to England to play professionally with Coventry City in the Football League, before playing non-league football with Cambridge United and Ely City, where he was player-manager.^[1]

International career

Barr earned one cap for Northern Ireland B in 1959, before representing Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Olympics, although he did not play a game in the tournament. Barr also earned three full caps for Northern Ireland between 1961 and 1962, as well as fourteen caps for the Northern Ireland Amateur team between 1956 and 1962.

References

↑ History Ely City FC

External links

v t e Great Britain squad – 1960 Summer Olympics

Barr La. Brown Le. Brown R. Brown Coates Devine Forde Greenwood Hasty Holt Howard Lewis Lindsay McKinven Neil Pinner Sleap Thompson Wakefield

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Persondata
Name	Barr, Hugh
Alternative names
Short description	Northern Irish footballer
Date of birth	17 May 1935
Place of birth	Ballymena, Northern Ireland
Date of death
Place of death

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