Samuel Day (sportsman)
For the Australian footballer, see Sam Day.
For the 19th century English jockey, see Sam Day (jockey).
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Samuel Hulme Day | ||
| Date of birth | 29 December 1878 | ||
| Place of birth | Peckham Rye, England | ||
| Date of death | 21 February 1950 (aged 71) | ||
| Playing position | Inside forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| Old Malvernians | |||
| 1898–1914 | Corinthians | 108 | (117) |
| National team | |||
| 1906 | England | 3 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Samuel Hulme Day (29 December 1878 – 21 February 1950), a.k.a. Sammy Day, was an amateur cricketer for Kent and an English international footballer, who played as an inside forward.
Cricket career
Day was born in Peckham Rye, London. After receiving an education at Malvern College, where he was Captain of the Cricket XI,[1] he went to Queens' College, Cambridge where he played for the Cricket First XI, scoring 1631 runs. Day played for Kent from 1897 to 1919 and scored 5,893 runs.[2]
Football career
Day played for Old Malvernians, and earned three caps for England in 1906, scoring two goals.[3] He also went on to play for the Corinthians, scoring over one hundred goals for them.[4]
References
- ↑ Mr Samuel Hulme Day. www.cricinfo.com.
- ↑ Sam Day. cricketarchive.co.uk.
- ↑ Samuel Day England profile at Englandstats
- ↑ Corinthian Casuals F.C. - Player profiles