Samuel Day (sportsman)

This article is about the English cricketer and footballer. For other uses, see Samuel Day (disambiguation).
Samuel Day
Personal information
Full name Samuel Hulme Day
Date of birth (1878-12-29)29 December 1878
Place of birth Peckham Rye, England
Date of death 21 February 1950(1950-02-21) (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


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