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Place of birth
  
Royton, England

Name
  
Fred Hopkinson

1928–1934
  
1927–1928
  
Years
  
Team


Fred Hopkinson Image Fred Hopkinson and Billy Morley Nico Morgan Media

Date of birth
  
(1908-04-26)26 April 1908

Playing position
  
Wing half, inside right

Fred Hopkinson (26 April 1908 – after 1935) was an English footballer who made 221 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half or inside right for Darlington and Barrow in the 1920s and 1930s. He was also on the books of Sheffield Wednesday, but without representing that club in league competition, and played non-league football for Shotton, Seaham Harbour, Horden Colliery Welfare and South Shields.

Fred Hopkinson Image Fred Hopkinson Nico Morgan Media

In 1933, Hopkinson and Darlington teammates Harry Brown, Billy Eden and Tom Halliday were members of the Rest of Durham XI that faced First Division club Sunderland in a match to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Durham County Football Association.

Hopkinson was born in Royton, Lancashire, the son of Samuel Hopkinson, a piecer, and his wife Martha.

References

Fred Hopkinson Wikipedia