Full name Samuel Hulme Day Playing position Name Samuel Day Died February 21, 1950 | Place of birth Peckham Rye, England Years Team Role Footballer Position Inside forward | |
Date of birth (1878-12-29)29 December 1878 Date of death 21 February 1950(1950-02-21) (aged 71) | ||
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.
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Cricket career
Day was born in Peckham Rye, London. After receiving an education at Malvern College, where he was Captain of the Cricket XI, 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.
Football career
Day played for Old Malvernians, and earned three caps for England in 1906, scoring two goals. He also went on to play for the Corinthians, scoring over one hundred goals for them.
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