Benny Green (footballer) explained

Benny Green
Fullname:Benjamin Haigh Green
Birth Date:23 February 1883
Birth Place:Penistone, England
Death Place:Arras area, France
Position:Inside forward
Youthclubs1:Penistone Rising Star
Youthclubs2:Penistone
Years1:1901–1903
Caps1:46
Goals1:18
Years2:1903–1909
Clubs2:Small Heath / Birmingham
Caps2:185
Goals2:43
Years3:1909–1911
Caps3:71
Goals3:29
Years4:1911–1913
Caps4:73
Goals4:23
Years5:1913–1915
Caps5:31
Goals5:4
Totalcaps:360
Totalgoals:99

Benjamin Haigh Green (23 February 1883 – 26 April 1917) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward. He scored 117 goals from 406 matches in the Football League playing for Barnsley, Small Heath (renamed Birmingham in 1905), Burnley, Preston North End and Blackpool.[1]

He made nearly 200 appearances for Small Heath / Birmingham in all competitions, and scored the first goal at the club's new ground, St Andrew's, on 29 December 1906, three days after the official opening, for which he was rewarded with a piano.[2]

Green was born in Penistone, Yorkshire,[1] and was killed in action in France in 1917, where he was serving as a private with the King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment).[3] His sister Lucy captained the Huddersfield Atalanta Ladies F.C. in the 1920s.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Joyce, Michael . Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . SoccerData . Nottingham . 106 . 2004 . 978-1-899468-67-6.
  2. Book: Matthews, Tony . Birmingham City: A Complete Record . 1995 . 91 . Breedon Books . Derby . 978-1-85983-010-9.
  3. Web site: Casualty details: Green, Benjamin Haigh . Commonwealth War Graves Commission . 14 March 2013.
  4. Obituary in the Huddersfield Examiner (15/Jan/1958), transcribed on Huddersfield Exposed.