| Hugh Roberts | |
| Fullname: | Hugh Pierce Roberts |
| Birth Date: | 14 October 1882 |
| Birth Place: | Rhyl, Wales |
| Death Place: | Coventry, England |
| Height: | 5ft 4in |
| Position: | Outside right |
| Clubs1: | Port Sunlight |
| Clubs2: | St Helens Recreation |
| Years3: | 1908–1909 |
| Clubs3: | Southport Central |
| Caps3: | 29 |
| Goals3: | 5 |
| Years4: | 1909–1913 |
| Clubs4: | Leeds City |
| Caps4: | 108 |
| Goals4: | 13 |
| Years5: | 1913–1914 |
| Clubs5: | Scunthorpe & Lindsey United |
| Years6: | 1914–1915 |
| Clubs6: | Luton Town |
Hugh Pierce Roberts (14 October 1882 – 5 December 1969) was a Welsh professional footballer, best remembered for his four years as an outside right in the Football League with Leeds City.[1] [2]
Roberts' had a wife and four children and his brothers Albert and Dick were also footballers.[3] [4] Roberts served as a private in the Middlesex Regiment's Football Battalion during the First World War,[5] but he was unable to return to football after sustaining a fractured ankle in an accident in France in September 1918.
| Season | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Southport Central | 1908–09[6] | Lancashire Combination First Division | 29 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2[7] | 0 | 32 | 5 | |
| Leeds City | 1909–10[8] | Second Division | 24 | 6 | 1 | 0 | — | 25 | 6 | ||
| 1910–11 | 35 | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | 36 | 5 | ||||
| 1911–12 | 38 | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 40 | 3 | ||||
| 1912–13 | 11 | 1 | — | — | 11 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 108 | 13 | 4 | 2 | — | 112 | 15 | ||||
| Career total | 137 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 144 | 20 | |||