John Hanlon (footballer) explained

John Hanlon
Height:5ft 7in
Position:Outside right
Birth Date:1892
Birth Place:Addiewell, Scotland
Death Date:[1]
Death Place:West Calder, Scotland
Years1:
Clubs1:Fauldhouse West End
Years2:1913–1916
Clubs2:Hamilton Academical
Caps2: 88
Goals2:11
Years3:1916–1919
Clubs3:Heart of Midlothian
Caps3: 1
Goals3:0
Years4:1919–1922
Clubs4:Hamilton Academical
Caps4: 96
Goals4:15
Years5:1922–1926
Clubs5:Heart of Midlothian
Caps5: 18
Goals5:2
Years6:1924
Clubs6:Bathgate (loan)
Caps6: 6
Goals6:1
Years7:1925–1926
Clubs7:Alloa Athletic (loan)
Caps7: 5
Goals7:0
Years8:1926–1927
Clubs8:Peebles Rovers
Caps8: 
Years9:1928–1929
Clubs9:Stoneyburn
Caps9: 
Totalcaps:214
Totalgoals:28

John Hanlon (1892–1976) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right.[2]

Early life

John Hanlon was born in 1892 in Addiewell,[3] West Calder,[4] Scotland to Irish parents, George Hanlon and Ellen/Helen McCrossan of County Donegal.

Career

Hanlon played primarily for Hamilton Academical – he signed for the Accies as a teenager in 1913 a week after being selected for Scotland at junior level, featuring regularly for much of that time.[2]

He moved to Heart of Midlothian in 1916[5] but only played in one Scottish Football League match[2] during his initial three years at Tynecastle Park and was away from the club for much of the time serving in World War I.

He returned to Hamilton in late 1919 (and was a Lanarkshire Cup winner in 1920) then signed for Hearts again in 1922,[5] but failed to become established there, serving lower-division loans at Bathgate and Alloa Athletic.[2]

Outside football

Hanlon was a noted athlete (often competing under the pseudonym 'Harris'),[6] [7] his speciality being middle-distance running and particularly the half mile, recording a 1min 55sec time in a meeting at Shawfield Stadium in 1922.[7] He won multiple track events with his regiment (Royal Scots) in a post-war Rhine Army Sports Championship in 1919;[6] [7] during the conflict itself, he was employed as a dispatch runner.[6]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-deaths&surname=Hanlon&surname_so=syn&forename=John&forename_so=fuzzy&other_surname_so=exact&mmsurname_so=exact&sex=M&from_year=1950&birth_year=1892&birth_year_range=1&record_type=stat_deaths Statutory registers – Deaths – Search results
  2. A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players. John Litster. Scottish Football Historian magazine. October 2012.
  3. Registrar General for Scotland:1901 Census of West Calder registration district, Midlothian, Scotland (household of George Hanlon, resident at 11 Stephenson Street, Addiewell). Index transcription online (with membership fee) at Find My Past; Repository of original document: National Records of Scotland
  4. Web site: Statutory Registers - Births (Advanced Search). 8 November 2021. ScotlandsPeople.
  5. https://www.londonhearts.com/scores/newplayers/h00819.html (Hearts player) John Hanlon
  6. https://sites.google.com/site/hamiltonacademicalmemorybank/players/hanlon-jock-1913 Hanlon, Jock (1913)
  7. http://www.addiewellheritage.org.uk/page_id__54.aspx John Hanlon, Hearts and Scotland