| Joseph Dines | |
| Birth Date: | 1886 4, df=y |
| Birth Place: | King's Lynn, England |
| Death Place: | Pas-de-Calais, France |
| Position: | Centre half |
| Clubs1: | Lynn All Saints |
| Clubs2: | Lynn United |
| Years3: | 1904–1910 |
| Clubs3: | Lynn Town |
| Clubs4: | → Norwich City (guest) |
| Clubs5: | → Woolwich Arsenal (guest) |
| Clubs6: | → Queens Park Rangers (guest) |
| Years7: | 1910–1912 |
| Clubs7: | Ilford |
| Years8: | 1912 |
| Clubs8: | Liverpool |
| Caps8: | 1 |
| Goals8: | 0 |
| Clubs10: | Walthamstow Avenue |
| Clubs11: | Millwall |
| Clubs12: | Lynn Town |
| Nationalteam1: | England amateur |
| Nationalcaps1: | 27 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
| Nationalyears2: | 1912 |
| Nationalteam2: | Great Britain |
| Nationalcaps2: | 3 |
| Nationalgoals2: | 0 |
Joseph Frank Dines (12 April 1886 – 27 September 1918) was an English amateur footballer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]
He represented Great Britain as part of the England national amateur football team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament.[2] He played all three matches.
Dines was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he worked as a school teacher alongside playing local football in the town.[3] He is listed in the 1901 census as a National Schools' Monitor.[4] Dines later moved to the Ilford/South Woodford area, playing for local non-league club Ilford. Dines resisted attempts to become a professional, however played for Liverpool, Walthamstow Avenue and Millwall, as well as featuring for Norwich City and Woolwich Arsenal's reserves during his time at Lynn Town.[5] During the First World War, he served in the Army Ordnance Corps, the Middlesex Regiment, the Machine Gun Corps and latterly as a second-lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment. He was killed, aged 31, in Pas-de-Calais on the Western Front, He is buried in Hagnicourt.[6]