Tommy Hassell | |
Fullname: | Thomas William Hassell |
Birth Date: | 5 April 1919 |
Birth Place: | Eastleigh, England |
Death Place: | Hove, England |
Position: | Inside left |
Years1: | 19??–1946 |
Caps1: | 0 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Years2: | 1946–1950 |
Caps2: | 114 |
Goals2: | 16 |
Years3: | 1950–1951 |
Caps3: | 11 |
Goals3: | 4 |
Years4: | 1951–1954 |
Clubs4: | Folkestone Town |
Years5: | 1954–1958 |
Clubs5: | Lewes |
Years6: | 1958–19?? |
Clubs6: | Bexhill Town |
Clubs7: | Newhaven |
Thomas William Hassell (5 April 1919 – April 1984) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left in the Football League for Aldershot and Brighton & Hove Albion.
Hassell was born in Eastleigh, Hampshire, in 1919. He joined Southampton as a youngster, and played for them in the wartime competitions, as well as making guest appearances for a variety of other clubs, but moved on to Aldershot before the Football League resumed in 1946.[1] In a four-year spell, Hassell made 114 appearances in the Football League Third Division South for Aldershot. He spent the 1950–51 season as a part-time professional with another Third Division club, Brighton & Hove Albion, for which he had played during the war, and then spent another three years with Folkestone Town.[1] In 1954, he resumed amateur status and acted as player-coach of Sussex County League club Lewes for four seasons, and then played for Bexhill Town[2] and Newhaven.[1]
He returned to Albion as assistant trainer from 1964 to 1967. Outside football, Hassell worked in the Brighton railway workshops as a fitter.[1] He died in Hove, Sussex, in 1984.