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Jimmy
Hampson |
Blackpool FC
3 appearances, 5 goals (1
on debut)
P 3 W 3 D 0 L 0 F 13:
A 4
100% successful
1930-32
captain: none
minutes played: 270 |
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Profile |
Full name |
James Hampson |
Born |
23 March 1906 at 201 Manchester Road East in Little Hulton, Bolton, Lancashire [registered in
Bolton, June 1906]. |
Baptism |
6 May 1906 in St. John the Baptist Church, Little Hulton, Bolton. Son
of a collier, Fred & Jane, living at 201 Manchester Road East. Baptism by M.S.
Munroe |
Census Notes |
According to the 1911
census, James is the eldest of two children to Fred and Jane, a third
child had tragically died before 1911. His sister, Hilda, is just one
month old. His father is a coal mine hewer. They live at 201 Manchester
Road East in Little Hulton. |
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Married:
to
Elizabeth Davies, on 19 May 1930 at Walkden Primitive Methodist Church,
Walkden [registered in Bolton, June 1930]. The Rev.
G. Emmott, superintendent minister, officiated. Mr. J. Cousin, the
organist. "The bride, who was given
away by her father, wore an ankle-length dress of white suede crepe with
tight-fitting bodice. The dress was trimmed with orange blossom and
lovers' knots in pearls. She wore a wreath and veil, with orange blossom,
and carried a bouquet of tea roses and lillies of the valley. Her
bridesmaids were Miss Hilda Hampson, sister of the bridegroom, and Miss
Ellen Davies, sister of the bride. Each wore a link of pearls, the gift of
the bridegroom, and carried bouquets of pink carnations. The best man was
Mr. Fred Hampson, brother, and another brother, Mr. Harold Hampson, was
groomsman. A reception was held in the Primitive Methodist School. A
prominent feature was a large wedding cake representing half of a football
pitch with 11 figures in tangerine and black." - Monday, 19
May 1930, The Lancashire Daily Post. |
Died |
10 January 1938, aged
31 years 293 days
[no death registered as no body was ever recovered!]. See
'England Tragedy' |
Height/Weight |
5'
7", 11st.
5lbs [1935]. |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990], FindMyPast.com
& Lan-opc.org.uk |
Club Career |
Club(s) |
Began his
junior career playing with Walkden Park FC, and then with Little Hulton
St. John's FC, from where he had a trial with Manchester United FC and
Blackburn Rovers FC. He did join Nelson FC in early 1925 and develeoped
his skills with the Seedhill reserves before breaking into the first-team.
After scoring 42 goals in 64 Division Three (North) appearances,
Blackpool FC beat other league clubs and signed Hampson on 11
October 1927 in a Nelson cinema for a £1250 transfer fee. Throughout his
time, he was constantly sought by other clubs, The Arsenal FC in September
1928. Derby County FC in October 1929. Arsenal FC again during the same
season, this time with a £10,000 offer. Blackpool were forced to
strenuously deny in October 1931 that Hampson was to be transferred.
Manchester United FC offered £10,000 for both Hampson and Bob Finan on 12
October 1937. He had made 361 league appearances, and amassed a
tremendous tally of 248 goals, before his untimely death. |
Club honours |
Football League Second Division winners 1929-30,
runners-up 1936-37; |
Individual honours |
Football
League (four appearances). |
Distinctions |
Registered
three consecutive hat-tricks for Nelson FC in his first season. His 45
goals for Blackpool FC in 1929-30 is a club record. Brother of Harold
Hampson (Everton FC, Southport FC & Sheffield United FC).
Also a fine cricketer, playing with Nelson CC and Blackpool CC. |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
England Career |
Player number |
One of five who became the 553rd
players
(555)
to appear for England. |
Position(s) |
Centre-forward |
First match |
No. 173,
20 October 1930,
England 5 Ireland
1, a British
Championship match at
Bramall Lane, Highfield, Sheffield, aged 24 years
211 days.
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Last match |
No. 184,
7 December
1932, England 4 Austria 3,
a friendly match at Stamford Bridge, Fulham Road, Fulham, London, aged 26 years 259 days. |
Major tournaments |
British Championship 1930-31; |
Team honours |
British Championship shared 1930-31; |
Individual honours |
England Joint Topscorer 1930
(3), 1932 (2); |
Distinctions |
The 200th England player to die. Died eleven days after Phil Bach |
Beyond England |
No additional information, but he
worked in the pit before entering football. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.116/117 |
England Disgrace |
"Jimmy Hampson, Blackpool's famous centre-foward, was fined
10s. at Blackpool, to-day, for causing an obstruction in the street by
leaving his motor car unattended. Superintendant Hannah said it was his
first offence. The Chairman: Jimmy Hampson will have to be the same as
anybody else (Laughter.)" - Friday, 20 June
1930, The Lancashire Daily Post. |
England
Tragedy |
"International
Footballer Believed Drowned. "Disaster overtook a party of six men
returning from a day's fishing trip off Fleetwood last night. Their yacht
collided with a trawler and sank, and two of the men were drowned. They
were Jimmmy Hampson, the Blackpool and
international footballer, and Mr H. V. Newsome,
brother of
a former Mayor of Blackpool. Three of the men were rescued by life-lines
thrown from the trawler, and the fourth was saved as he clung to the top
of the yacht's mast. A young deck hand in the trawler, who jumped into the
sea when he heard the men's cries, had to be rescued himself after
struggling for 20 minutes in the water. He was wearing a new jersey, the
sleeves of which slid down over his hands, making it almost impossible for
him to swim. "The six men were returning from a day's fishing in their
41-feet yacht Defender when their craft collided with the Fleetwood
trawler Cameo. The two men drowned were [Hampson and Newsome]. The rescued
men are:—Harold Jones and his son, David, of South Promenade, Blackpool;
W. H. Peake, of Lowery Terrace, South Shore, Blackpool, and Samuel Colley,
skipper of the yacht, of Fleetwood. All the men were in the cockpit,
sorting the day's catch, when the yacht collided with the trawler, which
was outward bound for the fishing grounds in charge of
Skipper J. Ainsworth, of Fleetwood. "When
the trawler returned to port the skipper gave a graphic account of the
mishap. 'We were steaming down Wyre Channel and had reached a point about
midway between the Wyre Lighthouse and the Promenade when, from the
wheelhouse window, I suddenly saw the mast of a yacht right in front of
the trawler's bows. A crash seemed inevitable, but I jammed down the
telegraph to the engine room for full speed astern. In this way, I avoided
a head-on collision, but the yacht, after sheering off, struck the side of
our ship near the bows. That yacht sank immediately, and in a flash her
occupants were thrown into the sea. We could hear men shouting for help in
the darkness from all directions. All hands were on deck. The work of
rescue was made extremely difficult because we could not see anyone in the
water. We had to manœuvre the trawler in the direction of the cries. We
were able to rescue four of the men. Three of them were thrown life-lines,
while the fourth was clinging to the top of the yacht's mast with only his
head above water.' Other members of the crew told dramatic stories, and
the hero of the tragedy was 19-year-old Tom Hargreaves, of Lancaster Road,
Knott End. Hargreaves is a deck hand in the trawler, and a few seconds
after the collision he saw someone's head floating past the trawler. He
immediately threw off his heavy sea clothing and dived over the side. 'I
was floundering in the sea for about 20 minutes, but apart David Jones I
did not see any of the men from the yacht, and I had enough to do to look
after myself, as my jersey was gradually drawing me under'. Eventually
Hargreaves himself had to be rescued by his shipmates. "Cries of the
men in the water and also of the trawler men were heard by the man on
watch in Fleetwood lifeboat house, and within a few minutes a small boat
left the beach manned by the coxswain of the lifeboat and other
lifeboatmen. They
went out to the scene, but returned without having seen anything of the
yacht or the two missing men. Later to-night the ferry service between
Fleetwood and Knott End was stopped to enable the steamer Wyresdale,
manned by the police, to take part in the search of the channel." - 11 January 1938,
The Leeds Mercury.
"Mrs Hampsons Double Grief. "Mrs Hampson
gave birth to a stillborn child last Tuesday, and is ill at her home in
Woodfield Grove, South Shore, Blackpool. She has not been told of her
husband's death. Hampson, although worried by his wife's illness, turned
out for Blackpool in the Cup-tie against Birmingham on Saturday, and
showed some of the form which earned him international honours and
materially assisted Blackpool's weakened side to win. The news of his fate
caused shock in the town, many at first refusing to believe it. Hampson
was a popular player. Temperamental to a certain degree, he made many
friends. He was a keen fisherman, and only last summer had a narrow escape
at Fleetwood when the boat from which he was fishing nearly capsized in
the wash of a trawler." - 11 January 1938, The
Evening Telegraph.
"Memorial
Service for Jimmy Hampson.
"Mrs. Jimmy Hampson, ill in a Blackpool nursing home, listened on a
bedside telephone yesterday to the memorial service at St. John's Church,
Blackpool, to her husband, Jimmy Hampson, and Mr. Harry V. Newsome, who
were drowned in a yachting accident off Fleetwood. By her side sat Mrs.
Newsome. It was the first time the bereaved women had met. And while the
two shared their grief silently together crowds inside and outside the
church paid their tribute to the two men. The church was crowded and over
1,000, who could not be found accommodation, heard the service relayed to
them outside by loud-speakers. The congregation included the Mayor and
Mayoress of Blackpool (Alderman and Mrs. J. R. Quayle), members of the
Corporation, directors and players of the Blackpool Football Club, members
of the local junior football leagues, angling societies, Freemasons, and
other organisations." - Monday, 17
January 1938, The Birmingham Gazette
"£5 Reward for Finding of Footballer's Body
"Notices offering a reward of £5 for the finding of the body of Jimmy
Hampson are displayed in Morecambe and Heysham shop window. One body
has been found but that of Hampson's is still missing. It is thought that
owing to the weekend storms and high tides the body might have been washed
into Morecambe Bay. The reward is offered by the Blackpool F.C. through
the police." - Saturday, 22 January
1938, The Guardian
"Body not Jimmy Hampson. "Sergeant Eccles, at an
inquest at Coulderton, near Whitehaven, yesterday on a body washed ashore
on Saturday, said it was definitely not that of the Blackpool footballer,
Jimmy Hampson, who lost his life in a boating accident. It was stated that
nothing had come to light which might help towards identification. Verdict
of found drowned was returned." -
Tuesday, 22 March 1938, The Courier & Advertiser
"Widow's Tribute. "Accompanied by her
mother and father, Mrs. Hampson, widow of Jimmy Hampson, [yesterday]
visited the spot in the Wyre Channel where her husband was lost a short
time ago. When the place where the yacht Defender sank after colliding
with the Fleetwood trawler Cameo was reached. Mr. H. A. Howes,
superintendent of the Fleetwood branch of the Royal National Mission to
Deep Sea Fishermen, held a short service, and Mrs. Hampson cast a wreath
into the sea." - Thursday, 24 March 1938, The Leeds Mercury.
"Memorial to Jimmy Hampson "Two photographs, of Jimmy Hampson and Mr.
Harry Newsome, were unveiled at the Central Bowling and Social Club,
Blackpool, last night, by the Mayor (Ald. J. R. Quayle)." -
Wednesday, 6 April 1938, The Yorkshire Post.
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Jimmy Hampson - Career Statistics |
Squads |
Apps |
comp. apps |
Mins. |
Goals |
goals ave.min |
comp. goals |
Capt. |
Disc. |
4 |
3 |
2 |
270 |
5 |
54
min |
3 |
none |
none |
minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors. |
Jimmy Hampson
- Match Record - All Matches |
Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
|
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
Home |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
4 |
+5 |
0 |
0 |
4.50 |
2.00 |
100.0 |
+2 |
Away |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
+4 |
0 |
1 |
4.00 |
0.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
All |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
4 |
+9 |
0 |
1 |
4.333 |
1.333 |
100.0 |
+3 |
Jimmy Hampson
- Match Record - By Type of Match |
Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
British Championship |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
1 |
+8 |
0 |
1 |
4.50 |
0.50 |
100.0 |
+2 |
Friendly |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
3 |
+1 |
0 |
0 |
4.00 |
3.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
All |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
4 |
+9 |
0 |
1 |
4.333 |
1.333 |
100.0 |
+3 |
Jimmy Hampson
- Match Record - Tournament Matches |
British Championship Competition |
Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
BC 1930-31 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
1 |
+8 |
0 |
1 |
4.50 |
0.50 |
100.0 |
+2 |
BC
All |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
1 |
+8 |
0 |
1 |
4.50 |
0.50 |
100.0 |
+2 |
All Competition |
Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
BC |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
1 |
+8 |
0 |
1 |
4.50 |
0.50 |
100.0 |
+2 |
All |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
1 |
+8 |
0 |
1 |
4.50 |
0.50 |
100.0 |
+2 |
Jimmy Hampson
- Match History
Club:
Blackpool F.C.
- three full appearances (270 min) |
F.A. International Select Committee - three full appearances (270 min)x
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Notes
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