Benny Green (footballer)
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Benjamin Haigh Green | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 23 February 1883||
Place of birth | Penistone, England | ||
Date of death | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[2] | ||
Place of death | Arras area, France | ||
Position(s) | Inside forward | ||
Youth career | |||
– | Penistone Rising Star | ||
– | Penistone | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1901–1903 | Barnsley | 46 | (18) |
1903–1909 | Small Heath / Birmingham | 185 | (43) |
1909–1911 | Burnley | 71 | (29) |
1911–1913 | Preston North End | 73 | (23) |
1913–1915 | Blackpool | 31 | (4) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Benjamin Haigh Green (23 February 1883 – 26 April 1917) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward. He scored 117 goals from 406 matches in the Football League playing for Barnsley, Small Heath (renamed Birmingham in 1905), Burnley, Preston North End and Blackpool.[1]
He made nearly 200 appearances for Small Heath / Birmingham in all competitions, and scored the first goal at the club's new ground, St Andrew's, on 29 December 1906, three days after the official opening, for which he was rewarded with a piano.[3]
Green was born in Penistone, Yorkshire,[1] and was killed in action in France in 1917, where he was serving as a private with the King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment).[2]
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- 1883 births
- 1917 deaths
- People from Penistone
- English footballers
- Association football forwards
- Barnsley F.C. players
- Birmingham City F.C. players
- Burnley F.C. players
- Preston North End F.C. players
- Blackpool F.C. players
- The Football League players
- King's Own Royal Regiment soldiers
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- Sportspeople from Yorkshire
- English football forward, 1880s birth stubs