Dennis Hill
Personal information
Date of birth (1929-08-16)16 August 1929
Place of birth Willenhall, England
Date of death July 2020(2020-07-00) (aged 90)
Place of death Wolverhampton, England
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Outside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Darlaston
1951–1957 Birmingham City 4 (0)
1957–1959 Burton Albion
1959–196? Matlock Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dennis Hill (16 August 1929 – July 2020) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham City.[1]

Life and career

Hill was born in Willenhall, Staffordshire. He joined Birmingham City in June 1951,[2] and made his debut in the Second Division on 13 February 1954, deputising for regular outside left Alex Govan in a home game against West Ham United which Birmingham won 2–0.[3] Hill played only three more games over the next three years, as Govan's goalscoring ability kept him out of first-team consideration, and in February 1957 he decided to pursue a career as a draughtsman while playing part-time football, first with Burton Albion[2] and then with Matlock Town. He scored seven goals from 38 appearances for Matlock in the 1959–60 season,[4] when the team won the championship of the Central Alliance Division North[5] and reached the first round proper of the FA Cup for the first time in the club's history.[6][7]

Hill died in Wolverhampton in July 2020 at the age of 90.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Birmingham City : 1947/48–2007/08". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
  2. 1 2 Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. pp. 97–98. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  3. ↑ Matthews, p. 189.
  4. ↑ "Pen pictures and player profiles". Down Causeway Lane. Matlock Town F.C. Archived from the original on 7 May 2009.
  5. ↑ "Gladiator History". Matlock Town F.C. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Crook back for record replay". Down Causeway Lane. Matlock Town F.C. Archived from the original on 11 September 2005.
  7. ↑ "Matlock Town". Football Club History Database. Richard Rundle. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
  8. ↑ "Dennis Hill". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 1 January 2024.


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