Joseph Dines
Personal information
Date of birth (1886-04-12)12 April 1886
Place of birth King's Lynn, England
Date of death 27 September 1918(1918-09-27) (aged 32)
Place of death Pas-de-Calais, France
Position(s) Centre half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Lynn All Saints
Lynn United
1904–1910 Lynn Town
Norwich City (guest)
Woolwich Arsenal (guest)
Queens Park Rangers (guest)
1910–1912 Ilford
1912 Liverpool 1 (0)
Ilford
Walthamstow Avenue
Millwall
Lynn Town
International career
England amateur 27 (0)
1912 Great Britain 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Olympic medal record
Men's football
Representing  Great Britain
Gold medal – first place 1912 Stockholm Team competition

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.[3] He was killed, aged 31, in Pas-de-Calais on the Western Front, He is buried in Hagnicourt.[6]

See also

References

  1. "Joseph Dines". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  2. "Joseph Dines". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 Lakey, Chris (9 November 2018). "Norwich City's true heroes: the players who gave their lives in the First World War". Eastern Daily Press. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  4. 1901 census – 4 Whitefriars Terrace, South Lynn, Norfolk
  5. "Joe Dines". Blue & Gold Supporters Trust. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  6. "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
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