Leekbrookgull
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Can anyone confirm ? Were either,Albion,s Graham Cross and Sheffield Utd,s Ted Hemsley, professional cricketters during the summer season ? 
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I know there was a Ted Hemsley that played cricket for Worcestershire and was born in Stoke. Don't ask me how - One of those useless nuggets and I am pretty sure he played for Sheff Utd. Not sure about Graham Cross.
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Graham Cross played cricket for Leicestershire and, more successfully, football for Leicester and BHA.
Others include Chris Balderstone, Tony Cottey and Geoff Hurst.
Others include Chris Balderstone, Tony Cottey and Geoff Hurst.
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Norman Potting
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Ian Botham played a few games for Scunthorpe United. Should I start a "footballing cricketers" thread?? I suspect that Denis Compton was the most successful one - played for England in both sports.
I think there were about a dozen people who played both cricket and football for England: Compton and CB Fry are the most famous but the last one to do so, Arthur Milton, died last month. Other ones that I know of include Harry Makepeace and Willie Watson but I know there are more.
When I first started watching sport, there were several cricketing footballers: Hemsley, Balderstone and Cross have been mentioned (Geoff Hurst only played one game for Essex) but there were also Jim Standen, Jimmy Cumbes and Dennis Foreman (Albion and Sussex). Phil Neale was the last one that I can remember who regularly played both sports.
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Does Steve Gatting still play for Preston Nomads ??
Tyrone Biggums
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Shane Warne reached the highest level a junior Australian rules footballer could in the VFL U/19'scomp , wasn't that great but still made it that far,
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Tricky Dicky
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Dennis Foreman played for the Albion and also played for Sussex.
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Not forgetting Tommy Cook who scored 123 goals for The Albion and 20,198 runs for Sussex. Sadly, he took his own life at the tender age of 48.
Dave the OAP
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Chris Balderstone played for Yorkshire and Carlisle ( my Godfather)
Arnold Sidebottom played for Yorkshire , HTFC and I think manu
The Comptons, Surrey and Arsenal
Geoff Hurst - Essex and West ham United
Neil Smith - Essex and Yorkshire and HTFC _ neil Smith was my Dads best mate when they were both professionals for Chickenley in the Central Yorkshire League in the middle 60's
Arnold Sidebottom played for Yorkshire , HTFC and I think manu
The Comptons, Surrey and Arsenal
Geoff Hurst - Essex and West ham United
Neil Smith - Essex and Yorkshire and HTFC _ neil Smith was my Dads best mate when they were both professionals for Chickenley in the Central Yorkshire League in the middle 60's
Max Woosnam - Britains Greatest EVER all-round Sportsman
Maxwell "Max" Woosnam (September 6, 1892 - July 14, 1965) was a British World War I veteran and a British sportsman.
"As a schoolboy he scored 144 for a Public Schools XI while playing against the MCC at Lord's.
In 1911 he enrolled in Cambridge university. Whilst here he represented the university at football, cricket, lawn tennis, real tennis and golf (being a scratch golfer).
After Cambridge he played amateur football for the then highly successful team, Corinthian Casuals and Chelsea
In the First World War he fought alongside Siegfried Sassoon fighting on the western front and the Gallipoli Campaign.
After the war Woosnam continued his amateur sporting career taking part in several sporting events including Wimbledon and began to attract a great deal of fame. He declined the opportunity of becoming a professional sportsman, finding the idea 'vulgar'.
Upon moving to Manchester he signed for Manchester City (on amateur terms) eventually rising to become its captain at the recommendation of his team-mates. This was highly unusual for an amateur among professionals. Eventually his success allowed him to play for England (both for the amateur team and as a full international as captain). Woosnam was also selected to captain the British football team at Olympics, but refused, having already committed himself to the tennis team. He continued other sporting endeavours outside of football however, winning doubles titles at Wimbledon and the Olympics, and captaining the Great British Davis Cup team.
He ended up on the board of ICI, and died in 1965 of respiratory failure.
His life is chronicled in the book All Round Genius - The Unknown Story of Britain's Greatest Sportsman, by Mick Collins.
He once defeated actor and film director Charlie Chaplin at table tennis while playing with a butter knife instead of a bat.
He was very experienced at snooker too (once achieving a maximum break)!"
So, to summarise;
Football; Captained England and Man City
Cricket; Captained Cambridge, scored a ton at Lords as a kid aginst the MCC
Tennis; Won Wimbledon and Olympic doubles titles
Golf; scratch handicap
Snooker; Maximum break
Table Tennis; Top player
And, war hero, and succesful businessman.
BEAT THAT!
Maxwell "Max" Woosnam (September 6, 1892 - July 14, 1965) was a British World War I veteran and a British sportsman.
"As a schoolboy he scored 144 for a Public Schools XI while playing against the MCC at Lord's.
In 1911 he enrolled in Cambridge university. Whilst here he represented the university at football, cricket, lawn tennis, real tennis and golf (being a scratch golfer).
After Cambridge he played amateur football for the then highly successful team, Corinthian Casuals and Chelsea
In the First World War he fought alongside Siegfried Sassoon fighting on the western front and the Gallipoli Campaign.
After the war Woosnam continued his amateur sporting career taking part in several sporting events including Wimbledon and began to attract a great deal of fame. He declined the opportunity of becoming a professional sportsman, finding the idea 'vulgar'.
Upon moving to Manchester he signed for Manchester City (on amateur terms) eventually rising to become its captain at the recommendation of his team-mates. This was highly unusual for an amateur among professionals. Eventually his success allowed him to play for England (both for the amateur team and as a full international as captain). Woosnam was also selected to captain the British football team at Olympics, but refused, having already committed himself to the tennis team. He continued other sporting endeavours outside of football however, winning doubles titles at Wimbledon and the Olympics, and captaining the Great British Davis Cup team.
He ended up on the board of ICI, and died in 1965 of respiratory failure.
His life is chronicled in the book All Round Genius - The Unknown Story of Britain's Greatest Sportsman, by Mick Collins.
He once defeated actor and film director Charlie Chaplin at table tennis while playing with a butter knife instead of a bat.
He was very experienced at snooker too (once achieving a maximum break)!"
So, to summarise;
Football; Captained England and Man City
Cricket; Captained Cambridge, scored a ton at Lords as a kid aginst the MCC
Tennis; Won Wimbledon and Olympic doubles titles
Golf; scratch handicap
Snooker; Maximum break
Table Tennis; Top player
And, war hero, and succesful businessman.
BEAT THAT!
Parson Henry
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twasn't the same Phil Neale Gwylan.
Phillip Anthony Neale OBE, born at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, on June 5, 1954, was a cricketer who played for Worcestershire and captained the team to success in the County Championship in 1988 and 1989. He also played football for Lincoln City and Scunthorpe United.
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Tricky Dicky
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I don't have any stats for Dennis Foreman but if you know where to find them BoF I'd be quite interested. He was my P.E. teacher at school.
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Of recent Sussex cricketers ... don't forget Bill Athey. He ended his football career playing for Ringmer.
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... and nobody has yet mentioned Jake Robinson.