Joseph Dines
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Joseph Frank Dines (12 April 1886 – 27 September 1918) was an English amateur footballer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]
Personal information | |||
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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 | ||
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Men's football | ||
Representing Great Britain | ||
1912 Stockholm | Team competition |
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]