Hubert Menten
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 Menten (right) at the 1928 Winter Olympics | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jacques Hubert Pierre François Menten | ||
| Date of birth | 12 September 1873 | ||
| Place of birth | Muntok, Dutch East Indies | ||
| Date of death | 8 May 1964 (aged 90) | ||
| Place of death | Zurich, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1887–1894 | Koninklijke HFC | ||
| International career | |||
| 1894 | Netherlands unofficial team | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Hubert Menten (12 September 1873 – 8 May 1964) was a Dutch footballer who played as a midfielder for Koninklijke HFC and the Netherlands national team (unofficial) in the early 1890s. He later became a bobsledder, competing in the four-man event at the 1928 Winter Olympics.[2]
Hubert Menten was born on 12 September 1873 in the Dutch East Indies, in the Indonesian archipelago of Bangka-Belitung on the island of Sumatra.
Together with Pim Mulier, Jacob Willem Schorer, Johan Schröder, Solco Tromp, and Albertus Putman Cramer, Menten was a member of the Koninklijke HFC team that won the first ever cup match in the Netherlands on 11 February 1894, helping his side to a 3–1 win over Haarlem,[3] as well as three Dutch championships in 1889–90, 1892–93, and 1894–95.[4] He was one of the eleven footballers who started in the Netherlands' first-ever unofficial international match on 6 February 1894 against the English side Felixstowe United, which ended in a 0–1 loss, but such was the English supremacy at the time that this was still an incredible result.[5][6] According to the chronicles of the match, Menten "almost scored, but was not sharp enough in the finish".[6]
