Joseph Dines
English footballer
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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 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 12 April 1886 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | King's Lynn, England | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 27 September 1918 (aged 32) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Pas-de-Calais, France | |||||||||||||
| Position | 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) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
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 Harvincourt.[6]
