Ernie Hunt
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Roger Patrick Hunt | ||
| Date of birth | 17 March 1943 | ||
| Place of birth | Swindon, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Playing position | Inside forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1957–1959 | Swindon Town | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1959–1965 | Swindon Town | 214 | (82) |
| 1965–1967 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 74 | (32) |
| 1967 | → Los Angeles Wolves | 10 | (4) |
| 1967–1968 | Everton | 14 | (3) |
| 1968–1973 | Coventry City | 146 | (45) |
| 1973 | → Doncaster Rovers (loan) | 9 | (1) |
| 1973–1974 | Bristol City | 12 | (2) |
| 1974–? | Atherstone Town | ||
| Ledbury Town | |||
| National team | |||
| 1963–1966 | England U23 | 3 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Roger Patrick "Ernie" Hunt (born 17 March 1943) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Swindon Town, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Everton, Coventry City, Doncaster Rovers and Bristol City, and for the Los Angeles Wolves in the United Soccer Association. At international level, he was capped three times for the England under-23 team. He was known as "Ernie" – a contraction of Ernest, his father's name – to avoid confusion with Liverpool and England striker Roger Hunt.
Born in Swindon, Hunt was working for British Rail when he was signed as an amateur by Swindon Town in 1957. He progressed through their youth ranks, made his debut on 15 September 1959 in a 3–0 defeat in the Third Division at Grimsby Town, which made him Swindon's youngest ever first-team player, aged 16 years 182 days, a record which stood until 1980, and signed professional forms in March 1960.
He finished as the club's top goalscorer for four consecutive seasons, and helped them win promotion to the Second Division in 1963. Hunt made his debut for the England under-23 team on 2 June 1963 in a 1–0 defeat to their Romanian counterparts, the first of three caps he won at that level. Swindon were relegated at the end of the 1964–65 campaign, and Hunt left to join Wolverhampton Wanderers in September 1965, for a fee of £40,000, which was at the time Swindon's record transfer receipt. In all competitions, he scored 88 goals from 237 games for Swindon.
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