Harry King (footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Henry Edward King | ||
| Date of birth | 4 January 1886 | ||
| Place of birth | Northampton, Northamptonshire, England | ||
| Date of death | 6 February 1968 (aged 82) | ||
| Place of death | Worcester, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| – | Evesham Star | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1906–1907 | Worcester City | ||
| 1907–1910 | Birmingham | 29 | (6) |
| 1910–1911 | Crewe Alexandra | ||
| 1911–1914 | Northampton Town | 99 | (67) |
| 1914–1915 | Arsenal | 37 | (26) |
| 1919–1920 | Leicester City | 8 | (1) |
| 1920–1921 | Brentford | 33 | (16) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Henry Edward King (4 January 1886 – 6 February 1968) was an English footballer who made more than 100 appearances in the Football League.
King was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire. He began his career at Evesham Star and Worcester City before joining Second Division club Birmingham in 1907. A centre forward, he scored 7 goals from 30 games over three seasons, but could not cement a first team place and left in 1910. Over the next four years, he had spells at non-league Crewe Alexandra and then Northampton Town.
In April 1914 he joined Arsenal, returning to League football. Arsenal had just missed out on promotion on goal average to the First Division, and in 1914-15 King spearheaded their attack, scoring 26 goals in the League and another three in the FA Cup. These included the first hat trick scored at their new Highbury stadium (against Grimsby Town on 14 November 1914), and two four-goal hauls against Wolverhampton Wanderers and Nottingham Forest. King's 29 goals that season were an all-time club record at the time, remaining so until Jimmy Brain broke it in 1925-26. However, Arsenal's defence let them down and they only finished fifth, outside of the promotion places; eventually, they were re-elected back to the First Division when football resumed after the end of the First World War.
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