Joseph Dines

Joseph Frank Dines (12 April 1886 – 27 September 1918) was an English amateur footballer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Joseph Dines
Personal information
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
Playing 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
National team
England amateur 27 (0)
1912 Great Britain 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
Olympic medal record
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.[1] 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.[2] He is listed in the 1901 census as a National Schools' Monitor.[3] 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.[4] 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.[2] He was killed, aged 31, in Pas-de-Calais on the Western Front, He is buried in Hagnicourt.[5]

See also

References
  1. "Joseph Dines". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  2. Lakey, Chris. "Norwich City's true heroes: the players who gave their lives in the First World War". Eastern Daily Press. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  3. 1901 census – 4 Whitefriars Terrace, South Lynn, Norfolk
  4. "Joe Dines". Blue & Gold Supporters Trust. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  5. "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.


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