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Lyon Sam Image 1 Hull City 1913
£8.95 – £49.95
Description
Prescot, Lancashire born centre forward Sam Lyon played for local junior club Prescot from where he was signed by Second Division Hull City in 1912, making his Football League debut against Stockport County on Christmas Day 1912, scoring his only goal for The Tigers the following February in a 3-1 win over Bristol City in February 1913 in 5 outings that season. He made only one further appearance for The Tigers in 1913-14 before joining Barnsley in the summer of 1914. He scored 3 goals in 8 appearances for The Tykes as Barnsley narrowly missed out on promotion finishing 3rd in the final season before the onset of the First World War forced the abandonment of peacetime football.
Lyon served as a private in the Footballers’ Battalion of the 17th Middlesex Regiment during the First World War and was killed on the first day of the Battle the Somme on 1st July 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Lyon’s younger brother Jack Lyon also played for Hull City both sides of the First World War and also later played League football for New Brighton.
NB this photograph was taken at the Birmingham v Hull City match at St Andrews on 4th October 1913, Lyon was Hull City’s non playing reserve on the day.
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