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Huddersfield is a large historic market, college and mill town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 162,949 at the 2011 census. It sits close to the Pennines, 14 miles (23 km) south-west of Leeds, 12 miles (19 km) west of Wakefield, 23 miles (37 km) north-west of Sheffield and 24 miles (39 km) north-east of Manchester. It is the main administrative centre of Kirklees and is the largest town in the borough.
Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is an English professional football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Founded on 15 August 1908, it entered the Football League in 1910. The team currently compete in the Championship, the second tier of English football.
Ronald Staniforth was an English footballer, described as a tall, cultured full-back. His attacking excursions down the right wing sometimes caused concern to his team's supporters but probably more to his opponents.
Thomas Wilson was a footballer who was a member of the Huddersfield Town team that won the Football League three times in the 1920s.
Donald William McEvoy was a professional footballer, who played principally for Huddersfield Town, his home-town club, and Sheffield Wednesday and latterly for Lincoln City and Barrow, who were then in the Fourth Division. He later went on to manage Halifax Town, Barrow (twice), Grimsby Town and Southport.
Jim Glazzard was a professional footballer, who spent most of his career at Huddersfield Town, where he became a fans' favourite. After playing as an amateur for Altofts Colliery he signed for the club in October 1943 and played his first game for the first team in the Wartime League (North) in the same month. His first game after the resumption of the Football League was in August 1946 and his last was in April 1956. Apart from one season (1952–53) Huddersfield were in the First Division of the Football League throughout this period.
Victor Metcalfe was a professional footballer who was born in Barrow-in-Furness where his father played rugby league for Barrow.
Harold Cawthorne was a professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town & Sheffield United.
Edwin "Ted" Davis was a professional footballer, who played for Clapton Orient, Huddersfield Town & Blackburn Rovers.
William Alexander Devlin was a Scottish professional football centre forward, best remembered for his two spells in the Scottish League with Cowdenbeath, for whom he scored 123 goals in 155 appearances. He also played for Scottish League clubs Heart of Midlothian, King's Park, Clyde and for Football League clubs Huddersfield Town and Liverpool.
Howard Charles Slade was a professional footballer, who played for Aston Villa, Huddersfield Town, Middlesbrough and Darlington.
Alexander Smith is a former professional footballer, who played for Ossett Albion, Bradford City, Huddersfield Town, Southend United, Colchester United and Halifax Town.
Samuel James T. Taylor was an English professional footballer, who played at inside forward for various clubs in the 1920s, including Huddersfield Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton.
Frederick Walker was a professional footballer. He played for Leeds City and Huddersfield Town. He was also first manager for Huddersfield Town and their only player-manager. He is the English footballer for Leeds and Huddersfield.
John Fowler Chaplin was a Scottish football player and manager. A left back, Chaplin played for Dundee over two spells, winning the Scottish Cup in 1910, and represented the Scottish League. He also played for Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City in England.
Edward Magner was a professional Association football manager. He managed Denmark before moving on to Huddersfield Town, where he managed during the Second World War, and Derby County, where he won a double of the Football League North and Midlands Cup in the 1944–45 season.
The 1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final was an association football match which was played on 28 May 1995 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Huddersfield Town and Bristol Rovers. It was to determine the second team to gain promotion from the Football League Second Division to the First Division. Only Birmingham City, the champions of the 1994–95 Football League Second Division league, gained automatic promotion to the First Division due to the reduction of the Premier League from 22 to 20 teams. The sides placed from second to fifth place in the table took part in play-offs. The winners of the play-off semi-finals competed for the final place for the 1995–96 season in the First Division. The losing semi-finalists were Brentford and Crewe Alexandra who had been defeated by Huddersfield and Bristol Rovers respectively.
Huddersfield Town's 2011–12 campaign was Huddersfield Town's eighth consecutive season in the third tier of English football. After losing to Peterborough United in the play-off final the previous season, Town hoped to avoid the play-offs and push for automatic promotion this season.
The 2020–21 Huddersfield Town Football Club season is the club's 112th season in existence and second consecutive season in the EFL Championship. Huddersfield Town will also compete in the FA Cup and competed in the EFL Cup. The season covers the period from 23 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.
Sorba Thomas is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for the club Huddersfield Town.
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- Ian Thomas, Owen Thomas, Alan Hodgson, John Ward (2007). 99 Years and Counting: Stats and Stories. Huddersfield Town A.F.C. ISBN 978-0955728105.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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