{{short description|English footballer}} {{distinguish|Frederick Hopkinson}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use British English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox football biography |name = Fred Hopkinson |image = |image_size = |caption = |fullname = Fred Hopkinson<ref name=Lancs/> |birth_date = {{birth date|1908|4|26|df=y}}<ref name=ENFA>{{cite web |url=https://www.enfa.co.uk/playersearch.php |title=Player search: Hopkinson, F (Fred) |website=English National Football Archive (ENFA) |access-date=20 October 2023 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=Lancs/> |birth_place = Royton, England |death_date = {{death year and age|1986|1908}}<ref name=ENFA /> |death_place = |height = 5 ft 7 in<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-chronicle-season-preview/133712458/ |title=Darlington hope to land more players |first=Colin |last=Veitch |newspaper=Evening Chronicle |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=11 August 1933 |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> |position = Wing half, inside right |youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = |years1 = |clubs1 = Shotton |years2 = |clubs2 = Seaham Harbour |years3 = 1927–1928 |clubs3 = Sheffield Wednesday |caps3 = 0 |goals3 = 0 |years4 = 1928–1934 |clubs4 = Darlington |caps4 = 158 |goals4 = 10 |years5 = 1934–1936 |clubs5 = Barrow |caps5 = 63 |goals5 = 2 |years6 = 1936 |clubs6 = Horden Colliery Welfare |years7 = 1936–19?? |clubs7 = South Shields }} '''Fred Hopkinson''' (26 April 1908 – 1986) was an English footballer who made 221 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half or inside right for Darlington and Barrow in the 1920s and 1930s. He was also on the books of Sheffield Wednesday, but without representing that club in league competition, and played non-league football for Shotton, Seaham Harbour, Horden Colliery Welfare<ref name=Joyce>{{cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |page=129 |date=2004 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}}</ref> and South Shields.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000378/19361001/198/0007 |title=Hopkinson leaves Horden |newspaper=Northern Daily Mail |location=West Hartlepool |date=1 October 1936 |page=7 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
In 1933, Hopkinson and Darlington teammates Harry Brown, Billy Eden and Tom Halliday were members of the Rest of Durham XI that faced First Division club Sunderland in a match to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Durham County Football Association.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thestatcat.co.uk/Match.aspx?MatchID=5566&LU=S&LUID=54 |title=1932–33: Durham FA Jubilee Match |website=thestatcat.co.uk |accessdate=1 April 2014}}</ref>
Hopkinson was born in Royton, Lancashire,<ref name=Joyce/> the son of Samuel Hopkinson, a piecer, and his wife Martha.<ref name=Lancs>{{cite web |url=http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Oldham/Royton/stpaul/baptisms_1908-1911.html |title=Baptisms at St Paul in the Parish of Royton: Baptisms for the Years 1908–1911 |publisher=Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks |accessdate=1 April 2014}}</ref>
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