# Fred Hopkinson

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Not to be confused with [Frederick Hopkinson](/source/Frederick_Hopkinson).

**Fred Hopkinson** (26 April 1908 – 1986) was an English [footballer](/source/Association_football) who made 221 appearances in the [Football League](/source/English_Football_League) playing as a [wing half](/source/Wing_half) or [inside right](/source/Inside_right) for [Darlington](/source/Darlington_F.C.) and [Barrow](/source/Barrow_A.F.C.) in the 1920s and 1930s. He was also on the books of [Sheffield Wednesday](/source/Sheffield_Wednesday_F.C.), but without representing that club in league competition, and played [non-league football](/source/Non-league_football) for [Shotton](/source/Shotton_F.C.), [Seaham Harbour](/source/Seaham_Harbour_F.C.), [Horden Colliery Welfare](/source/Horden_Colliery_Welfare)[4] and [South Shields](/source/South_Shields_F.C._(1936)).[5]

In 1933, Hopkinson and Darlington teammates [Harry Brown](/source/Harry_Brown_(footballer,_born_1907)), [Billy Eden](/source/Billy_Eden) and [Tom Halliday](/source/Tom_Halliday) were members of the Rest of Durham XI that faced [First Division](/source/Football_League_First_Division) club [Sunderland](/source/Sunderland_A.F.C.) in a match to celebrate the silver jubilee of the [Durham County Football Association](/source/Durham_County_Football_Association).[6]

Hopkinson was born in [Royton](/source/Royton), [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire),[4] the son of Samuel Hopkinson, a [piecer](/source/Spinning_mule), and his wife Martha.[1]

## References

1. ["Baptisms at St Paul in the Parish of Royton: Baptisms for the Years 1908–1911"](http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Oldham/Royton/stpaul/baptisms_1908-1911.html). Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks. Retrieved 1 April 2014.

1. ["Player search: Hopkinson, F (Fred)"](https://www.enfa.co.uk/playersearch.php). *English National Football Archive (ENFA)*. Retrieved 20 October 2023.

1. Veitch, Colin (11 August 1933). ["Darlington hope to land more players"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-chronicle-season-preview/133712458/). *Evening Chronicle*. p. 15. – via Newspapers.com.

1. Joyce, Michael (2004). *Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939*. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.

1. ["Hopkinson leaves Horden"](http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000378/19361001/198/0007). *Northern Daily Mail*. 1 October 1936. p. 7. – via British Newspaper Archive.

1. ["1932–33: Durham FA Jubilee Match"](http://www.thestatcat.co.uk/Match.aspx?MatchID=5566&LU=S&LUID=54). *thestatcat.co.uk*. Retrieved 1 April 2014.

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