# Harry Hardy

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For the baseball player, see [Harry Hardy (baseball)](/source/Harry_Hardy_(baseball)).

**Henry Hardy** (14 January 1895 – 17 February 1969) was a [football](/source/Association_football) player from [Stockport](/source/Stockport), England, regarded as one of the best players that [Stockport County](/source/Stockport_County_FC) have ever had. He was the first, and to date the only, player for Stockport County to win an [England](/source/England_national_football_team) cap. Hardy made 207 appearances for Stockport. He made his unremarkable debut against Cardiff on 4 September 1920, conceding three goals. He then went on the make 170 consecutive appearances for the club before he missed his first County game, a 1–1 draw with Southampton on 11 October 1924, due to his involvement with the Football League representative side. He also played for [Everton](/source/Everton_F.C.) and [Bury](/source/Bury_F.C.).

He is thought of as County's best ever goalkeeper. His statistics, though, in the Hatters' Division Three (North) championship season in 1922, are remarkable.

Hardy was an ever-present conceding just 21 goals, a club record that stands to this day. He kept 23 clean sheets in his 38 games, which included a quite incredible 20 from his side's opening 27 games of the campaign

Hardy held the club's individual goalkeeping record for not conceding a goal for an amazing 85 years til it was beaten by current Welsh International goalkeeper [Wayne Hennessey](/source/Wayne_Hennessey). When Blackpool's Barrass scored a 77-minute goal at Edgeley Park on 30 April 1921 Hardy was not beaten again until Tommy Robson scored an own goal at Southport on 8 October 1921 – 755 minutes later.

## References

1. "The lure of promotion. Stockport County". *Athletic News*. 13 August 1923. p. 6.

- ["Biography About Harry Harding"](http://www.stockportcounty.premiumtv.co.uk/page/PastPlayersDetail/0,,10419~412741,00.html)[dead link]

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