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I was curious as to how many players have scored Hat-Tricks for United over the years. I think this is correct - Silent Blade / Revolution will tell me if i'm wrong.

Players to have scored hat-tricks for United (brackets denote how many).

  1. Harry Hammond (5)
  2. William Edgar (1)
  3. George Walls (1)
  4. Ernest Needham (1)
  5. Billy Beer (1)
  6. Fred Priest (1)
  7. Arthur Brown (6)
  8. Jimmy Simmons (1)
  9. Joe Kitchen (2)
  10. Dicky Leafe (2)
  11. Billy Gillespie (3)
  12. Harry Johnson (20)
  13. Bert Menlove (2)
  14. David Mercer (1)
  15. Jimmy Shankly (1)
  16. Jimmy Dunne (12)
  17. Bobby Barclay (2)
  18. Willie Boyd (2)
  19. Mick Kilourhy (1)
  20. Jack Pickering (1)
  21. Jock Dodds (4)
  22. Jimmy Hagan (2)
  23. Colin Collindridge (1)
  24. Albert Nightingale (1)
  25. Dennis Thompson (1)
  26. George Jones (1)
  27. Fred Smith (1)
  28. Harold Brook (2)
  29. Alf Ringstead (3)
  30. Derek Hawksworth (3)
  31. Len Browning (1)
  32. Arthur Bottom (1)
  33. Colin Grainger (1)
  34. Jack Wilkinson (1)
  35. Tommy Hoyland (1)
  36. Billy Russell (2)
  37. Derek Pace (7)
  38. Len Allchurch (1)
  39. John Tudor (1)
  40. Gil Reece (1)
  41. Alan Woodward (3)
  42. Billy Dearden (1)
  43. Chris Guthrie (1)
  44. Alan Young (1)
  45. Keith Edwards (7)
  46. Colin Morris (1)
  47. Brian Deane (3)
  48. Tony Agana (2)
  49. Dane Whitehouse (1)
  50. Jan-Aage Fjortoft (2)
  51. Petr Katchouro (1)
  52. Marcus Bent (2)
  53. Carl Asaba (1)
  54. Peter Ndlovu (1)
  55. Paul Peschisolido (1)
  56. James Beattie (1)
  57. Billy Sharp (3)
  58. Darius Henderson (1)
  59. Ched Evans (1)
  60. Harry Chapman (1)
  61. Leon Clarke (2)
The last player to score a Hat-Trick was Billy Sharp v Aston Villa in February 2019

Players to score FOUR GOALS in as single match are:
  • Harry Hammond (3 times)
  • Arthur Brown (1)
  • Billy Gillespie (1)
  • Harry Johnson (8)
  • Jimmy Dunne (3)
  • Willie Boyd (1)
  • Jock Dodds (1)
  • Derek Pace (1)
  • Alan Woodward (1)
  • Keith Edwards (1)
  • Leon Clarke (1)
Players to score FIVE GOALS in a single match are:
  • Harry Hammond (1)
  • Harry Johnson (1)
 



Silent Blade said:
Older brother of the legendary Bill

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I’m sure they were a group of fine upstanding citizens but just to be on the safe side , if they were to move in next door I would take great care not to fall out with any of them , especially left and right on the back row but even more so the mother .:eek:
 
Not only did Harry Hammond score five hat tricks for us but he was our first ever player to get a red card! Surely he deserves a statue for that? Wilder would love him. Culture carrier! What happened after he was sent off was brilliant...

"Having been dismissed in an away fixture with Crewe in April 1892 Hammond actually believed his life was in danger and fled from the ground, hiding at Crewe station until the rest of the United party arrived."

Also a good snippet on his departure from this world...

"After he finished playing football Hammond became a publican in Bolton where it was reported he died whilst playing billiards in his pub."

Top lad!
 



Now gone down a Harry Johnson wormhole. His debut sounds insane...

"He played his first match in United colours for a Reserve side at Heckmondwike, and upset the home fans who 'displayed a certain amount of animosity,' and one irate man even waved an unloaded gun at him."
 
BalticBlade said:
Not only did Harry Hammond score five hat tricks for us but he was our first ever player to get a red card! Surely he deserves a statue for that? Wilder would love him. Culture carrier!
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He might have been sent off but red cards weren't introduced until the 1970s.
 
Silent Blade said:
Goalscoring became easier after the offside rules were changed in 1925, many defenders couldnt cope with the new rules and didnt stay long in League football.
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I always like to say that the backpass rule killed Simon Tracey's career. It didn't as he continued on for another decade after the rule change, but i think he suffered a lot because of the rule change, since keepers have evolved into secondary sweepers in the modern game.

He did seem to make some howlers rushing out for the ball and either took out the man, the man and ball, neither when he would come out.

Nothing to do with Hat-tricks and still one of my favourite keepers but you mentioned rule changes, so it's basically your fault for my little tangent :D
 
SwissBlade said:
I always like to say that the backpass rule killed Simon Tracey's career. It didn't as he continued on for another decade after the rule change, but i think he suffered a lot because of the rule change, since keepers have evolved into secondary sweepers in the modern game.

He did seem to make some howlers rushing out for the ball and either took out the man, the man and ball, neither when he would come out.

Nothing to do with Hat-tricks and still one of my favourite keepers but you mentioned rule changes, so it's basically your fault for my little tangent :D
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He was our most sent off player until Chris Morgan.overtook him 2010ish.
 
SwissBlade said:
Ha ha i hadn't looked for that stat, but i can believe that. He was some boy. Seemed to have the attention span of a goldfish but was cracking keeper.
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I remember United fans at away games behind the goal often shouting out the afternoon’s horse racing results to Simon Tracey, who always gave a wink and a thumbs up (or sometimes thumbs down).
 
It's mad that we only scored one league hat-trick in the entire six seasons we were in League One.

That was Ched Evans against Chesterfield in 2011-12.
 
I think when we beat Southend 6-0, didn't Brian Deane get a hat trick in the first half?
Tony Agana in the second half?.
 
Tickhill Blade said:
The current 7 year run without one must be up there with the longest barren run?
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Not that surprising though is it?

We don't play attacking football and in recent years haven't owned prolific goalscorers.

It would be interesting (if anyone can be arsed) to see the top three goalscorers in all competitions since 1960.

Sure, Edwards, Sharp, Ched, even Michael Brown had purple patches, but for real success you need a 20+ top scorer, two on over ten and at least five with ten or less.

Tell me out of the current squad who fits that profile?
 



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