Albert Hoskins

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Albert Hoskins
Personal information
Full name	Albert Herbert Hoskins
Date of birth	1885
Place of birth	Southampton, England
Date of death	19 February 1968
Place of death	Southampton, England
Playing position	Forward
Youth clubs
	St. Mary's Guild
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1906-1908 1908-1910	Freemantle Southampton Wolverhampton Wanderers Dudley Town Shrewsbury Town	21 (0) 14 (2)
Teams managed
1924-1926 1926-1929 1929-1930	Wolverhampton Wanderers Gillingham Torquay United
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Albert Herbert Hoskins (1885-1968) was an English football forward and football manager born in Southampton, England.

Albert Hoskins played for Freemantle and Southampton before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1908. He played 14 league games in the 1908-09 and 1909-10 seasons, before playing for Dudley Town and Shrewsbury Town.

He joined the office staff at Wolves and eventually became the club secretary in 1922. As secretary he also acted as assistant to Wolves' managers Jack Addenbrooke and George Jobey, taking over as manager in May 1924, combining his secretarial duties with those of managing the playing side.

His first season in charge at Molineux saw Wolves finish 6th in Division Two, a vast improvement on the previous post-war seasons. The following season, Wolves continued to challenge at the top of the table, they would eventually finish in 4th place, but Hoskins surprisingly left Molineux to take to up a secretary-manager's post at Gillingham in March 1926. He spent almost three seasons at Gillingham, with the side always struggling in the lower reaches of Division Three (South) and left in 1929 to become secretary-manager at Torquay United, taking over from Percy Mackrill. His only full season in charge at Plainmoor saw Torquay finish 19th out of 22 sides, and he left in July 1930. He later worked as a trainer, coach and scout for a number of non-league sides up to the start of the war in 1939, at which point he left football

[edit] External links

• Albert Hoskins' management career stats at Soccerbase

[edit] References

• Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk (1992). The Alphabet of the Saints. ACL & Polar Publishing. ISBN 0-9514862-3-3. 
• Dennis Turner & Alex White (1993). Football Managers. Breedon Books. ISBN 1-873626-32-0. 
• Michael Joyce (2004). Football League Players' Records, 1888-1939. SoccerData. ISBN 1-899468-67-6. 

Preceded by George Jobey	Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. manager 1924-1926	Succeeded by Fred Scotchbrook
Preceded by Harry Curtis	Gillingham F.C. manager 1926-1929	Succeeded by Dick Hendrie
Preceded by Percy Mackrill	Torquay United F.C manager 1929-1930	Succeeded by Frank Womack