Hampson: Thomas (Tom)

1934-1939 (Player Details)

Wing Half

Born: Salford: 1916

Debut: v Chelsea (a): 27-12-1938

5’8 1/2” 10st 12lb (1938)

Hampson joined Leeds as a teenager from Droylsden in November 1934 but only played twice in five years before he was transferred to Oldham Athletic in August 1939. He did not get into their first team in the truncated 1939-40 season, but managed eighty-one games in wartime football. He had served as a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF and after his demob, he suffered a bad knee injury and had to retire. He became a plumber and died on 18th October 1947 aged thirty-one, after a fall in which he fractured his skull.