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{{short description|English footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox football biography
|name = George Hunter
|fullname = George Charles Hunter<ref name="Joyce" />
|image = George Hunter - Aston Villa.jpg
|image_size = 150px
|caption = Hunter with [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] in 1910
|birth_date = {{birth date|1885|6|2|df=y}}<ref name="Joyce" />
|birth_place = [[Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Nowshera]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]], [[Pakistan]])
|death_date = {{death date and age|1934|1|20|1885|6|2|df=y}}<ref name="FATFWW" />
|death_place = [[Lambeth]], England
|height = 5ft 7.5in<ref name="Croydon" />
|position = [[Half back (association football)|Half back]]
|years1 =
|clubs1 = [[Maidstone United F.C. (1897)|Maidstone United]]
|caps1 =
|goals1 =
|years2 = 1907–1908
|clubs2 = [[Croydon Common F.C.|Croydon Common]]
|caps2 = 13
|goals2 = 1
|years3 = 1908–1912
|clubs3 = [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]
|caps3 = 91
|goals3 = 1
|years4 = 1912–1913
|clubs4 = [[Oldham Athletic A.F.C.|Oldham Athletic]]
|caps4 = 40
|goals4 = 1
|years5 = 1913–1914
|clubs5 = [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]
|caps5 = 30
|goals5 = 2
|years6 = 1914–1915
|clubs6 = [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]]
|caps6 = 22
|goals6 = 2
|years7 = 1915–1916
|clubs7 = → [[Croydon Common F.C.|Croydon Common]] (wartime)
|caps7 = 18
|goals7 = 3
|years8 = 1916–1917
|clubs8 = → [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] (wartime)
|caps8 = 17
|goals8 = 0
|years9 = 1916–1918
|clubs9 = → [[Brentford F.C.|Brentford]] (wartime)
|caps9 = 18
|goals9 = 0
|years10 = 1918–1919
|clubs10 = → [[Birmingham F.C.|Birmingham]] (wartime)
|caps10 = 21
|goals10 = 2
|years11 = 1919
|clubs11 = [[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]]
|caps11 = 8
|goals11 = 0
|nationalteam1 = [[The Football League XI]]
|nationalyears1 =
|nationalcaps1 = 2
|nationalgoals1 = 0
}}

'''George Charles Hunter''' (2 June 1885 – 20 January 1934) was an English professional [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Half back (association football)|half back]] in the [[Football League]] for [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]], [[Oldham Athletic A.F.C.|Oldham Athletic]], [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] and [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]].

==Career==
Born in [[Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Nowshera]], [[British India]], Hunter played for [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]], [[Oldham Athletic F.C.|Oldham Athletic]] and [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] during his early career.<ref name="Joyce">{{Cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=Tony Brown |year=2012 |isbn=978-1905891610 |location=Nottingham |page=148}}</ref> In March 1914, he was sold to [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]].<ref name="FATFWW">{{Cite web |title=George Hunter |url=http://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/george-hunter-2/ |access-date=2 August 2015 |website=Football and the First World War}}</ref> He [[Captain (association football)|captained]] the club during the [[1914–15 Manchester United F.C. season|1914–15]] season and stayed with United until January 1915, when his contract was cancelled due to a [[Training ground (association football)|training ground]] incident.<ref name="FATFWW" /> He played for [[Croydon Common F.C.|Croydon Common]], [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]], [[Brentford F.C.|Brentford]] and [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham]] as a guest player during the [[First World War]] and finished his career with [[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]] of the [[Southern Football League|Southern League]] during the [[1919–20 Southern Football League|1919–20]] season.<ref name="Joyce" /><ref name="Croydon">{{Cite web |title=George Hunter |url=http://www.croydoncommon.com/HUNTER_George_Charles.pdf |access-date=10 April 2019 |website=Croydon Common Football Club}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=100 Years Of Brentford |publisher=Brentford FC |year=1989 |isbn=0951526200 |editor-last=White |editor-first=Eric |pages=363–365}}</ref>

==Military service==
Hunter joined the [[Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment]] of the [[British Army]] in December 1903, rising through the ranks to [[lance corporal]] by February 1906.<ref name="FATFWW" /> He served in Malta, but was found guilty of theft and [[receiving stolen goods]] by [[court-martial]] in December 1906 and served 140 days [[hard labour]] before being [[dishonourable discharge|discharged]] in May 1907.<ref name="FATFWW" />

Over a year after the outbreak of the [[World War I|First World War]] in August 1914, Hunter enlisted in the [[Royal Sussex Regiment]] in September 1915 and served in the 10th (Reserve) Battalion of the regiment until June 1916.<ref name="FATFWW" /> He was sent to [[Western Front (World War I)|France]] to join the 9th (Service) Battalion in August 1916, but bouts of [[dysentery]] saw him posted back to [[Great Britain|Britain]] as a [[fitness instructor]].<ref name="FATFWW" /> He was [[Demobilization|demobbed]] after the [[Armistice of 11 November 1918|Armistice with Germany]] in November 1918.<ref name="FATFWW" />

==Personal life==
After his retirement from football, Hunter worked as a [[sports writer]].<ref name="FATFWW" />

== Career statistics ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
! rowspan="2" |Club
! rowspan="2" |Season
! colspan="3" |League
! colspan="2" |FA Cup
! colspan="2" |Total
|-
!Division
!Apps
!Goals
!Apps
!Goals
!Apps
!Goals
|-
|[[Croydon Common F.C.|Croydon Common]]
|[[1907–08 Southern Football League|1907–08]]<ref name="Croydon" />
|[[Southern Football League|Southern League]] Second Division
|13
|1
|1
|0
|14
|1
|-
| rowspan="5" |[[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]]
|[[1908–09 Football League First Division|1908–09]]<ref name="Croydon" />
| rowspan="4" |[[Football League First Division|First Division]]
|15
|0
|1
|0
|16
|0
|-
|[[1909–10 Football League First Division|1909–10]]<ref name="Croydon" />
|32
|1
|3
|0
|35
|1
|-
|[[1910–11 Football League First Division|1910–11]]<ref name="Croydon" />
|33
|0
|2
|0
|35
|0
|-
|[[1911–12 Football League First Division|1911–12]]<ref name="Croydon" />
|11
|0
| colspan="2" |—
|11
|0
|-
! colspan="2" |Total
!91
!1
!6
!0
!97
!1
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Oldham Athletic A.F.C.|Oldham Athletic]]
|1911–12<ref name="Croydon" />
| rowspan="2" |First Division
|17
|1
|2
|0
|19
|1
|-
|[[1912–13 Football League First Division|1912–13]]<ref name="Croydon" />
|23
|0
|4
|0
|27
|0
|-
! colspan="2" |Total
!40
!1
!6
!0
!46
!1
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]]
|1912–13<ref name="Croydon" />
| rowspan="2" |First Division
|11
|1
| colspan="2" |—
|11
|1
|-
|[[1913–14 Football League First Division|1913–14]]<ref name="Croydon" />
|19
|1
|2
|0
|21
|1
|-
! colspan="2" |Total
!30
!2
!2
!0
!32
!2
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]]
|[[1913–14 Manchester United F.C. season|1913–14]]<ref name="Croydon" />
| rowspan="2" |First Division
|7
|0
| colspan="2" |—
|7
|0
|-
|[[1914–15 Manchester United F.C. season|1914–15]]<ref name="Croydon" />
|15
|2
|1
|0
|16
|2
|-
! colspan="2" |Total
!22
!2
!1
!0
!23
!2
|-
|[[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]]
|[[1919–20 Southern Football League|1919–20]]<ref name="Croydon" />
|Southern League First Division
|8
|0
|0
|0
|8
|0
|-
! colspan="3" |Career Total
!204
!7
!16
!0
!220
!7
|}

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
* [http://www.mufcinfo.com/manupag/a-z_player_archive/a-z_player_archive_pages/hunter_george.html MUFCInfo.com profile]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140407072029/http://www.aboutmanutd.com/man-u-players/george-hunter.html AboutManUtd.com profile]

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{{succession box|title=[[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] captain|before=[[George Stacey (footballer)|George Stacey]]|after=[[Patrick O'Connell (Irish footballer)|Patrick O'Connell]]|years=1914–1915}}
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