Sam Lyon

Sam Lyon, born on 20 November 1890 and died in December 1977, was an English professional footballer who played as a centre forward in the Football League. He played for Barnsley and for Hull City, appearing in the top levels of English league football in the years around the First World War. His younger brother Jack also became a footballer. Lyon served in the Territorial Army between 1909 and 1913 and then in the East Yorkshire Regiment during the war, where wounds kept him in hospital for fifteen months. After the war he worked as a wholesale fish merchant and took up bowls, a sport in which he represented Yorkshire. His career statistics for the two league clubs are recorded in the Wikipedia biography that this entry is written from.