Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 03 June 1938

Some Goalkeeper!

How our older readers remember ”Touch Em All”? Arthur Hall, to whom this was given after a remarkable feat playing football for Kilnhurst so 1015 as 1886, now lives at 12. Canklow Rotherham.

He will be 75 in August.

As a miner at Kilnhurst Colliery he was playing with the team against Stavelty in a  Sheffield and Hallamshire Cup final at Bramall Lane. During the match he punched a ball away from the Kilhhurst goalmouth and the result was that the ball left the ground, smashed a public house widow, and did damage to the between £30 and £40.

The distance from the goal to the ball measured 98 yards.

Mr Hall had similar experiences in later games—though the damage was not so extensive.