Colin Whalley
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
8 March 1941 Irby, Cheshire, England | ||
| Playing position | Center forward | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| Formby | |||
| Hightown | |||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | |
| England & Great Britain | 49 | ||
Colin James Campbell Whalley (born 8 March 1941) is an English former field hockey player who represented the Great Britain men's national field hockey team at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]He played hockey for Lancashire 153 times, and appeared for England 49 times.[2] He later became the manager of the England team during the 1986 Men's Hockey World Cup, with England finishing as runners-up.[2]
Whalley also played cricket at minor counties level for Cheshire from 1962–1965, making three appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.[3]
He was a bank manager by trade.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Colin James Campbell Whalley". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- ^ a b c "Fairbairn, Sir Robert Duncan". Fromby Hockey Club - History. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Colin Whalley". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- ^ "Hockey manager's winning return". Lincolnshire Echo. 28 August 1981. Retrieved 28 June 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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