Lily Parr

Lily Parr
Personal information
Full name Lilian Parr
Date of birth (1905-04-26)26 April 1905
Place of birth St Helens, Lancashire, England
Date of death 22 May 1978(1978-05-22) (aged 73)
Place of death Goosnargh, Preston, England
Height 5 ft 11+14 in (1.81 m)
Position(s) Outside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1919 St. Helens Ladies
1920–1951 Dick, Kerr Ladies
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lilian Parr (26 April 1905 – 24 May 1978) was an English professional women's association football player who played as a winger. She is best known for playing for the Dick, Kerr's Ladies team, which was founded in 1917 and based in Preston, Lancashire.[1]

In 2002, she was the only woman to be made an inaugural inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame at the National Football Museum.[2]

  1. ^ Jacobs, Barbara (July 2004). The Dick, Kerr's Ladies. Constable and Robinson. ISBN 1-84119-828-5.
  2. ^ Ian Herbert (2 December 2002). "Football's Hall of Fame snubs Sir Geoff, hat-trick hero of 1966 and all that". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2011.

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