Joseph Dines

Joseph Frank Dines (12 April 1886 – 27 September 1918) was an English amateur footballer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Key Information

Personal information
Date of birth	(1886-04-12)12 April 1886
Place of birth	King's Lynn, England
Date of death	27 September 1918(1918-09-27) (aged 32)
Place of death	Pas-de-Calais, France
Position	Centre half
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Lynn All Saints
	Lynn United
1904–1910	Lynn Town
	→ Norwich City (guest)
	→ Woolwich Arsenal (guest)
	→ Queens Park Rangers (guest)
1910–1912	Ilford
1912	Liverpool	1	(0)
	Ilford
	Walthamstow Avenue
	Millwall
	Lynn Town
International career
	England amateur	27	(0)
1912	Great Britain	3	(0)
Medal record Men's football Representing  Great Britain 1912 Stockholm Team competition
Men's football
Representing  Great Britain
	1912 Stockholm	Team competition
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
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He represented Great Britain as part of the England national amateur football team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament.^[2] He played all three matches.

Dines was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he worked as a school teacher alongside playing local football in the town.^[3] He is listed in the 1901 census as a National Schools' Monitor.^[4] Dines later moved to the Ilford/South Woodford area, playing for local non-league club Ilford. Dines resisted attempts to become a professional, however played for Liverpool, Walthamstow Avenue and Millwall, as well as featuring for Norwich City and Woolwich Arsenal's reserves during his time at Lynn Town.^[5] During the First World War, he served in the Army Ordnance Corps, the Middlesex Regiment, the Machine Gun Corps and latterly as a second-lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment.^[3] He was killed, aged 31, in Pas-de-Calais on the Western Front, He is buried in Harvincourt.^[6]