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Morgan Hunt
Personal information
Full name	Morgan Marshall Hunt
Date of birth	5 March 1931
Place of birth	Llantrisant, Wales
Date of death	February 2012 (aged 80)
Place of death	Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position	Half-back
Youth career
	Askern Youth Club
	Askern Welfare
Senior career*
Years	Team
1953–1958	Doncaster Rovers
1958–1959	Norwich City
1959–1960	Port Vale
1960–1961	Boston United
	Askern Welfare
Total
Managerial career
	Askern Welfare
1979–1980	Doncaster Rovers Belles
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Morgan Marshall Hunt (5 March 1931 – February 2012) was a Welsh footballer who played as a half-back. He played for Doncaster Rovers and later managed the club's ladies team.^[3]

Career

Hunt played for Askern Welfare before joining Peter Doherty's Doncaster Rovers in 1953. The club finished 12th in the Second Division in 1953–54. The Belle Vue club finished 18th in 1954–55, 17th in 1955–56, and 14th in 1956–57, before suffering relegation in last place in 1957–58. He spent the 1958–59 campaign at Norwich City, playing seven games as the "Canaries" finished two places and four points off the Third Division promotion places. He joined Norman Low's Port Vale for a four-figure fee in July 1959.^[1] Despite the money spent acquiring him, he only played two Third Division games for the club before being released at the end of the season.^[1] He later played for Boston United in the Southern League before returning to his old club Askern Welfare as the player-manager. Hunt went on to manage Doncaster Rovers Belles L.F.C. for the 1979–80 season.

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^[4]^[5]
Club	Season	League			FA Cup		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Doncaster Rovers	1953–54	Second Division	5	0	0	0	5	0
	1954–55	Second Division	16	0	5	0	21	0
	1955–56	Second Division	11	0	0	0	11	0
	1956–57	Second Division	12	1	0	0	12	1
	1957–58	Second Division	6	1	0	0	6	1
	Total		50	2	5	0	55	2
Norwich City	1958–59	Third Division	7	0	1	0	8	0
Port Vale	1959–60	Third Division	2	0	0	0	2	0
Boston United	1960–61	Southern League Premier Division	21	2	2	0	23	2

1 2 3 4 5 Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 146. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
↑ Kent, Jeff (1990). "Flattering Only to Deceive (1960–1969)". The Valiants' Years: The Story Of Port Vale. Witan Books. pp. 196–226. ISBN 0-9508981-4-7.
↑ "Morgan Hunt". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Archived from the original on 8 June 2024. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
↑ Morgan Hunt at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
↑ "Statistics Season 1960/61". bufc.drfox.org.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2023.