Robert Hoy (born 10 January 1950 in Halifax) made 273 appearances and scored 38 goals in the Football League playing as a midfielder in a creer spread across five clubs: Huddersfield Town, Halifax Town, Blackburn Rovers, York City and Rochdale. He later went on to play non-league football for Macclesfield Town. In later years he became as a folk singer working the Yorkshire club circuit and then delivered car parts for Dews Vauxhall in Lindley, Huddersfield.
Hoy came through the junior ranks at Town and made a name for himself as a flying winger between 1966 and 1985. He was famously a member of the squad that earned promotion to the top division having become Second Division Champions in May 1970. He was also one of the few who went on to play in all the divisions as Town slid all the way down to the basement in the 1970s. He made a total of 144 league appearances for Town, scoring 18 goals in the process.
Hoy died at Birchencliffe, Huddersfield on 1st January 2024.
The Huddersfield Town Collection 