Arthur Hollins (footballer)

Arthur Hollins was an English professional footballer who played at centre-forward for Southampton between 1914 and 1915.

Hollins was born in Wolverhampton and started his professional career at Walsall, without breaking into the first-team.

[2] He then joined Wellington Town of the Birmingham & District League; by 1914 he was attracting the attention of bigger clubs, including Wolverhampton Wanderers[2] of the Football League Second Division but instead chose to move to the south coast to join Southampton of the Southern League.

9 shirt for the remaining eleven matches of the season, scoring seven times including both goals in a 2–0 victory over Norwich City on 4 April, followed by a hat-trick at Millwall six days later on Good Friday.

[4] His football career was ended by the start of the First World War and he is believed to have joined the Royal Navy.