[3] He also won the Southern League title with Brighton & Hove Albion in the 1909–10 season and with Watford in 1914–15.
Hastings was born in West Hartlepool, County Durham, and played for Spennymoor United and West Hartlepool[4] before moving south to join Brighton & Hove Albion in the summer of 1909.
He missed only one game as the club won the Southern League title and the Southern Charity Cup in his first season,[5] and set up Charlie Webb's goal as Albion beat reigning Football League champions Aston Villa in the 1910 FA Charity Shield.
[7] After serving in the Royal Flying Corps,[5] Hastings returned home to play a few games for North Eastern League club Hartlepools United.
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