Thomas Hacking

Thomas James Hacking (23 June 1857 - 21 November 1934) was an English footballer, who was a goalkeeper for Blackburn Olympic in its FA Cup-winning side in 1883.

[6] However he finished the season with a winners' medal in the 1881–82 East Lancashire Charity Cup, as Olympic beat Blackburn Rovers 5–2 in the final in August 1882, the final delayed significantly as Olympic successfully protested its defeat to Accrington on the basis that the Owd Reds had fielded an ineligible player.

[11] Hacking refused to turn professional, his final FA Cup match coming in a 3–2 defeat to the now-dominant - and much better-backed - Rovers in 1884–85,[12] and had more or less retired from the game by 1885; he was registered as an amateur player only for the 1885–86 season.

[16] Hacking never played international football, but he did represent the Lancashire Association in inter-county matches between 1881[17] and 1884.

[18] Hacking worked as a dentist in Blackburn until he retired to run a boarding establishment in Llandudno called "Stratford", on Craig-y-Don Parade, in 1922.