Benny Green (footballer)
Benjamin Haigh Green was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward. He scored 117 goals from 406 matches in the Football League playing for Barnsley, Small Heath, Burnley, Preston North End and Blackpool.
He made nearly 200 appearances for Small Heath / Birmingham in all competitions, and scored the first goal at the club's new ground, St Andrew's, on 29 December 1906, three days after the official opening, for which he was rewarded with a piano.
Green was born in Penistone, Yorkshire, and was killed in action in France in 1917, where he was serving as a private with the King's Own.
