Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jeffrey James Jeff Hall 7 September 1929 4 April 1959 was an English footballer who played as a right back for Birmingham City and England. It was the death of Jeff Hall a young, fit, international footballer from polio which helped to kick-start widespread public acceptance in Britain of the need for vaccination. Though the disease was generally feared and the Salk vaccine was available, takeup had been slow. In the weeks following Hall''s death emergency vaccination clinics had to be set up and supplies of the vaccine had to be flown in from the United States to cope with the demand. Jeff Hall was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire and brought up in Keighley, West Yorkshire. After leaving school in 1945 he played for various junior clubs in the area before joining his local Football League club, Bradford Park Avenue, then in the Second Division, where heremained an amateur and never made a first team appearance.