Hermann Enderlin (* 24 September 1906; † 18 May 1973) was a Swiss-German
footballer
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who played for
FC Basel
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. He played mainly in the position of
defender, but also as
midfielder
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. He was known as Enderlin (II) because his brother
Alfred Enderlin (I) played for Basel during the same period, but as a
forward
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.
Club career
Between the years 1926 and 1935 Enderlin (II) played a total of 182 games for Basel scoring just one goal. 109 of these games were in the
Swiss Serie A, twenty in the
Swiss Cup
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and 53 were friendly games.
He scored his only goal during the test game in Norway, in
Porsgrunn
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, against
Urædd FK on 9 June 1930.
A well-documented curiosity was that at the end of
Basel's 1929–30 season, the team set off on a Scandinavian football tour, including a visit to Germany. Six games were played in Norway, but the first was played in
Leipzig
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. The team travelled with 15 players, their trainer
Kertész and two functionaries. The journey started with a train ride on 2 June 1930 at quarter past seven in the morning from Basel and they arrived in Leipzig at half passed eight that evening. The game against