Personal information | |||
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Full name | Vincent Harold White | ||
Date of birth | 22 October 1897 | ||
Place of birth | Walsall, England | ||
Date of death | 27 August 1972 | (aged 74)||
Place of death | Southampton, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Wing half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Erdington | |||
Wednesbury Old Athletic | |||
1921–1923 | Birmingham | 2 | (0) |
Ellesmere Port | |||
Redditch Town | |||
1923–1925 | Watford | 7 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Vincent Harold White (22 October 1897 – 27 August 1972) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Birmingham and Watford. [2]
White was born in 1897 in Walsall, Staffordshire, [3] the son of Joseph White and his wife Emma. Joseph White worked in the brewery trade: he was steward of Walsall Conservative Club before taking over as manager of the New Inn in 1901, a pub previously held by the Welsh international footballer Caesar Jenkyns, [4] and the 1911 Census finds him living in the Erdington district of Birmingham and employed as a brewer's assistant. The 13-year-old Vincent was an office boy at an electrical engineering company. [5] White enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps and served with the 24th Battalion of the London Regiment during the First World War. [6] [3]
He had played football for his battalion team during the war, [3] and once demobilised, played amateur football for Erdington before turning professional, first with Wednesbury Old Athletic and then in 1921 with Birmingham. [1] A defensive wing half whose strength was his tackling, [7] White made his debut in the First Division on 8 April 1922, deputising for Percy Barton in a 2–1 defeat away at Tottenham Hotspur, and played in the next game, but lost his place once Barton was available for selection again. [8] Despite having played League football, he was selected for and played in a junior international between the Birmingham Association and the Scottish Junior XI at Aberdeen on 22 April. [1] [9] He spent time at non-league clubs Ellesmere Port and Redditch Town before joining Watford, [2] for whom he played seven Third Division South matches in the first of two seasons with the club. [3]
White married Lily Laura Edge in 1930. [10] The 1939 Register finds White working as a spray-painting foreman and living in Erdington with Lily and a school-age child. [11] He was resident in the Bassett district of Southampton at the time of his death in the city in 1972 aged 74. [12] [3]
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Vincent Harold White | ||
Date of birth | 22 October 1897 | ||
Place of birth | Walsall, England | ||
Date of death | 27 August 1972 | (aged 74)||
Place of death | Southampton, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Wing half | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
Erdington | |||
Wednesbury Old Athletic | |||
1921–1923 | Birmingham | 2 | (0) |
Ellesmere Port | |||
Redditch Town | |||
1923–1925 | Watford | 7 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Vincent Harold White (22 October 1897 – 27 August 1972) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Birmingham and Watford. [2]
White was born in 1897 in Walsall, Staffordshire, [3] the son of Joseph White and his wife Emma. Joseph White worked in the brewery trade: he was steward of Walsall Conservative Club before taking over as manager of the New Inn in 1901, a pub previously held by the Welsh international footballer Caesar Jenkyns, [4] and the 1911 Census finds him living in the Erdington district of Birmingham and employed as a brewer's assistant. The 13-year-old Vincent was an office boy at an electrical engineering company. [5] White enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps and served with the 24th Battalion of the London Regiment during the First World War. [6] [3]
He had played football for his battalion team during the war, [3] and once demobilised, played amateur football for Erdington before turning professional, first with Wednesbury Old Athletic and then in 1921 with Birmingham. [1] A defensive wing half whose strength was his tackling, [7] White made his debut in the First Division on 8 April 1922, deputising for Percy Barton in a 2–1 defeat away at Tottenham Hotspur, and played in the next game, but lost his place once Barton was available for selection again. [8] Despite having played League football, he was selected for and played in a junior international between the Birmingham Association and the Scottish Junior XI at Aberdeen on 22 April. [1] [9] He spent time at non-league clubs Ellesmere Port and Redditch Town before joining Watford, [2] for whom he played seven Third Division South matches in the first of two seasons with the club. [3]
White married Lily Laura Edge in 1930. [10] The 1939 Register finds White working as a spray-painting foreman and living in Erdington with Lily and a school-age child. [11] He was resident in the Bassett district of Southampton at the time of his death in the city in 1972 aged 74. [12] [3]