Billy Walton

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Billy Walton
Personal information
Date of birth (1871-08-06)6 August 1871
Place of birth Hockley Brook, Birmingham, England
Date of death 10 February 1963(1963-02-10) (aged 91)
Place of death Winson Green, Birmingham, England
Position(s)
Wing half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
18??–1888 Hockley Belmont
1888–1902 Small Heath 201 (56)
1903 Dudley Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Howard T. Walton (6 August 1871 – 10 February 1963) was an English footballer who played for Small Heath (now Birmingham City) for fourteen years. He made 232 appearances and scored 70 goals in all competitions.

Biography

Walton was born in Hockley Brook, Birmingham. He followed Small Heath from a young age; as a 14-year-old he watched the then Small Heath Alliance outclassed 4–0 by West Bromwich Albion in the semi-final of the 1885–86 FA Cup. On leaving school he trained to be a silversmith in the Hockley area of Birmingham now known as the Jewellery Quarter, and remained employed in that trade while playing football part-time.

In his younger days he played at

wing half
, where his tireless encouragement of the younger players earned him the nickname "Mother".

Walton's support for Birmingham was lifelong. He was a guest of the club for the official opening of the

1956
, and visited St Andrew's regularly until not long before his death.

He died in Dudley Road Hospital, Winson Green, Birmingham, at the age of 91.

Honours

Notes

  1. test matches, in which the bottom club in the First Division played off against the top club from the Second Division, in one-off games at neutral venues, the winners to play in the following season's First Division. Small Heath drew 1–1 with Newton Heath
    but lost the replay 5–2, so were not promoted despite winning the division.

References
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