Biography

Outside left Arthur Prince signed for Hull City in June 1928. he was an experienced operator in the Second Division and started five of the first six league fixtures of the 1928/29 season. Arthur dropped out the first team due to knee injury in mid-September and another new signing, young Scotsman Dally Duncan, was handed the outside left shirt. Arthur was unable to regain his first team place and had an operation on his knee in January 1929 that further hampered his game time. Prince was released by the Tigers in May 1929.
Arthur Prince was born in Bucknall, a Potteries town north east of Stoke on Trent and raised by his widowed mother along with his seven siblings. In his teenage years he worked as a crate maker for the potteries industry and played local league football for Bucknall FC. In October 1922 he was signed by Division Two side Port Vale and made his Football League debut in February 1923 against Blackpool. Prince was a regular for the Valiants first team in the 1923/24 season and was signed by Sheffield Wednesday in May 1924 for a £750 fee, having made 43 senior starts for Port Vale.
Arthur was a first team regular for the Owls during the 1924/25 season, but didn’t make a first team start in the 1925/26 season until late October. He finally scored his first senior goal in November 1925 against his former club Port Vale (of course!) and added a further five goals during the rest of the season as Sheffield Wednesday won the Division Two title. Elevated to the First Division, Prince was not regarded as a first teamer and over the next two seasons he made only one senior appearance in a March 1928 2-2 draw against Leicester City, in which Prince scored the Owls’ equaliser. He left Hillsborough in June 1928 having made 54 starts for the club and scored seven goals.
Prince joined Cheshire County League side Chester in September 1929 but with a couple of weeks he was back in the Football League, signing for Division Three South side Walsall. He made only one appearance for Walsall in October 1929 and signed for Bristol Rovers in August 1930. He left Rovers after one season in which he didn’t break into the first team and retired from playing in 1931. Unable to make a living in football, Prince worked as a coal miner in Tamworth initially before moving to Nuneaton in the late 1930s to work in a local colliery. Arthur remained in Nuneaton for the rest of his life and died in the summer of 1980.
Details
Nationality: England
Date/Place of Birth: 8 December 1902, Bucknall
Hull City First Game: 25 August 1928, Southampton H (Division Two), 25 years, 261 days old
Hull City Final Game: 12 September 1928, Middlesbrough A (Division Two), 25 years, 279 days old
Clubs
Bucknall FC, Port Vale (1922-1924), Sheffield Wednesday (1924-1928), Hull City (1928-1929), Chester (1929), Walsall (1929-1930), Bristol Rovers (1930-1931)
Hull City Record
Career: 5 apps, 0 goals
Arthur PrinceSeason | LGE App | LGE Gls | FAC App | FAC Gls | FLC App | FLC Gls | EUR App | EUR Gls | OTH App | OTH Gls |
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1928/29 | 5 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |