Biography
Scottish journeyman inside right Bill White joined the Tigers in June 1938 and Ernest Blackburn slotted him straight into the first team at the start of the 1938/39 season. White had impressed the City coaching staff when he struck a hattrick against them for Lincoln City eighteen months previously, but he clearly didn’t make a similar impression in black and amber because he was replaced by another experienced forward Billy Dickinson after two starts and made no further appearances, leaving the club in the 1939 close season.
William Walter White hailed from Kirkcaldy in Fifeshire and as a youngster was part of the family banjo playing troop. In the late 1920s he played for Musselburgh Bruntonians, a junior side located to the east of Edinburgh. In 1929/30 season he scored 44 goals for Musselburgh, form that encouraged Charlton Athletic to sign him in July 1930. After only five months Charlton needed to trim their wage bill and offloaded White to Gillingham, where he spent a season and a half and scored 18 goals in 64 starts. He moved to Aldershot in May 1932 where his scoring form continued, in two seasons he netted 10 times in 71 matches. White headed north to sign for Carlisle United in the 1934 close season but after just eight starts he had joined Newport County in November 1934. He started 19 games and scored just 3 times for the South Wales side before moving to Bristol City in June 1935. At Ashton Gate he rediscovered his form with 15 goals in 50 league starts in a season and a half. In January 1937 he joined Lincoln City and within two weeks of his move he hit a hattrick in a 5-0 defeat of Hull City. He left Lincoln in the 1938 close season having made 46 starts and scored 11 goals.
Bill spent the early months of the 1939/40 season at Dundee United before World War 2 drew his career to a close and the trail of his life runs cold.
Details
Nationality: Scotland
Date/Place of Birth: 24 May 1907, Kirkcaldy
Hull City First Game: 27 August 1938, Chester A (Division Three North), 31 years, 95 days old
Hull City Final Game: 29 August 1938, Oldham Athletic H (Division Three North), 31 years, 97 days old
Clubs
Musselburgh Bruntonians, Charlton Athletic (1930), Gillingham (1930-1932), Aldershot (1932-1934), Carlisle United (1934), Newport County (1934-1935), Bristol City (1935-1937), Lincoln City (1937-1938), Hull City (1938-1939), Dundee United (1939)
Hull City Record
Career: 2 apps, 0 goals
Bill White| Season | LGE App | LGE Gls | FAC App | FAC Gls | FLC App | FLC Gls | EUR App | EUR Gls | OTH App | OTH Gls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938/39 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |