Billy Walker

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Billy Walker
Personal information
Full name	William Walker
Date of birth	October 29, 1897
Place of birth	Wednesbury, England
Date of death	November 28, 1964 (aged 67)
Place of death	Sheffield, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1914-1919	Aston Villa
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1919-34	Aston Villa	0531 00(244)
National team
1921-1929	England	018 0(8)
Teams managed
1933-1937 1938 1939-1960	Sheffield Wednesday Chelmsford City Nottingham Forest
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Billy Walker (29 October 1897 - 28 November 1964) was a prominent English footballer of the 1920s and 1930s.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Career honours 2.1 Honours as player 2.1.1 Aston Villa 2.2 Honours as manager 2.2.1 Sheffield Wednesday 2.2.2 Nottingham Forest 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

One of Aston Villa's true legends, Walker was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire. He joined Villa in 1914 and stayed at Villa Park for the rest of his playing career, retiring in 1934.

He made 531 appearances for Villa between 1914 and 1934, scoring 244 goals. He remains Aston Villa FC's all-time top goalscorer to this day. He was an FA Cup Winner with Villa in 1920.

Walker played for England 18 times, scoring 8 goals.

He also successfully managed Sheffield Wednesday leading them to the FA Cup in 1935, and Nottingham Forest from 1939 to 1960, bringing promotion to the First Division in 1956-57 and an FA Cup final triumph two years later (Beating Villa in the semis). He was also the first Englishman to score at Wembley, when he scored against Scotland on April 12, 1924.

[edit] Career honours

[edit] Honours as player

[edit] Aston Villa

Football League First Division

• Runners-up: 1931, 1933

FA Cup

• Winner: 1920
• Runners-up: 1924

[edit] Honours as manager

[edit] Sheffield Wednesday

FA Cup

• Winner: 1935

[edit] Nottingham Forest

FA Cup

• Winner: 1959

Football League Second Division

• Runners-up: 1957

Football League Third Division (North)

• Champions: 1951

FA Charity Shield

• Runners-up: 1959

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Billy Walker career stats at AdrianBullock.com

v • d • e Sheffield Wednesday F.C. – Managers Dickinson (1891–1920) · R. Brown (1920–1933) · Walker (1933–1937) · McMullan (1937–1942) · Taylor (1942–1958) · Catterick (1958–1961) · Buckingham (1961–1964) · A. Brown (1964–1968) · Marshall (1968–1969) · Williams (1969–1971) · Dooley (1971–1973) · Burtenshaw (1974–1975) · Ashurst (1975–1977) · Charlton (1977–1983) · Setters (caretaker) (1983) · Wilkinson (1983–1988) · Eustace (1988–1989) · Atkinson (1989–1991) · Francis (1991–1995) · Pleat (1995–1997) · Shreeves (caretaker) (1997) · Atkinson (1997–1998) · Wilson (1998–2000) · Shreeves (caretaker) (2000) · Jewell (2000–2001) · Shreeves (2001) · Yorath (2001–2002) · Green (caretaker) (2002) · Turner (2002–2004) · Smith (caretaker) (2004) · Sturrock (2004–2006) · McAuley (caretaker) (2006) · Laws (2006–)

v • d • e Nottingham Forest F.C. – Managers Radford (1889–97) · Haslam (1897–1909) · Earp (1909–12) · Masters (1912–25) · Baynes (1925–29) · Hardy (1930–31) · Watson (1931–36) · Wightman (1936–39) · Walker (1939–60) · Beattie (1960–63) · Carey (1963–68) · Gillies (1969–72) · Mackay (1972–73) · Brown (1973–75) · Clough (1975–93) · Clark (1993–96) · Pearce (1996–97) · Bassett (1997–99) · Adams (1999) · Atkinson (1999) · Platt (1999–2001) · Hart (2001–04) · Kinnear (2004) · Harford (2004–05) · Megson (2005–06) · Barlow & McParland (2006) · Calderwood (2006–08) · Pemberton (2008–09) · Davies (2009–)

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