Billy Kingdon

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Billy Kingdon
Personal information
Full name William Issacher Garfield Kingdon
Date of birth 25 June 1905(1905-06-25)
Place of birth    Worcester, England
Date of death    18 March 1977 (aged 71)
Place of death    Weymouth, England
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position Half back
Youth clubs
Kepex (Worcester)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1924–1925
1925–1936
1936–1938
1938–????		 Kidderminster Harriers
Aston Villa
Southampton
Yeovil & Petters United
223 0(5)
049 0(1)
   
National team
1926 England Junior 001 0(0)
Teams managed
1938–1946
1947–1948		 Yeovil & Petters United
Weymouth

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

William (Billy) Issacher Garfield Kingdon (born Worcester 25 July 1907, died Weymouth 18 March 1977) was a footballer who played, as a wing-half, over 240 games for Aston Villa.

Kingdon joined Villa from Kidderminster Harriers in 1925 and left in 1936 to join Southampton. In his time at Villa Park, Villa were moderately successful, reaching the Football League runners-up position twice, in 1930–31 and 1932–33, and the FA Cup semi-final in 1933–34. After this there came a period of decline, culminating in relegation in 1935–36, thereby becoming the last of the founder members of the football league to lose top flight status for the first time.

At Southampton he displayed "a nice line in distribution and looked to be an asset".[1] In 1936–37 he formed a useful partnership with fellow half-backs Bill Kennedy and Cyril King and only missed one game, although Southampton struggled near the bottom of Division 2. He briefly became team captain until, in September 1937, new manager Tom Parker acquired the services of Scottish international Frank Hill, who had won the Football League title three times with Arsenal (in 1932–33, 1933–34 and 1934–35). Hill immediately took over both the captaincy and Bill's No. 6 shirt, and after Hill's arrival, Kingdon only made one further appearance, and in January 1938 joined Yeovil & Petters United as player-manager.

He remained with Yeovil for the duration of World War II, but in 1946 he returned to his trade as a carpenter. In 1947 he accepted the position as manager at Weymouth, combining this with running the Fountain Hotel in Weymouth.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk (1992). The Alphabet of the Saints. ACL & Polar Publishing, p.200. ISBN 0-9514862-3-3. 

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