Billy Walker

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Billy Walker
Personal information
Full name	William Walker
Date of birth	October 25, 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 clubs
1914-1919	Aston Villa
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1919-1933	Aston Villa	478 (214)[1]
National team
19??-19??	England	018 00(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 his entire playing career, retiring in 1934.

He made 531 appearances for Villa between 1919 and 1933, 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. 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

Winner

• 1920 FA Cup

Runner Up

• 1924 FA Cup

[edit] Honours as manager

[edit] Sheffield Wednesday

Winner

• 1935 FA Cup

[edit] Nottingham Forest

Winner

• 1959 FA Cup

Runner Up

• 1957 Football League Second Division

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Billy Walker career stats at AdrianBullock.com

v • d • e Sheffield Wednesday F.C. – Managers Dickinson (1891–1920) • B. 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 (1983c) • Wilkinson (1983–1988) • Eustace (1988–1989) • Atkinson (1989–1991) • Francis (1991–1995) • Pleat (1995–1997) • Shreeves (1997c) • Atkinson (1997–1998) • Wilson (1998–2000) • Shreeves (2000c) • Jewell (2000–2001) • Shreeves (2001) • Yorath (2001–2002) • Green (2002c) • Turner (2002–2004) • Smith (2004c) • Sturrock (2004–2006) • McAuley (2006c) • Laws (2006–) (c) caretaker

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–)