George Hicks (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | George Wolstenholme Hicks | ||
| Date of birth | 30 April 1902 | ||
| Place of birth | Salford, England | ||
| Date of death | Not known | ||
| Playing position | Outside left | ||
| Youth career | |||
| – | Salford Lads Club | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| – | Droylsden | ||
| – | Manchester Central | ||
| 1923–1928 | Manchester City | 123 | (40) |
| 1928–1932 | Birmingham | 76 | (18) |
| 1932 | Manchester United | 0 | (0) |
| 1932–1933 | Bristol Rovers | 0 | (0) |
| 1933 | Swindon Town | 4 | (0) |
| 1933–1934 | Rotherham United | 28 | (6) |
| 1934–19?? | Manchester North End | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
George Wolstenholme Hicks (30 April 1902 – after 1934) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left. He made 231 appearances in the Football League.[1]
Born in Salford, Hicks joined Manchester City in November 1923.[2] He played for them in the 1926 FA Cup Final and contributed to them winning the Second Division championship in the 1927–28 season.[3] He signed for First Division club Birmingham in October 1928, and scored 12 league goals in what remained of that season. Early in the 1930–31 season he sustained a serious knee injury.[2] Though he attempted a comeback twelve months later, playing and scoring against Blackpool in September 1931, that game marked the end of his Birmingham career.[4] He moved to Manchester United in January 1932,[2] but left for Bristol Rovers later that year without having featured for the first team. A further year later, again without playing League football,[1] he joined Swindon Town, for whom he played four matches[5] before moving to his last Football League club, Rotherham United, where he missed only three games in the remainder of the 1933–34 season.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData (Tony Brown). p. 123. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matthews, p. 97.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "A–Z Past Players (Pre-1939)" (Word document). Rotherham United F.C. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ↑ Matthews, p. 174.
- ↑ "George Hicks". swindon-town-fc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2008.