Dennis White

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Dennis White
Personnel
birthday November 10, 1948
place of birth Hartlepool ,  England
date of death 19th June 2019
Place of death Stockton-on-Tees ,  England
position defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1973 AFC Hartlepool 58 (0)
South Shields FC
Bishop Auckland FC
1 Only league games are given.

Dennis White (born November 10, 1948 in Hartlepool , † June 19, 2019 in Stockton-on-Tees ) was an English football player .

Career

White was a junior player at Hartlepools United in 1967 and drew attention to himself in the reserve team in the Wearside League , so that the higher-class clubs AFC Sunderland and Middlesbrough FC also expressed interest. After he first played on October 13, 1967 in a 1-1 home game in the Football League Fourth Division against Lincoln City in the first team, he signed a part-time professional contract with Hartlepools in late October 1967, which allowed him to train as a welder complete. In addition to White, coach Gus McLean also provided his youthful teammates Eric Tunstall and Peter Blowman with contracts.

The 1967/68 season decided Hartlepools for the first time in the club's history on a promotion place - White had come here again in December for a use - and rose to the third division . In the course of his career but White remained a third division application denied, he came to after the rise in AFC Hartlepool renamed the club until the season 1969/70 again in the first team to use, the team was at the end of the third division season 1968-69 right back relegated to fourth class. Also in the fourth division, the team placed at the bottom of the table for the next two years and had to stand two times in a row as penultimate in the table for re-election to remain in the league.

White was part of the extended squad in the following years, both under Angus and under his successors John Simpson and Len Ashurst , the defender rarely held a place on the team for more than a month. Until his last appearance in April 1973, White played 58 league games and a total of five games in the FA Cup and League Cup . At the end of the 1972/73 season , after only three season assignments, he no longer received a new contract. By Players stations in the northeastern English amateur football at FC South Shields and the FC Bishop Auckland , he was for years for the reserve team of Hartlepool as a player active in organizational terms, as a player he ran at least until the 1979th

After his football career, he worked in the insurance industry. White passed away at the age of 70 in June 2019, leaving behind his wife and two daughters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dennis White in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ 'Pools pip Big Two . In: Newcastle Journal , November 2, 1967, p. 12.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ cf. Malcolm Errington: Hartlepool United - The Complete Record . Derby 2012, ISBN 978-1-78091-030-7 , pp. 406 ff .
  4. ^ Ternent steps in for Tiler . In: Newcastle Journal , April 14, 1973, p. 26.  (paid link)
  5. ^ A b Colin Foster: A Century Of Poolies: The Who's Who Of Hartlepool United, 1908-2008 . 2008, p. 257 .
  6. ↑ Pool hope to stretch lead . In: Newcastle Journal , November 24, 1979, p. 21.  (paid link)
  7. ↑ hartlepoolunited.co.uk: Club Saddened By Passing Of Dennis White (June 19, 2019) , accessed October 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME White, Dennis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartlepool
DATE OF DEATH 19th June 2019
Place of death Stockton-on-teas