Dick White (soccer player)

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Dick White
Personnel
Surname Richard White
birthday August 18, 1931
place of birth Scunthorpe ,  England
date of death June 15, 2002
Place of death Nottingham ,  England
position Middle runner
Juniors
Years station
1947-1948 Brumby amateurs
1948-1949 Scunthorpe SC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1949-1955 Scunthorpe & Lindsey United 133 (7)
1955-1962 Liverpool FC 203 (0)
1962-1964 Doncaster Rovers 82 (0)
1964-1966 Kettering Town
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1964-1965 Kettering Town
1 Only league games are given.

Richard "Dick" White (born August 18, 1931 in Scunthorpe , † June 15, 2002 in Nottingham ) was an English football player . The middle runner was a regular at the third division Scunthorpe United at the beginning of the 1950s , before moving to the then second division FC Liverpool in November 1955 , where he was team captain in the 1960/61 season and in 1962 contributed to the return to the top English division.

Athletic career

White grew up footballing in his hometown of Scunthorpe and when the best club there Scunthorpe & Lindsey United (later "Scunthorpe United") was included in the third highest English division for the 1950/51 season , White was also part of the squad. As a middle runner, he was not only a key player in the team that was initially coached by Leslie Jones and from 1952 by the Northern Irishman Bill Corkhill . He also worked as a carpenter for the club chairman Lord Quibell . In November 1955 coach Don Welsh and two other officials from Liverpool FC traveled to Scunthorpe and convinced Corkhill of a transfer for 8,000 pounds to the then second division club from Liverpool. The transfer fee marked a club record for Scunthorpe and the financially weak club was able to improve its coffers and redeem the promise to White not to stand in the way of the change to a more prominent club.

After first games in the reserve team, Dick represented Laurie Hughes on March 10, 1956 against FC Barnsley (5-0). This was followed by seven more appearances in the outgoing 1955/56 season and since Hughes still only missed one game in the following season 1956/57 , White's opportunities were initially rare even under the new coach Phil Taylor . This changed from the 1957/58 season , when the now 33-year-old Hughes was no longer used. In the four seasons that followed, White only missed two league games and was therefore one of the initial top performers of the new coach Bill Shankly , who from 1959 headed the fortunes in Liverpool. When Ron Yeats joined the "Reds" in 1961 , he not only promptly took over the position of White, but also inherited it as captain after White was transferred to the role in the 1960/61 season . In the promotion season 1961/62 White contributed 24 league games, although not in his traditional role, but as a right defender. The signs were now goodbye, especially since White had injured his knee in the FA Cup against Oldham Athletic at the end of January 1962 . The fact that he finally moved to the Doncaster Rovers , who had just finished third from bottom in the fourth division , surprised regardless (the transfer fee was also described as "moderate"). For Liverpool he had played a total of 217 competitive games and scored his only goal on January 8, 1958 in an FA Cup game against Southend United (3-2).

In the following two years, White let his professional career fade away in Doncaster before he worked as a player- coach at the amateur club Kettering Town in the mid-1960s . In his later life he was an avid golfer and President of Scunthorpe Golf Club . He died in Nottingham in June 2002 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dick White transferred to Liverpool (Daily Express)
  2. ↑ Players - Dick White (LFCHistory.net)
  3. ↑ Dick White transferred to Doncaster Rovers (Liverpool Echo)
  4. ↑ Dick White (where-are-they-now.co.uk)
  5. ↑ FOOTBALL: Death of former Liverpool skipper Dick White. (The Free Library)
personal data
SURNAME White, Dick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Scunthorpe
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2002
Place of death Nottingham