George Hicks (footballer)
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | George Wolstenholme Hicks | ||
Date of birth | 30 April 1902 | ||
Place of birth | Salford, England | ||
Date of death | Not known | ||
Position(s) | 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 | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and 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
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1902 births
- People from Salford, Greater Manchester
- Year of death missing
- English footballers
- Association football wingers
- Droylsden F.C. players
- Manchester Central F.C. players
- Manchester City F.C. players
- Birmingham City F.C. players
- Manchester United F.C. players
- Bristol Rovers F.C. players
- Swindon Town F.C. players
- Rotherham United F.C. players