Garth Butler
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Walter Garth Butler[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 7 February 1923||
Place of birth | Birmingham, England[1] | ||
Date of death | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. | ||
Place of death | Ilfracombe, England | ||
Position(s) | Full-back | ||
Youth career | |||
Derby County | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1946–1951 | Port Vale | 128 | (0) |
Total | 128 | (0) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Walter Garth Butler (7 February 1923 – 13 July 1995) was an English footballer. He was nicknamed "the assassin" for his habit of taking several different coloured pills before a match.
Playing career
Butler joined Port Vale from Derby County in June 1946.[1] He played 12 Third Division South games in the 1946–47 season and featured in 39 league and one FA Cup game in the 1947–48 campaign.[1] He continued to be a key part of manager Gordon Hodgson's first team plans, and played 34 games in the 1948–49 season and made 43 appearances in the 1949–50 campaign.[1] He featured just five times for the "Valiants" in the 1950–51 season, and was forced to retire from professional football in October 1951 after proving unable to recover from a knee injury.[1] He had played 134 league and cup games during his five years at The Old Recreation Ground / Vale Park.[1]
Statistics
- Sourced from Garth Butler profile at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
Club | Season | Division | League | FA Cup | Total | |||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Port Vale | 1946–47 | Third Division South | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
1947–48 | 39 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 0 | ||
1948–49 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 0 | ||
1949–50 | 39 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 43 | 0 | ||
1950–51 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
1951–52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 128 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 134 | 0 |
References
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- 1923 births
- 1995 deaths
- Sportspeople from Birmingham, West Midlands
- English footballers
- Association football defenders
- Association football fullbacks
- Derby County F.C. players
- Port Vale F.C. players
- The Football League players