[2] Whitehead played at Sturt with his brother Reg and they were both followers in the 1926 premiership winning team.
A ruckman, Whitehead kicked 16 goals from the 11 interstate games which he played for South Australia, including matches at the 1927 Melbourne Carnival and 1930 Adelaide Carnival.
[3] In 1932 he returned to Melbourne to spend a season with St Kilda, but resigned in early August, citing his dissatisfaction at having been demoted to the reserves.
[4] He finished his career back at Sturt, where he played for two more years.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1899 is a stub.