He played for Gateshead throughout the Second World War, and made 113 appearances in the wartime leagues.
[4] He signed for Second Division club West Ham United on 31 May 1946,[5] ahead of the first postwar Football League season.
He made his debut towards the end of that campaign, and played just once in 1947–48, but became a more frequent member of the first eleven over the next couple of years.
[2] An injury sustained in a 1–0 defeat of Queens Park Rangers on 4 February 1950[6] put an early end to his 1949–50 season, and although a regular selection in August and September 1950 he picked up an injury while contributing two own goals to a 5–3 loss at home to Sheffield United,[7][8] lost his place, and rarely regained it.
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