His father, Joseph, was a coal miner originally from Cornwall, and his mother, Barbara Ann née Day, was a local girl.
[5] The 1939 Register finds the couple living in Cheddleton, Staffordshire, where Vine is working as a mental nurse at the county asylum.
[1][8] He came into the first team for the Christmas Day fixture against Accrington Stanley,[9] and scored with his first touch of the ball in League football.
[13] He was given a free transfer at the end of the season,[18] and signed for another Northern Section club, Gateshead, who were without an outside left after the departures of Jimmy Talbot and Albert Taylor.
[8] However, it was another new arrival, Dicky Boland, who "found his place on the Gateshead side without much difficulty"; by early October, he was "playing at the top of his form",[19] and he did not miss a game until the following February.