1937 Cotton W A
Birthplace
Sheffield 1914
Occupation
Full-Back
Biographical Text
W A Cotton, a teacher at Ashburton Grammar School, appeared for Exeter City Reserves in 1937/38. He had previous experience of second-team football with Huddersfield Town and Plymouth Argyle.
A full-back, he appeared as an amateur for Exeter City reserves against Bristol Rovers reserves in the Southern League on 23 October 1937. Teaching PE at the grammar school in Ashbuton at the time, he had recently played for Plymouth Argyle reserves as well as having previous experience with Huddersfield Town's second-string.
Once a student of Woodhouse Grammar School (Sheffield) and Sheffield University, he appears to have soon left Ashburton to move to the London area where he turned out for Dulwich Hamlet before the outbreak of war. Newspaper reports of his time in London suggest he was a former amateur international trailist who had made appearances for the Corinthians and Yorkshire Amateurs. Other reports indicate he attracted the attention of Sunderland earlier in his career and was also a competent club cricketer.
Newspaper archive material also suggests he was headteacher at schools in Southport and Christchurch in the 1950s.
Walter Allen Cotton died in Chesterfield in 1998.
A full-back, he appeared as an amateur for Exeter City reserves against Bristol Rovers reserves in the Southern League on 23 October 1937. Teaching PE at the grammar school in Ashbuton at the time, he had recently played for Plymouth Argyle reserves as well as having previous experience with Huddersfield Town's second-string.
Once a student of Woodhouse Grammar School (Sheffield) and Sheffield University, he appears to have soon left Ashburton to move to the London area where he turned out for Dulwich Hamlet before the outbreak of war. Newspaper reports of his time in London suggest he was a former amateur international trailist who had made appearances for the Corinthians and Yorkshire Amateurs. Other reports indicate he attracted the attention of Sunderland earlier in his career and was also a competent club cricketer.
Newspaper archive material also suggests he was headteacher at schools in Southport and Christchurch in the 1950s.
Walter Allen Cotton died in Chesterfield in 1998.
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