How was Walter Tull's contribution to football initially acknowledged?

Oct 10, 2018 ... Walter Tull was one of English football's first black players and the British Army's first ever black officer to command white troops. Collins Big Cat - Walter Tull: Footballer, Soldier, Hero: Band 17/Diamond ... Walter Tull was a successful footballer and officer in the British Army in World War ... Oct 19, 2021 ... TULL, one of Britain's first black professional footballers has been posthumously inducted into the National Football Museum's Hall of Fame. Oct 9, 2024 ... ... Walter Tull nonetheless rose to prominence as the first black footballer to play at the highest level of the English game, playing with ... Oct 30, 2016 ... The first black officer to lead white soldiers into battle in the history of the British army. Britain's second professional black footballer. Jan 16, 2014 ... PETER FROST finds a memorial in Northampton with a sad story of a forgotten hero and a century of racism in football. Walter Tull became one of the first black professional footballers, playing with Tottenham Spurs. In 1917, he also became one of the first black Britons to ... Book review - Walter Tull, 1888-1918: Officer, Footballer. ... IT seems incredible today that anyone should care about the country of origin of our footballing ... Born in Kent, in 1888, Walter Tull became not just the first black British professional outfield football player – for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town – ... Oct 10, 2022 ... This campaign is supported by Walter Tull's descendants, and his former Football Clubs at Northampton Town and Tottenham Hotspur. Historians and ...