Experiences of Discrimination

Aug 3, 2023 ... After playing football in the Orphanage football team, Tull was selected to play for the amateur club Clapton in 1908. Scarcely four months had ... Nov 1, 2010 ... He was the first Black outfield player to play in the English. Football League. He was also the first Black officer in the British Army and was ... Walter Tull and the Missing Football (ISBN: 9781445188973) This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage ... Walter Daniel John Tull (1888-1918) was an army officer and English professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. Walter Tull was both a professional footballer player and a soldier during World War One. Walter became recognised as the first black officer to lead white ... Appearances: 10. Goals: 2. Played in the Club's first-ever matches in the top flight, 1909-10. The first black outfield player to appear in the Football League. Walter Tull was the first black football player within professional British football leagues and the first black army officer within Britain. On 2nd October 1909 Bristol City played Spurs. In this match 'Tull was the target of sustained, vociferous and ferocious racial abuse'*1. In his match report ... Oct 20, 2021 ... These adversities did not stop nor stunt Walter's achievements in football though, going on to win the Professional Football Charity Fund Medal ... Mar 21, 2018 ... The nation's first infantry officer of black heritage British Army officer made history on the football pitch and in World War 1.