Orphanage Life

Walter Tull was both a professional footballer player and a soldier during World War One. Walter had to give up his career as a footballer to help out in the ... Nov 12, 2024 ... Edward was adopted by the Warnock family of Glasgow, becoming Edward Tull-Warnock. Tull's professional football career began after he signed ... Walter Tull built a career as top division footballer. He became the second professional black player in the Football League and transferred from Tottenham to ... Walter Daniel John Tull (28 April 1888 – 25 March 1918) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward for Tottenham Hotspur and ... The first black outfield player to feature in the English top flight, Tull spent two seasons at Tottenham Hotspur before going on to play over 100 games for ... Aug 22, 2019 ... Walter Tull: football's hidden pioneer whose story everyone should know ... Walter Tull. It's a name every player and football fan should know. Walter Tull was the first black football player within professional British football leagues and the first black army officer within Britain. Nov 11, 2016 ... Between 1909 and 1914 he played for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town before war was declared and he left his football career behind to ... Jul 25, 2022 ... In 1914, at the start of the war, he signed up for the 17th (1st Football) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment as a Lance Corporal. During his ... Oct 24, 2012 ... Walter Tull's tale may be nearly a century old but the lessons he learnt on the football field and in the trenches remain true to this day.