- Billy Kingdon
Infobox Football biography
playername = Billy Kingdon
fullname = William Issacher Garfield Kingdon
height = height|ft=5|in=9
dateofbirth = birth date|1905|6|25|df=y
cityofbirth =Worcester
countryofbirth =England
dateofdeath = death date and age|1977|3|18|1905|6|25|df=y
cityofdeath =Weymouth
countryofdeath =England
currentclub =
clubnumber =
position = Half back
youthyears =
youthclubs = Kepex (Worcester)
years = 1924–1925
1925–1936
1936–1938
1938–????
clubs = Kidderminster Harriers
Aston Villa
Southampton
Yeovil & Petters United
caps(goals) =
223 0(5)
049 0(1)
nationalyears = 1926
nationalteam = England Junior
nationalcaps(goals) = 001 0(0)
manageryears = 1938–1946
1947–1948
managerclubs = Yeovil & Petters United
Weymouth
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ntupdate =William (Billy) Issacher Garfield Kingdon (born
Worcester 25 July 1907 , diedWeymouth 18 March 1977 ) was a footballer who played, as a wing-half, over 240 games for Aston Villa.Kingdon joined Villa from Kidderminster Harriers in 1925 and left in 1936 to join Southampton. In his time at
Villa Park , Villa were moderately successful, reaching theFootball League runners-up position twice, in 1930–31 and 1932–33, and theFA Cup semi-final in 1933–34. After this there came a period of decline, culminating in relegation in 1935–36, thereby becoming the last of the founder members of the football league to lose top flight status for the first time.At Southampton he displayed "a nice line in distribution and looked to be an asset". [cite book | author=Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk | title=The Alphabet of the Saints| publisher= ACL & Polar Publishing | year=1992 |pages=p.200| id=ISBN 0-9514862-3-3] In 1936–37 he formed a useful partnership with fellow half-backs Bill Kennedy and Cyril King and only missed one game, although Southampton struggled near the bottom of Division 2. He briefly became team captain until, in September 1937, new manager Tom Parker acquired the services of Scottish international
Frank Hill , who had won the Football League title three times with Arsenal (in 1932–33, 1933–34 and 1934–35). Hill immediately took over both the captaincy and Bill's No. 6 shirt, and after Hill's arrival, Kingdon only made one further appearance, and in January 1938 joined Yeovil & Petters United as player-manager.He remained with Yeovil for the duration of
World War II , but in 1946 he returned to his trade as acarpenter . In 1947 he accepted the position as manager at Weymouth, combining this with running the Fountain Hotel inWeymouth .References
External links
* [http://web.telia.com/~u27301997/755.html Details of Billy Kingdon's Aston Villa career]
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