Walter Millership
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Walter Millership | ||
| Date of birth | June 1910 | ||
| Place of birth | Warsop Vale, Nottinghamshire, England | ||
| Date of death | 1978 (aged 67–68) | ||
| Place of death | Brimington, Derbyshire, England | ||
| Position | |||
| Youth career | |||
| –1928 | Warsop Main | ||
| Welbeck Athletic | |||
| Shirebrook Town | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1928–1930 | Bradford Park Avenue | 30 | (13) |
| 1930–1946 | Sheffield Wednesday | 210 | (25) |
| → (wartime) | 155 | (12) | |
| → Doncaster Rovers (guest) | |||
| → Sheffield United (guest) | |||
| 1946–1948 | Denaby United | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Walter Millership was an English professional footballer who played for Bradford Park Avenue and Sheffield Wednesday in a career that lasted from 1928 until 1939 during which time he played 240 League games (271 including cup games), scoring 38 league goals (47 including cup). Millership made his name as a centre-half but he originally was a centre forward in his early playing days.
Millership was born in the small mining village of Warsop Vale in Nottinghamshire on 8 June 1910. As a youth he excelled at both football and cricket, playing his football for Warsop Main, Welbeck Athletic and Shirebrook Town F.C. Upon leaving school he worked at Warsop colliery and was soon approached by Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, but their effort to sign him was rebuffed by Millership who wanted to further his football career.
Bradford Park Avenue
In January 1928, he was invited for a trial at Bradford Park Avenue and was promptly signed making three appearances in the remainder of that season as Park Avenue lifted the Third Division North championship. The following season Millership only made two appearances and it was not until the 1929–30 season that he became a regular in the Park Avenue forward line scoring 12 goals in 25 appearances including a goal in the FA cup fourth round upset of Derby County and another in the 1–5 fifth round defeat against League champions Sheffield Wednesday on 15 February 1930. Despite the heavy defeat, Wednesday manager Bob Brown was sufficiently impressed with Millership to sign him for the Hillsborough club the following month for a fee of £2,600.[1]