Walter Creasor

Walter Creasor
Personal information
Date of birth (1902-10-31)31 October 1902[1]
Place of birth Middlesbrough,[2] Yorkshire, England
Date of death q4 1975 (aged 72–73)[1]
Place of death Cleveland,[lower-alpha 1] England
Playing position Outside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1922–1923 Middlesbrough 0 (0)
1923–1924 Darlington 6 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Walter Cuthbert Creasor (31 October 1902 – q4 1975) was an English footballer and speedway rider.

He played as an outside left in the Football League for Darlington, and was on the books of Middlesbrough without representing them in the league.[2] After finishing his football career, he took up speedway. He rode alongside his brother Fred for the Newcastle team in the 1929 English Dirt Track League.

Life and career

Creasor was born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire,[2] the third child of John Thomas Creasor, a master butcher, and his wife Louisa.[3] He began his football career on the books of his hometown club, Middlesbrough F.C., and played for the reserve team in the North-Eastern League,[4] but not for the Football League team.[2] He signed for Third Division North club Darlington ahead of the 1923–24 season. Again, he played mostly for the club's reserve team, in benefit matches[5][6] and in local cups,[7] but he did make six league appearances, scoring once.[2]

He went on to take up motorcycle sports. Representing the Middlesbrough & District Motor Club, he and his older brother, Fred, reached the final of a six-a-side motorcycle football cup competition, organised under the auspices of the Auto-Cycle Union; Middlesbrough lost to Coventry Ace M.C. at Headingley, Leeds, in March 1927 after the first final, at Crystal Palace, London, was abandoned because of rain.[8]

Creasor rode in the first speedway meeting in the north-east of England, at the Cleveland Park track, Middlesbrough, in August 1928.[9] He rode in the 1929 Scottish Open, being eliminated in his heat by eventual winner Drew McQueen.[10] He competed for Newcastle in the 1929 English Dirt Track League, and topped his team's averages.[11] After Newcastle lost to Halifax in the semi-final of the English Dirt Track Knockout Cup, the winners borrowed Creasor for the final, a heavy defeat to Preston.[12] In September 1929, he rode for Yorkshire against Lancashire at Wembley.[13]

Creasor died in 1975.[lower-alpha 1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Creasor's death was registered in the fourth quarter of 1975 in the Cleveland registration district,[1] which includes such towns as Eston, Guisborough, Redcar, Thornaby-on-Tees and Yarm.[14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "England & Wales deaths 1837–2007 Transcription". Walter Cuthbert Creasor. Birth date: 31 Oct 1902. Death quarter: 4. Death year: 1975. District: Cleveland. County: Yorkshire. Volume: 3. Page: 1991. Retrieved 27 November 2014 – via Findmypast. (subscription required (help)).
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  3. ↑ "1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription 118a Victoria Road Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England". Walter Cuthbert Creasor. Age: 8. Birthplace: Middlesbrough Yorkshire. Census reference: RG14PN29259 RG78PN1695 RD535 SD2 ED21 SN76. Retrieved 27 November 2014 – via Findmypast. (subscription required (help)).
  4. ↑ "North-Eastern League". Yorkshire Post. 24 September 1923. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  5. ↑ "Raith beaten at Darlington". The Courier. Dundee. 25 September 1924. p. 6 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  6. ↑ "Dundee draw with Darlington". The Courier. Dundee. 2 October 1924. p. 6 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  7. ↑ "Shipowners' Cup". Northern Daily Mail. West Hartlepool. 18 February 1925. p. 6 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  8. ↑ 'Cyclos' (22 January 1927). "Cycling Notes. Football on solo machines". The Australasian. Melbourne. p. 210.
    "Motor-cycle Football. The A.C.U. English Cup Final at Headingley". Yorkshire Post. 21 March 1927. p. 12 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
    Buttress, Alf. Ransome, David Raymond, ed. "The History of the Middlesbrough & District Motor Club: Part 2: Between the Wars: 1919–1939". pp. 33, 37.
  9. ↑ "Middlesbrough Speedway". Defunct Speedway Tracks. John Skinner. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "Scottish 500cc Championship 29/06/1929". Speedway Archive: A history of Edinburgh Monarchs and beyond. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "English Dirt Track League Averages by Team 1929". Speedway Archive: A history of Edinburgh Monarchs and beyond. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  12. ↑ Ozanne, Bob. "English Dirt Track Knock Out Cup 1929" (PDF). The Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  13. ↑ "Speedway racing. Lancashire beaten by Yorkshire". Manchester Guardian. 27 September 1929. p. 4.
  14. ↑ "Cleveland registration district". UKBMD. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
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