Billy Pease

Willie Pease (30 September 1899 – 2 October 1955) was an English international footballer, who played as an outside right.

Billy Pease
Personal information
Full name Willie Pease[1]
Date of birth (1899-09-30)30 September 1899
Place of birth Leeds, England
Date of death 2 October 1955(1955-10-02) (aged 56)
Place of death Redcar, England
Height 5 ft 9.5 in (1.77 m)[1]
Position(s) Outside right
Youth career
Holbeck St. Barnabas
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1918–1919 Leeds City
1919–1926 Northampton Town 278 (46)
1926–1933 Middlesbrough
1933–1935 Luton Town
National team
1927 England 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He played in the Football League for Leeds City, Northampton Town, Middlesbrough and Luton Town.[2][3]

Early and personal life

Willie Pease was born on 30 September 1899 in Leeds.[1] His birth name has been mis-reported as William Harold Pease.[1] He was the second of five children.[1]

Career

Pease began his career with Holbeck St. Barnabas before joining the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers during World War I.[1] He signed for Leeds City as an amateur, being sold to Northampton Town (again as an amateur) in October 1919.[1] He moved to Middlesbrough in May 1926, and to Luton Town in June 1933.[1][2] A role as player-manager of Gateshead in December 1934 and a later role with Hartlepools United both fell through, and he retired in January 1935.[1]

Pease earned one international cap for England in 1927.[1][4]

Later life and death

Pease was married with three sons.[1] After retiring as a player he entered the licensing trade; in 1939 he was the manager of a hotel in Middlesbrough, and in 1940 he was managing a hotel in Stokesley.[1] He later ran a bed & breakfast in Redcar, where he died on 2 October 1955, aged 56, from a brain hemorrhage.[1]

References
  1. "England Players - Billy Pease". www.englandfootballonline.com.
  2. Billy Pease at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  3. Grande, Frank (1997). Northampton Town F.C.: The Official Centenary History. London: Yore Publications. ISBN 978-1874427674.
  4. Willie Pease at Englandstats.com


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