WHITFIELD, Norman
Inside-left;5'9", 11-2.
b. 3.4.1896, Prudhoe.

Clubs:
Prudhoe Celtic Jnrs.
Jarrow Croft: signed cs.12
Leicester Fosse: signed 5.13.24 FL apps, 6 goals
Hednesford Town: cs.20
CHESTERFIELD: signed 5.22. 120 FL apps, 60 goals.
FAC: 11-6.
Doncaster Rovers: trial, 9.27
Worcester City: signed 11.27
Nuneaton Town: 6.28
Hinckley United: 9.30

Norman Whitfield was an uncomplicated, accomplished goalscorer whose career looked to be taking off at the highest level when war intervened, whereupon he became an artilleryman with the 117th Heavy Brigade. Like so many other long-serving veterans he was unable to pick up a career upon his return.

He was freed to Hednesford in the summer of 1920 but the Spireites completed a fine day's work when snatching him back from non-League football.He maintained an excellent scoring record in five seasons at Saltergate, despite his usually being one of the first to be dropped whenever desperate-looking team selections were called for.He may have suffered in this respect from a lack of overtly stylish elements to his play, but he remained hugely popular with the fans, who weren't as concerned as the selectors about which bits of his anatomy he used to put the ball away.