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Billy Fenton |
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One of the most popular players to wear a City shirt was left
winger Billy Fenton who in seven years at Bootham Crescent (1951-58)
scored 124 goals in 278 League and Cup appearances.
He was signed from Blackburn Rovers in May 1951 and in his first
season with the club scored 31 goals breaking City's record
previously held by Reg Baines who had netted 29 times in the
early 1930's.
Billy was a key man in the club's FA Cup semi-final side of
1954/55 and scored in the wins at Blackpool and at home to Tottenham
Hotspur. That season he achieved his best scoring feat when
he netted four times in a 5-4 Division Three (North) win at
Carlisle.
He left the club at the end of the 1957/58 campaign and joined
Scarborough. He later played in York and District football and
was involved in coaching.
Sadly Billy died suddenly at the age of 46 in 1963 but his name
lives on and the Billy Fenton Memorial Trophy is presented annually
by his widow Margo to City's "Clubman of the Year".
Billy will be remembered for his great pace and enthusiasm together
with his scoring feats (he is the third highest scorer in the
club's history behind Norman Wilkinson and Keith
Walwyn) and was an outstanding and much like personality
in that golden era for City in the mid 1950's.
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