MEN'S LEAGUE	32	53	59	66	70	71	75	96	99	00	02	06	14	19	20	21	22	MEN'S WORLD CLUB	01	07	23
MEN'S CHALLENGE CUPS	56	61	66	72	76	96	97	01	04	06	07	08	21					WOMEN'S MATCHES	21	21

Fred Higginbottom
OVERALL STATISTICS
BIRTH	AGE	SIGNED ON	FROM
14-11-1919	N/A	Date unknown.	Warrington Guest
DEBUT		LAST MATCH	LEFT
12-12-1942 v Dewsbury		Dewsbury	1942- Warrington Guest
CAREER			APPEARANCES (SUBS)
1942-1942			1 (0)
TRIES	GOALS	DGOALS	PTS
0	0	0	0

Biography of Fred Higginbottom
HERITAGE NO : 561 Higginbottom played his only game for the first team in the league away defeat to Dewsbury by 19 points to 7. He played in the centres alongside Jimmy Stott in this match. Higginbottom, who signed for his hometown club from Rylands in 1937 and played in the centres on the debut of Brian Bevan. Fred told the Warrington Guardian of his days at Wilderspool. Training was very amateurish then. We just went out, did a couple of laps, came back and got in the bath. There were no football coaches or anything like that. It was like a boy joining men when he accepted his £75 signing on fee in 1937. Jack Arkwright, Cod Miller, Billy Dingsdale, Bill Shankland, they were all big chaps to me. Dingsdale was a great player, a very intelligent player. He always played with his head, no rough stuff at all. He was a great footballer and lovely to watch. Cod Miller was a bit of a character. He would carry three or four men on his back as he ran. Higginbottom made his Warrington debut against Widnes at Wilderspool a month before war broke out in 1939 and in 1940 he played in the home match against Broughton Rangers on the day the Germans targeted Thames Board. He said that he was getting in the bath when a bomb dropped. He remembered it as though it was yesterday. The Old Stager died in Warrington in January 2011, aged 91.Additional material by Mike Parsons of the Warrington Guardian.

Biography of Fred Higginbottom

HERITAGE NO : 561

Higginbottom played his only game for the first team in the league away defeat to Dewsbury by 19 points to 7. He played in the centres alongside Jimmy Stott in this match. Higginbottom, who signed for his hometown club from Rylands in 1937 and played in the centres on the debut of Brian Bevan.

Fred told the Warrington Guardian of his days at Wilderspool.

Training was very amateurish then. We just went out, did a couple of laps, came back and got in the bath. There were no football coaches or anything like that. It was like a boy joining men when he accepted his £75 signing on fee in 1937. Jack Arkwright, Cod Miller, Billy Dingsdale, Bill Shankland, they were all big chaps to me. Dingsdale was a great player, a very intelligent player. He always played with his head, no rough stuff at all. He was a great footballer and lovely to watch. Cod Miller was a bit of a character. He would carry three or four men on his back as he ran.

Higginbottom made his Warrington debut against Widnes at Wilderspool a month before war broke out in 1939 and in 1940 he played in the home match against Broughton Rangers on the day the Germans targeted Thames Board. He said that he was getting in the bath when a bomb dropped. He remembered it as though it was yesterday.

The Old Stager died in Warrington in January 2011, aged 91.Additional material by Mike Parsons of the Warrington Guardian.

SEASON STATISTICS
Season (Official Matches)	Tries	Goals	DGoals	Matches
1942~43	0	0	0	1
TOTALS:	0	0	0	1
Season (Other Matches)	Tries	Goals	DGoals	Matches
TOTALS:

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Date	Match		Pos	Opponents	Comp	Venue	FT	FTO	T	G	DG
12th Dec 1942	1	L	4	Dewsbury	WEL	A	7	19				VIEW

*Unofficial Match. **Non Playing Sub.

WINS : \| LOSSES : 1 \| DRAWS :

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Fred Higginbottom

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Biography of Fred Higginbottom

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