Bert Williams

Bert Frederick Williams MBE (31 January 1920 – 19 January 2014) was an English international football goalkeeper. Nicknamed "The Cat", he spent the majority of his playing career at Wolverhampton Wanderers where he won the League Championship and FA Cup. At the time of his death Williams was the oldest living England international.

Bert Williams

Personal information
Full name	Bert Frederick Williams MBE
Date of birth	(1920-01-31)31 January 1920
Place of birth	Bradley, Staffordshire, England
Date of death	19 January 2014(2014-01-19) (aged 93)
Place of death	Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Youth career
	Bilston
	Thompson's FC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1937–1945	Walsall	25	(0)
1945–1959	Wolverhampton Wanderers	381	(0)
National team
1949	England B	1	(0)
1949–1955	England	30	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Bert Williams Media

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  George Walker, Adah Overton Walker, and Bert Williams in In Dahomey (1903), the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African Americans

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  Bert Williams, stage actor* * Subjects: actors

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  Williams (left) & Walker, on the 1903 cover to the sheet music for "I'm a Jonah Man" (from the musical In Dahomey)

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  Cover of the song "Bon Bon Buddy" that closed Act 2 of the 1908 musical "Bandanna Land"

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  Cabinet card image of American minstrel performer Bert Williams (1874-1922). TCS 1.1120, Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University

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  Bert Williams in blackface

Other websites

• England Profile Archived 2006-11-13 at the Wayback Machine