fullname years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals height position birth_date article_title name
ernest l. whatmore 1921 1928 1928 -- 1933 1933 1933 -- ? -- 1922 1922 -- 1923 1923 1923 -- 31 july 1991 kidderminster , england stourbridge rovers queens park rangers shepherd 's bush stourbridge wolverhampton wanderers -lrb- trial -rrb- shrewsbury town bristol kidderminster , england 2 11 134 78 0 40 3 5 9 forward/wing half 25 april 1900 ernie whatmore
 ernie whatmore
ernie whatmore

ernest l. ` ernie ' whatmore -lrb- 25 april 1900 -- 31 july 1991 -rrb- was a professional association footballer who played in the football league for wolverhampton wanderers , bristol rovers and queens park rangers during the interwar period .
whatmore began his career with stourbridge three years after the conclusion of the first world war .
he played there for a year before joining wolves on trial in 1922 , but in spite of playing in two games for them in the football league second division the club opted not to retain his services .
he spent the remainder of the 1922 -- 23 season with shrewsbury town , with whom he won both the birmingham & district league and the shropshire senior cup .
he returned to the football league in the summer of 1923 when he joined bristol rovers , and went on to make 134 league appearances for them during a five-year stay .
he moved to london in 1928 to join queens park rangers , and after four and a half years with them he joined shepherd 's bush in february 1933 .
in the summer of that year he returned to his first club , stourbridge .
in his later years , whatmore lived in a nursing home in his home town of kidderminster , and he died on 31 july 1991 two weeks after breaking his hip in a fall .
