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Bill Nicholson (other)
Bill Nicholson may refer to: * Bill Nicholson (cricketer) (1909–2001), Scottish cricketer * Bill Nicholson (baseball) (1914–1996), American Major League Baseball player * Bill Nicholson (footballer) William Edward Nicholson (26 January 1919 – 23 October 2004) was an English football player, coach, manager and scout who had a 55 year association with Tottenham Hotspur. He is considered one of the most important figures in the club's histo ... (1919–2004), English football player and manager * Bill Nicholson (Canadian administrator), Canadian farmer and administrator See also * Billy Nicholson (other) * William Nicholson (other) {{hndis, Nicholson, Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nicholson (cricketer)
Bill Nicholson (7 May 1909 – 10 April 2001) was a Scotland international cricketer. He also played rugby union and he became president of the Scottish Rugby Union in 1968-69. Cricket career In 1929, Nicholson scored a century on his debut for Scotland against Ireland in Dublin at the age of 20. Rugby Union career Amateur career Nicholson played rugby for West of Scotland. Provincial career He was capped for Glasgow District and had a trial for the Scotland national rugby union team The Scotland national rugby union team represents Scotland in men's international rugby union and is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union. The team takes part in the annual Six Nations Championship and participates in the Rugby World Cup, ... but was not selected. Administrative career With West of Scotland he was president from 1958 to 1976, coinciding with one of the club's most successful periods. He served as president of the Scottish Rugby Union in 1968-69. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nicholson (baseball)
William Beck "Swish" Nicholson (December 11, 1914 – March 8, 1996) was a right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1936), Chicago Cubs (1939–1948) and Philadelphia Phillies (1949–1953). A native of Chestertown, Maryland, where he attended Washington College, he batted left-handed and threw right-handed. In , Nicholson received an intentional walk with the bases loaded. He is listed as one of only six players in major league history to do it. The others are Abner Dalrymple (1881), Nap Lajoie (1901), Del Bissonette (1928), Barry Bonds (1998) and Josh Hamilton (2008). Career In a 16-year career, Nicholson posted a .268 batting average with 235 home runs and 948 run batted in in 1677 games. At 6 feet tall and 205 pounds, he was an imposing figure at the plate. While awaiting each pitch, he would loosen up with determined practice swings, ending each with his bat aimed at the pitcher, and holding that pose for several seconds. With e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nicholson (footballer)
William Edward Nicholson (26 January 1919 – 23 October 2004) was an English football player, coach, manager and scout who had a 55 year association with Tottenham Hotspur. He is considered one of the most important figures in the club's history, winning eight major trophies in his 16-year managerial spell, and most notably guiding the team to their Double-winning season of 1960–61. Early life Born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, the eighth of nine children, Nicholson was a pupil at the town's Gladstone Road Junior School before attending Scarborough High School for Boys. He worked briefly in a laundry after leaving school, but at the age of 17 he was invited to a trial at Tottenham Hotspur, where he arrived on 16 March 1936 after playing for Young Liberals and Scarborough Working Men’s Club in his youth. After a month's trial, he was taken on as a ground-staff boy at £2 a week. He played for Spurs' nursery club Northfleet United and won a Kent Senior Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nicholson (Canadian Administrator)
Bill Nicholson is a Canadian farmer and administrator, and is one of ten elected directors on the Canadian Wheat Board. Nicholson supports the CWB's single-desk marketing approach as the best option for farmers, and has opposed efforts to introduce open market competition to wheat and barley sales. Nicholson operates a farming business in Shoal Lake, Manitoba. He was first elected to the Canadian Wheat Board's Advisory Committee in 1994, defeating incumbent candidate Larry Maguire in the western Manitoba region. This election was fought along clear ideological lines, with Maguire opposing the CWB's monopoly status and Nicholson supporting it. Nicholson, who was 38 years old at the time, was a delegate with the Manitoba Pool Elevators and a member of the National Farmers Union. Nicholson criticized the group Farmers For Justice in 1995, after some of its members tried to market their own wheat in the United States in contravention of Canadian law. He argued that these farmers w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Nicholson (other)
Billy Nicholson may refer to: * Billy Nicholson (ice hockey) (1878–1947), Canadian ice hockey player and executive * Billy Nicholson (politician) Billy Nicholson (born February 5, 1948) is an American politician and former insurance agent from Mississippi. He served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives 2000 to 2012 for the 78th district. In February 2009, he party switch ... (born 1948), American politician and former insurance agent from Mississippi See also * Bill Nicholson (other) * William Nicholson (other) {{hndis, Nicholson, Billy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
