Billy Baxter (footballer)

Billy Baxter

Personal information
Full name	William Alexander Baxter
Date of birth	(1939-04-23)23 April 1939
Place of birth	Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death
Place of death	Dunfermline, Scotland
Position(s)	Right Half / Central Defender
Youth career
	Broxburn Athletic
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1960–1971	Ipswich Town	409	(21)
1971–1972	Hull City	21	(0)
1972	→ Watford (loan)	11	(0)
1972–1973	Northampton Town	41	(4)
Total		482	(25)
Managerial career
1972–1973	Northampton Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Alexander "Billy" Baxter (23 April 1939 – 25 May 2009) was a Scottish professional footballer.

A native of Edinburgh, Baxter joined Ipswich Town from Scottish amateur side Broxburn Athletic in 1960, and was a regular in the Ipswich team than won the old Division 2 Championship in 1960-61 and Division 1 Championship in 1961-62. He later captained the team to the old Division 2 Championship in 1967-68. In total, Baxter played 459 games for Ipswich during an 11-year stay at Portman Road. However, after a falling-out with manager Bobby Robson, he was sold to Hull City in March 1971.

After two largely unsuccessful seasons at Hull, Baxter became player-manager of Northampton Town in 1972, lasting one year in the job. He subsequently joined non-league Nuneaton Borough.

In his later years, Baxter battled cancer. He had a leg amputated sometime before his death, and succumbed to the disease at a Dunfermline hospital on 25 May 2009, aged 70.

External links

• Profile at Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database