1. List all the similarities and differences you can
Tottenham Hotspur Football Team for the season One of Britain’s first black professional footballers, Walter Tull, is seated second from right, in the second row from the front.
List all the similarities and differences you can
between the two pictures
Arsenal Football Team Very diverse!

2. Objectives and outcomes
Discover who Walter Tull was
Consider the historical significance of Walter Tull’s football career
- i.e. why he was so important!
Write an entry for Tull in the 1914 edition of the Rothmans Football Yearbook

3. Date: Who was Walter Tull?
Using the source...
My impressions:
When did he live?
Family background?
Education?
Personality/character?
Career success?

4. Who was WalterTull- were you right?
Walter Tull was born in Folkestone in April 1888 and was the son of a joiner
Walter's father, the son of a slave, had arrived from Barbados in 1876 and had married a girl from Kent. Over the next few years the couple had six children.
In 1895, when Walter was seven, his mother died. Walter's father remarried but died two years later. The stepmother was unable to cope with all six children and Walter and his brother Edward were sent to an orphanage in Bethnal Green, London.
After finishing his schooling Tull served an apprenticeship as a printer. But as he was a keen footballer, he decided to pursue a career in the sport…

5. Tull the football player
Started his football career as an amateur playing for Clapton
Then signed as a professional for Tottenham Hotspurs in 1909
Later transferred to Northampton Town, where he played for the rest of his career
WW1 interrupted his football career- it is believed he would have joined Glasgow Rangers had this interruption not happened

6. Who was Walter Tull? My impressions:
How accurate were your impressions of Tull?
Write a couple of sentences to answer this question using what you have discovered over the last couple of slides…

8. Wayne Rooney
Wayne Rooney was born on 24 October 1985 in Liverpool. On 31 August 2004 he was
signed by Manchester United, having played throughout his career for Everton.
Rooney's Premiership debut came against Spurs on the opening day of the 2002/03
season, but his first ever goal came in October 2002 against Arsenal. It was a
stuuner in the last minute of the game. Rooney became the youngest goal scorer in
the Premiership's history (the record would be overtaken a few weeks later by
James Milner). He also became the youngest player to represent his country when
he made his debut against Australia in February 2003 at the age of 17; and then
broke another record becoming England's youngest ever goal scorer when he scored
against Macedonia in a Euro 2004 qualifier in September 2003.
In September 2005, Wayne Rooney added FIFPro's young player award after a poll
of 38,000 professional footballers in 40 countries. In 2006, Wayne Rooney won the
PFA Young Player of the Year Award for the second year running. When Rooney
broke a metatarsal at the end of the 2005/6 season, hardly a day went by without
speculation on whether he would be available for the World Cup. In the end, Rooney
was able to play in the tournament and started by coming on as substitute in the
game against Trinidad and Tobago but the 2006 World Cup worsened for Wayne
Rooney and England when he got sent off after Manchester United colleague
Christiano Ronaldo had words with the referee in England's match against Portugal.

9. Activity
You are going to use the sources and documents we have looked at to write an entry for Walter Tull in the Rothmans Footballers Yearbook for 1914
Make sure you include the details mentioned on your sheet

10. What’s so great about Tull?

11. Significance?
You are on the Footballers ‘Hall of Fame’ executive committee. Tull’s name has come up as a possible addition to the Hall of Fame
Give a justification for Tull being included in the Hall of Fame in no more than a sentence!