1. Horatio Stratton "Raich" Carter was an English sportsman who played football for Sunderland, Derby County and Hull City, as well as representing England on thirteen occasions.
58 Facts About Raich Carter
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Carter was born at Hendon, Sunderland, the son of Robert Carter who played football for Port Vale, Fulham and Southampton.
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Raich Carter had an elder brother who died as a baby and 2 sisters.
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Raich Carter excelled at most sports, including football, cricket and athletics.
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On leaving school in summer 1928, Raich Carter was presented with a gold watch inscribed with details of his England football and school cricket achievements.
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Raich Carter was offered amateur terms and an office job by Sunderland.
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Raich Carter's uncle Ted, who had been acting as his guardian since his father's death in March 1928, was not impressed and insisted he learn a trade to fall back on and noted Carter was still too small and light for professional football.
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Raich Carter was apprenticed as an electrician with the Sunderland Forge and Mechanical Company.
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Raich Carter played football for their works team and Whitburn St Mary's whose team contained many of Sunderland's best juniors.
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On his 17th birthday, Raich Carter reminded neighbour George Metcalfe of his long standing promise.
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On 27 December 1931 on a heavy pitch, Raich Carter did not impress and was told by the Leicester City manager Willie Orr that he was too small.
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Raich Carter moved to leading local amateur side Esh Winning.
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On 10 October 1931 Raich Carter made his debut for Sunderland reserves against Walker Celtic He retained his place a week later.
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Raich Carter captained Sunderland to the Football League title in 1936, at that time the youngest man ever to have captained a First Division title-winning side.
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In November 1945 Raich Carter was transfer listed by Sunderland after the club refused his request for a new 10-year contract.
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On 31 August 1946, Raich Carter made his Football League debut for Derby at Sunderland.
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Raich Carter later played for Hull City and Cork Athletic.
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In February 1953, Raich Carter signed a short term playing contract with Cork Athletic.
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Raich Carter was able to live in Hull and fly to Ireland every weekend for matches.
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Raich Carter scored twice on his debut on 8 February 1953 against Waterford and helped his new club to do the cup double winning the FAI Cup and Munster Senior Cup.
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Raich Carter was capped 13 times for England as an inside forward.
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Raich Carter won 17 wartime international caps and played for the RAF and Combined Services.
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Raich Carter was a supreme entertainer who dodged, dribbled, twisted and turned, sending bewildered left-halves madly along false trails.
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Raich Carter joined the Auxiliary Fire Brigade and on 19 March 1940 was asked to join the Fire Service.
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Raich Carter worked as a Physical Training Instructor and after several postings he was posted to the Loughborough Rehabilitation Centre, where Dan Maskell was his Squadron Leader, helping airmen, many in plaster casts, recover their fitness and general health.
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Raich Carter played 17 war time internationals as well as other representative games for the RAF and Combined Services.
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Raich Carter guested for Huddersfield Town, Hartlepools United, York City, Derby County and Nottingham Forest.
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Schoolboy ideas of a dual football-cricket career were discounted as Raich Carter felt he would be unable to give his full attention to two sports and that cricket would probably involve moving away from home and his widowed mother and sisters and serving a residential qualification before being eligible to play for a first-class county.
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Whilst at Derby, Raich Carter played first-class cricket for Derbyshire County Cricket Club.
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Raich Carter made his County Championship debut in June 1946 against Worcestershire.
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Raich Carter was a right-handed batsman and batted in four innings in his three first-class matches.
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Raich Carter was a left-arm slow orthodox bowler and took two wickets.
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Raich Carter was a regular for the cricket teams of Derby County and Hull City.
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Raich Carter kept some of his England shirts, removed the badge pocket, and used them for cricket.
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In February 1948, rumours began to circulate that Raich Carter was to move to Leeds United.
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Raich Carter was interviewed for the position but there were two stumbling blocks, the length of the contract and Leeds' wish to make the appointment at the end of the season.
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Raich Carter turned down other offers believing he would learn more under manager Major Frank Buckley and Hull City would provide the fastest route into a manager's position.
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Raich Carter continued his playing career at Hull City, winning the Division Three North title and reaching the Round 6 of the FA Cup in his first season and buying a young Don Revie.
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Raich Carter maintained his match fitness by playing local amateur football in Leconfield.
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In May 1953, Raich Carter was appointed Leeds United manager; he stated he was joining as manager only, although he did play in several friendly games.
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In May 1955, Raich Carter turned down an offer to return to Derby County as manager.
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Raich Carter was rewarded with a new 3-year contract to replace the 2 one year contracts he'd previously had.
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In February 1960, Raich Carter was appointed as Mansfield Town manager.
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In 1964, Raich Carter presented a young Philip Lowery with his town colours for Stockton Town Football club.
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Raich Carter saw it as necessary to issue short and sharp instructions to teammates in a loud voice to be heard over crowd noise.
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Raich Carter was noted as a being a natural footballer who wanted his players to "play it by ear", he did not want to over coach them.
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Raich Carter could be demanding and authoritative and did not suffer fools gladly.
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Raich Carter refused to sanction any illegal or underhand payments.
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When Raich Carter reported for pre-season training in 1934, he measured 5 foot 8 inches and weighed 10 stones and 7 pounds.
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Raich Carter was noted as "silver haired" during his Derby County days and advertised Nufix haircream when at Hull City.
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On 26 April 1937 Raich Carter married Rose Marsh, a long lost school friend, in Derby.
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On 19 November 1951, Raich Carter and Rose opened a sweet and tobacco shop in George Street, Hull.
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On 3 January 1955, Raich Carter married Patricia Dixon, a former Hull City office employee and Yorkshire netball player.
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In 1968, Raich Carter took a job to manage the sports department of the Hull Cooperative Store until it closed down a year later.
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In 1969, Raich Carter accepted a role on the Pools Panel, a role that lasted 6 years.
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In 1969, Raich Carter bought a local credit collection business which he ran for over 20 years.
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On 4 July 1992, Raich Carter suffered a mild stroke, followed by a further stroke on 3 September 1993 which completely incapacitated him.
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Raich Carter died at home in Willerby in October 1994.