Career
Born in Kingston upon Hull, Linward is first known as playing for Grimsby All Saints, from where he moved to in the for the start of the 1895−86 season. He scored his first goal on his home debut in a 3−0 victory over Mansfield Town in front of a 1000 crowd. His time at Doncaster involved two championships and one runner up, plus being runner up in the.
In all competitive games in his 6 seasons at Doncaster he scored 65 goals including two hattricks.
Just as Doncaster were elected into the Football League for the 1901−02 season, Linward moved to Southern League club West Ham United receiving a wage of £2.10s a week. He played in all 30 League games for West Ham that season plus one game before being bought by.
After three seasons with, which involved being promoted to the First Division for the first time in their history, he moved to Norwich City, Kilmarnock and then Maidstone United. Linward died in West Ham in 1940 aged 62 years.