Career
He also made 9 appearances for England between 1886 and 1889, scoring 11 goals. His main claim to fame is scoring the first goal for Preston in their opening game in the inaugural season of The Football League on 8 September 1888 in a 5-2 victory over Burnley. Although Aston Villa"s Gershom Cox had scored the very first goal only minutes earlier, as this was an own goal, Dewhurst could claim to have scored the first "intentional" goal in the Football League.
In the 1888-1889 season he played 16 league games, scoring 12 goals.
He scored in both games.