Background
Banks was born in Aston, now part of Birmingham.
Banks was born in Aston, now part of Birmingham.
He played as an outside forward. He played local football before joining Birmingham in 1909. This was the only first-team game he played for Birmingham.
He played non-league football for Stourbridge and Wellington Town, and then returned to the Football League with Nottingham Forest.
In two spells with the club either side of a season with Stalybridge Celtic and interrupted by the First World War, Banks played 73 games in all competitions, before moving back to non-league with Worksop Town in 1920. Banks went on to become N ottinghamshire County"s trainer, and he died in Nottingham in 1957.