Career
As a youth, he assisted Blackburn Saint Peter"s and later played for Lancashire Combination side Darwen before joining Football League First Division club Blackburn Rovers in 1907. He went on to play 272 league matches in a 13-year spell with the Ewood Park side. Walmsley transferred to Stockport County at the start of the 1920-1921 season and spent three years at the club, scoring 3 goals in 80 league appearances.
During the 1815-1816 season Walmsley played 21 matches as a wartime guest with Burnley, scoring once.