Background
Butler was born in Stillington, County Durham.
Butler was born in Stillington, County Durham.
His clubs included Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Bury, Bradford City, Oldham Athletic and Crewe Alexandra. At Bradford he scored 16 goals in 40 games, with all but one of those goals coming in the 1924-1925 season, when he was club"s top goal-scorer scoring nearly half their goals, as City struggled in the bottom half of Division Two.