DAVE HICKSON, the former Huddersfield Town star who played for all three Merseyside clubs, Everton, Liverpool and Tranmere, has died aged 83.
Known as the Cannonball Kid because of his fierce shot, the forward averaged better than a goal every two games when he was at Leeds Road in the Fifties.
Signed from Aston Villa in November 1955, Hickson netted 31 times in 60 appearances before beginning a second stint at Everton in the 1957 close-season, ending withe more than 100 goals for the Toffees.
He had begun his league career at Goodison, and while he also shone in the colours of arch-rivals Liverpool between 1959-61, then played for Bury and Tranmere, he was an Evertonian to the end.
Born in Salford but raised in Ellesmere Port, where he played for the Cheshire town’s non-league club before signing for Everton in 1948, he featured alongside the likes of Jimmy Glazzard, Vic Metcalfe, Denis Law and Ray Wilson at Town, and he scored in the 2-1 FA Cup fifth-round defeat by Burnley in front of 55,168 at Leeds Road in February, 1957.
