5'7" 10st.5lb.
b. Blackburn  15-21 December 1864
d. Haslingden 15 December 1946
 

Debut  10 November 1883 Final Game 28 March 1891
First Goal 10 November 1883 Final Goal 4 March 1891
CAREER: King's Own;Blackburn Law’81;Blackburn Rovers'82;Accrington Jul'87;Blackburn Rovers'88;Southport Central Sum'89;Blackburn Rovers Dec'89;Northwich Victoria '92;Clitheroe Oct'93;Blackburn Rovers Sep'96.
HONOURS FAC win (Blackburn Rovers) ’85,’86.
 

FL           21 apps 13 gls
FAC        23 apps 13 gls
Total      44 apps 26 gls   et 30m
LC          18 apps 14 gls
 

The Fecitt family first came to Blackburn in the middle of the nineteenth century when William Fecitt opened up a grocer's shop. Herbie's father, Henry, had a painter and decorator's business in Montague Street and his sons Herbie and Arthur Henry followed him into the family business. After starting with King's Own Herbie's football artistry, which enabled him to hold the ball and beat a succession of opponents, attracted Blackburn Law. He played for the law clerks in the first round of the English Cup just before he was seventeen. Inevitably this attracted the Rovers but he did not break into their first team until 1884. When he did, he soon won English Cup winners' medals. Unexpectedly he left for Accrington but returned when the Football League commenced. A report mentioned that "he was still the player of old. He still has a fancy that he is the only player on the field." Subsequently he moved to Southport Central where he continued to play in the same vein. A return to the Rovers was followed by a move to Northwich, re-joining his old trainer Ted Murray, and finally a brief return to the Rovers to help out the reserves in an emergency. In the years after the turn of the century he was a linesman in the football League. He died when he was living with his daughter, Mrs. Greenwood, at the vicarage in Haslingden. He had the misfortune to receive a criminal record at the age of twelve, being caught in Witton tossing a coin in a heads or tails wager, for which he was fine one shilling.