5' 5.5"  10st.1lb.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  b. Wilmslow  26 August b. b. Wilmslow  26 August 1910
d. Macclesfield  15 June 1994

Debut  23 January 1937 (26y 150d) Final Game 28 January 1946 (35y 155d)
First Goal 27 February 1937 Final Goal 6 October 1945
CAREER: Wilmslow Albion;Alderley;Ashton National Gas;Stockport County Jun'29 (am)[8-1];Aug'29 (pro);Macclesfield Town May'32;Nantwich ’33;Huddersfield Town Aug'35[42-6];Blackburn Rovers Jan'37;York City Jan'47[25-2];Mansfield Town Oct'47[14-4];Mossley (p-m) Jun'48.
HONOURS 2nd Div Ch (Blackburn Rovers) ’39.
 

FL        110 apps    44 gls
FAC         7 apps      4 gls
Total  117 apps     48 gls
Penalty record  T 11 Sc 8 Sv 3
Strike rate 219 mins
War time
NWRL   11 apps  1 gls
NL         51 apps 35 gls  et 30 mins  3g-1
FLWC   12 apps 12 gls
Penalty record  T 9 Sc 8 M 1
LC          8 apps  2 gls

The double signing of Butt and Jock Wightman in January 1937 was one of the key building blocks that led to the club's promotion in 1939. After a stuttering career where he had dropped out of the Football League and worked as a stonemason, playing part-time with Macclesfield, Butt had rehabilitated himself in Huddersfield. Even so it was a surprise that Blackburn had acquired a complete inside forward who could forage effectively and keep his winger supplied but also displayed a previously hidden talent for clinical finishing. There was serious conjecture that he would play for England but the war prevented this although the player kept active enough playing for both Manchester clubs, Huddersfield, Wrexham, York, Chelsea, Stockport and Aldershot.  Football's resumption came too late to enable to further his career but he moved into management at Mossley and then his hometown, Wilmslow.