A year or so later his professional technique scored another success.
His final year there he scored 140 points in 66 games.
He remained an important part of the United first team for the following three years making over 140 appearances in total and scoring 37 goals.
He's one of those guys that three years down the road can score 20, 25 goals in this league.
Economists put these conditions on a simple scale, with a year in perfect health scored at 1.
He had only a single game in 1946, but the following year established his place in the side and scored four hundreds.
As she wrote later, "at eight years old I'd scored my first victory".
There were 6,442 goals scored in 1,230 regular-season games last year, an average of 5.24 a game.
Whitcroft lead the league two years running in goals scored.
He was a first choice player in the U21 team that year, scoring three tries.