Second Division title, although White made only ten appearances with ten goals. White soon made his mark back in the First Division, with a hat-trick in the second match of the season at Portsmouth's Fratton Park. He contributed 18 goals in 23 league appearances as Everton claimed the Football League title, a year after gaining promotion. By now White was playing as a half-back rather than a forward and in the 1932–33 season he only scored twice from a total of 40 appearances as Everton finished mid-table in the league. They made up for this, however, by reaching the final of the FA Cup where they met Manchester City. In the final, played at Wembley Stadium on 29 April 1933, both teams, who normally played in blue shirts, were required to wear neutral colours with Everton in white and Manchester City in red; also for the first time in an FA Cup match, the players's shirts were numbered, with Everton wearing one to eleven and Manchester City wearing twelve to twenty-two. White played at centre-half, wearing No.5, in a match controlled by Everton, who won comfortably with goals from Jimmy Stein, Dixie Dean and Jimmy Dunn to claim their second FA Cup. White's successes with Everton earned him a call-up to the England when, along with his Everton teammate Albert Geldard, he was one of six debutantes selected for the first-ever match between England and Italy. The match was played on 13 May 1933 at Rome's Stadio Nazionale PNF and ended in a 1–1 draw with goals from Giovanni Ferrari and Cliff Bastin. Like his fellow-debutante, Billy Furness, White was not selected for England again. In the 1933–34 season, White scored 14 goals in 28 league appearances, including a hat-trick on 14 October 1933 in a 7–1 win over Blackburn Rovers. White's Everton career came to an end in October 1937, ten years after his debut; in that time he had made a total of 204 appearances for the first-team, scoring 66 goals. White then spent five months with Northampton Town followed by a move back to Merseyside with New Brighton. He made no Football League appearances for either club and retired at the end of the 1938–39 season. Later career During World War II, White worked in Liverpool Docks, where he continued to work until he died following a fall in 1967. Honours Everton Football League Second Division champions: