General's father must have been in the military as he named two of his sons, General and Admiral! On 9 December 1897 the Sheffield Evening Telegraph announced that "Mr Tom Watson, on behalf of the Liverpool F.C., has signed on General Stevenson, full back of the Padiham Club, who is considered one of the best backs in the Lancashire Combination, and last season captained the Hapton team when they won the Lancashire Junior Cup. Both the Blackburn Rovers and Burnley clubs were after him, but he decided to go to Liverpool." Nearly a year passed before the right-back made his first-team debut. He went on to play 22 games for Liverpool at the end of the nineteenth century before being replaced by Archie Goldie. General spent the majority of his career at Millwall in the Western League, which the Lions won twice, in 1908 and 1909. The Lions' captain played 318 games and scored nine goals at the club.