Personal information | |||
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Full name | Roy Brown [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 10 June 1925||
Place of birth | Stockton-on-Tees, [1] England | ||
Date of death | December 2004[1] | (aged 79)||
Place of death | Middlesbrough, [1] England | ||
Position(s) | Full back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
– | Stockton West End | ||
1946–1956 | Darlington | 159 | (20) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Roy Brown (10 June 1925 – December 2004) was an English footballer who scored 20 goals from 159 appearances in the Football League playing as a full back for Darlington in the years following the Second World War. He signed from non-league club Stockton West End. [2]
His playing style was that of a "hard man". [3] According to his teammate Baden Powell, "Roy Brown would hit a player like an Exocet missile". [4]
He worked at engineering firm Head Wrightson in Stockton-on-Tees. [5]
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Roy Brown [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 10 June 1925||
Place of birth | Stockton-on-Tees, [1] England | ||
Date of death | December 2004[1] | (aged 79)||
Place of death | Middlesbrough, [1] England | ||
Position(s) | Full back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
– | Stockton West End | ||
1946–1956 | Darlington | 159 | (20) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Roy Brown (10 June 1925 – December 2004) was an English footballer who scored 20 goals from 159 appearances in the Football League playing as a full back for Darlington in the years following the Second World War. He signed from non-league club Stockton West End. [2]
His playing style was that of a "hard man". [3] According to his teammate Baden Powell, "Roy Brown would hit a player like an Exocet missile". [4]
He worked at engineering firm Head Wrightson in Stockton-on-Tees. [5]