Roy Brown (footballer, born 1925)

Roy Brown
Personal information
Full name Roy Brown[1]
Date of birth (1925-06-10)10 June 1925[1]
Place of birth Stockton-on-Tees,[1] England
Date of death December 2004 (2005-01) (aged 79)[1]
Place of death Middlesbrough,[1] England
Playing position Full back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Stockton West End
1946–1956 Darlington 159 (20)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Roy Brown". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Memories in sound and text". Farewell to Feethams. Darlington Supporters' Trust. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  4. ↑ Amos, Mike (14 June 2012). "Baden Baden". The Northern Echo. Darlington. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "Backtrack". The Northern Echo. Darlington. 29 May 2010 – via Newsbank.


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