George Brown (English footballer)

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George Brown
Personal information
Full name George Brown
Date of birth 22 June 1903
Place of birth    Birmingham, England
Date of death    June 10, 1948 (aged 44)
Place of death    Birmingham, England
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current club Retired
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1921–1929
1929–19??
19??–19??
19??–19??
1936–1938		 Huddersfield Town
Aston Villa
Burnley
Leeds United
Darlington		 213 (142)
0? 0(?)
0? 0(?)
0? 0(?)
0? 0(?)   
Teams managed
1936–1938 Darlington (player)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

George Brown (born 22 June 1903-died 10 June 1948 in Birmingham), nicknamed Bomber, was a professional English footballer and football manager.

During his career he scored 273 goals in 440 games, between 1921 and 1938, after which he retired to run a pub. He gained 9 full England caps and represented the Football League once.

A centre-forward, he was the highest ever goal-scorer for Huddersfield Town with 159 goals; 142 in the League in 213 appearances and 17 from 16 outings in the FA Cup. Signed straight from his pit team at Mickley in May 1921, he was eventually sold to Aston Villa in August 1929 for £5,000.

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McIntosh (secretary) (1902–11) • Lane (secretary) (1911–12) • Jackson (1912–19) • English (1919–28) • Fairless (1928–33) • Collins (1933–36) • Brown (player) (1936–38) • Carr (1938–42) • Surtess (1942) • English (1945–46) • Forrest (1946–50) • Irwin (1950–52) • Gurney (1952–57) • Duckworth (1957–60) • Carr (1960–64) • Morgan (player) (1964–66) • Greenhalgh (1966–68) • Yeoman (1968–70) • Richley (1970–71) • Brennan (1971–72) • Hale (1972) • Jones (1972) • Brand (1972–73) • Conner (1973–74) • Horner (1974–75) • Madden (1975–78) • Walker (1978–79) • Elliott (1979–83) • Knowles (1983–87) • Booth (1987–89) • Little (1989–91) • Gray (1991–92) • Hankin (1992) • McEwan (1992–93) • Murray (1993–95) • Futcher (1995) • Hodgson and Platt (1995) • Platt (1995–96) • Hodgson (1996–2000) • Bennett (2000–01) • Taylor (2001–02) • Tait (caretaker) (2002–03) • Tait (2003) • Hodgson (2003–06) • Gray and Maddison (joint caretakers) (2006) • Penney (2006–)
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