| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ronald William Herbert Powell[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 2 December 1929 | ||
| Place of birth | Knighton, Wales | ||
| Date of death | 1992 | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10.5 in (1.79 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| ?–1948 | Knighton Town | ? | (?) |
| 1948–1952 | Manchester City | 12 | (0) |
| 1952–1964 | Chesterfield | 471 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Ron Powell (2 December 1929-1992[2]) was a footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League between 1948 and 1964, and who played over 500 senior games.
He started with his home-town side Knighton Town, before transferring to Manchester City in November 1948, although he did not make his league debut until the following season.[1] However, he only played 13 senior games for City in four years and in the summer of 1952 he joined Chesterfield.[1] All of his appearances for City came in the 1949–50 season, and he was in goals for the short period between the careers of Frank Swift and Bert Trautmann.[3]
Powell missed only two league games in his first season with the club, and he went on to make 471 league appearances for them, and 508 matches in total, in a 12 year career with the club. In 1958 his run of playing 284 consecutive league games for the club was halted when Gordon Banks played.[4] His playing career was ended in December 1964 following a car crash which killed his team-mate Ralph Hunt, and which also injured Doug Wragg and Peter Stringfellow.[5]