George Brown (footballer born 1903)

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Bomber Brown
Personal information
Date of birth	(1903-06-22)22 June 1903
Place of birth	Mickley, England
Date of death	10 June 1948(1948-06-10) (aged 44)
Place of death	Birmingham, England
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
	Mickley Colliery
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1921–1929	Huddersfield Town	213	(142)
1929–1934	Aston Villa	116	(79)
1934–1935	Burnley	35	(24)
1935–1936	Leeds United	37	(19)
1936–1938	Darlington	44	(12)
National team
1926–1932	England	9	(5)
Teams managed
1936–1938	Darlington (player)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

George Brown (22 June 1903 – 10 June 1948), nicknamed Bomber, was an English professional footballer and football manager, who played most of his career with Huddersfield Town.

Playing career

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.

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.

Honours

As a player

Huddersfield Town

FA Charity Shield winner: 1922
Division 1 champions: 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26
Division 1 runners-up: 1926–27, 1927–28
FA Cup finalist: 1928

Managerial statistics

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	L	D	Win %
Darlington		October 1936	October 1938	90	23	45	22	25.6

External links

v t e Darlington F.C. – managers

McIntosh (1902–11^s) Lane (1911–12^s) Jackson (1912–19) English (1919–21^p) English (1921–28) Fairless (1928–33) Collins (1933–36) Brown (1936–38^p) J. Carr (1938–42) Surtees (1942) English (1945–46) Forrest (1946–50) Irwin (1950–52) Gurney (1952–57) Duckworth (1957–60) E. Carr (1960–64) Morgan (1964–66^p) 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) F. 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 (2002–03^c) Tait (2003) Hodgson (2003–06) M. Gray and Maddison (2006^c) Penney (2006–09) M. Gray (2009^c) Liddle and Maddison (2009^c) Todd (2009) Liddle (2009^c) Staunton (2009–10) Liddle and Maddison (2010^c) Davey (2010) Kidd (2010) Cooper (2010–11) Liddle (2011–12^p) M. Gray (2012)

(c) caretaker; (p) player manager; (s) secretary

Persondata
Name	Brown, George
Alternative names
Short description	English footballer and manager
Date of birth	22 June 1903
Place of birth	Mickley, England
Date of death	10 June 1948
Place of death	Birmingham, England

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