Walter Gowers

Walter Gowers
Personal information
Full name Walter Gowers
Born January→March 1903
Wigan, Lancashire
Playing information
Position fullback
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1922–36 Rochdale Hornets 455 5 733 24 1497
1936 St. Helens 6 7 2 18
12 January 1946 Rochdale Hornets 1
Total 462 5 740 26 1515
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≥1922–≤36 Lancashire
1928 Great Britain 0
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk

Walter Gowers (birth registered January→March 1903[1] — death unknown) birth registered in Wigan district, was a professional rugby league and association football (soccer) footballer of the 1920s, '30s and '40s, playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and Lancashire, and at club level for Platt Lane ARLFC (Wigan), Rochdale Hornets (twice), and St. Helens, as a fullback, i.e. number 1, and playing club level association football (soccer) for Preston North End (reserves in 1926), as a Full-back.

Playing career

International honours

Walter Gowers represented Great Britain in non-Test matches on the 1928 Great Britain rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand, scoring 27-conversions.[2]

County honours

Walter Gowers represented Lancashire while at Rochdale Hornets, winning four county championship medals.

Career records

Walter Gowers holds Rochdale Hornets' "most appearances in a career" record with 456-appearances between 1922 and 1946, and holds Rochdale Hornets' "most points in a career" record with 1497-points scored between 1922 and 1946. He previously held Rochdale Hornets' "most conversions in a season" record with 109-conversions in the 1933–34 season, this record was extended by Graham Starkey in the 1966–67 season.

Genealogical information

Walter Gowers' marriage to Mary E. Prescott was registered during January→March 1929 in Chorley district.[3] They had children; Winifred J. Gowers (birth registered July→September 1930 in Rochdale district), John Gowers (birth registered January→March 1934 in Wigan district), and the Swinton and Great Britain rugby league footballer (full back) of the 1960s, Ken Gowers. Walter Gowers was the great-grandfather of the Middlesex cricketer John Simpson (Ken Gowers' grandson).

References

  1. "Birth details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. "Profile at saints.org.uk". saints.org.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  3. "Marriage details at freebmd.org.uk". freebmd.org.uk. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.

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