Arthur Brown (footballer, born 1903)
![]() Brown in 1929 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Arthur Ivor Brown[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 10 October 1903||
Place of birth | Aberdare, Wales[1] | ||
Date of death | 3 April 1971[1] | (aged 67)||
Place of death | Aberdare, Wales[1] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1925–1927 | Aberdare Athletic | 42 | (0) |
1927–1929 | Reading | 14 | (0) |
1929 | Port Vale | 1 | (0) |
1929–1933 | Crewe Alexandra | 117 | (0) |
Merthyr Town | |||
Total | 174 | (0) | |
International career | |||
1926 | Wales | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Arthur Ivor Brown (10 October 1903 – 3 April 1971) was a Welsh international footballer. A goalkeeper, he played for Aberdare Athletic, Reading, Port Vale, Crewe Alexandra, and Merthyr Town.
Career
[edit]Brown played for Aberdare Athletic and Reading before joining Port Vale in May 1929.[1] During his time Aberdare Athletic F.C., Arthur gained his only international cap for Wales in the 1925–26 British Home Championship, playing against Ireland losing 3–0. Unable to dislodge either Jack Prince or Ben Davies, his sole game for Port Vale was in a 2–1 win at Halifax Town on 31 August 1929.[1] He was transferred to Crewe Alexandra in October of that year and later played with Merthyr Town.[1] Arthur died on the 3rd April 1971 in his hometown of Aberdare at the age of 67. His son, Malcolm Brown, was a professor of Computational Mathematics at Cardiff University[2]
Career statistics
[edit]Source:[3]
Club | Season | Division | League | Cup | Total | |||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Aberdare Athletic | 1925–26 | Third Division South | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 0 |
1926–27 | Third Division South | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | |
Total | 42 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 0 | ||
Reading | 1928–29 | Second Division | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
Port Vale | 1929–30 | Third Division North | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Crewe Alexandra | 1929–30 | Third Division North | 31 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 0 |
1930–31 | Third Division North | 42 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 0 | |
1931–32 | Third Division North | 37 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 0 | |
1932–33 | Third Division North | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
Total | 117 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 126 | 0 | ||
Career total | 174 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 183 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 45. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
- ^ Brown, B. Malcolm; Schmidt, Karl Michael; Shipman, Stephen P.; Wood, Ian (2021). "The Inverse Problem for a Spectral Asymmetry Function of the Schrödinger Operator on a Finite Interval" (PDF). Mathematika. 67 (4): 788–806. doi:10.1112/mtk.12105. S2CID 221534315.
- ^ Arthur Brown at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)