Arnold Rodgers | |
Fullname: | Arnold William Rodgers |
Birth Date: | 5 December 1923 |
Birth Place: | Rotherham, England |
Death Date: | October 1993 |
Death Place: | Bristol, England |
Position: | Striker |
Years1: | 1946–1950 |
Years2: | 1950–1956 |
Years3: | 1956 |
Clubs3: | Shrewsbury Town |
Caps1: | 28 |
Caps2: | 195 |
Caps3: | 13 |
Goals1: | 17 |
Goals2: | 106 |
Goals3: | 3 |
Arnold William Rodgers (5 December 1923 – October 1993) was an English professional footballer who made over 230 Football League appearances in the years after the Second World War in a career for Huddersfield Town, Bristol City and Shrewsbury Town.
Rodgers had initially played for Huddersfield as a guest in 1942, before he signed on full-time in 1946. After Shrewsbury Town he moved to Somerset where he was manager for non-league clubs Welton Rovers, which he helped to two losing first round appearances in the FA Cup (in 1964-65 and 1967-68), and Bath City from 1967 to 1971.
Following retirement from football he ran a business in Bristol as a florist for 37 years until he died of a heart attack in October 1993, aged 69.[1]