Roy Brown | |
Fullname: | Roy Brown |
Birth Date: | 10 June 1925 |
Birth Place: | Stockton-on-Tees, England |
Death Place: | Middlesbrough, England |
Position: | Full back |
Youthyears1: | – |
Years1: | – |
Clubs1: | Stockton West End |
Years2: | 1946–1956 |
Caps2: | 159 |
Goals2: | 20 |
Roy Brown (10 June 1925 – December 2004) was an English footballer who scored 20 goals from 159 appearances in the Football League playing as a full back for Darlington in the years following the Second World War. He signed from non-league club Stockton West End.[1]
His playing style was that of a "hard man".[2] According to his teammate Baden Powell, "Roy Brown would hit a player like an Exocet missile".[3]
He worked at engineering firm Head Wrightson in Stockton-on-Tees.[4]