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Footballer
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Male
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Birth:
10 June 1925(Stockton-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, Tees Valley, United Kingdom)
Death:
December 2004(Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
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The details
Biography
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.
His playing style was that of a "hard man". According to his teammate Baden Powell, "Roy Brown would hit a player like an Exocet missile".
He worked at engineering firm Head Wrightson in Stockton-on-Tees.