Arthur Brown (footballer, born 1903)

Arthur Brown
	Brown in 1929
Personal information
Full name	Arthur Ivor Brown
Date of birth	10 October 1903
Place of birth	Aberdare, Wales
Date of death	3 April 1971 (aged 67)
Place of death	Aberdare, Wales
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team
1925–1927	Aberdare Athletic
1927–1929	Reading
1929	Port Vale
1929–1933	Crewe Alexandra
	Merthyr Town
Total
International career
1926	Wales
	*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

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 the 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 Aberdate at the age of 67. His son, Malcolm Brown, was a professor of Computational Mathematics at Cardiff University^[2]

Source:^[3]

Club	Season	Division	League		Cup		Total
Club	Season	Division	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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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)

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