Bill Brown (footballer, born 1931)

Bill Brown
Personal information
Full name William Dallas Fyfe Brown[1]
Date of birth (1931-10-08)8 October 1931
Place of birth Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
Date of death 30 November 2004(2004-11-30) (aged 73)
Place of death Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Carnoustie Panmure
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1949–1959 Dundee 215 (0)
1959–1966 Tottenham Hotspur 222 (0)
1966–1967 Northampton Town 17 (0)
1967 Toronto Falcons 16 (0)
Total 470 (0)
International career
1956 Scotland B 1 (0)
1956–1958 Scottish League XI 8 (0)
1958[3] SFL trial v SFA 1 (0)
1958–1965 Scotland 28 (0)
1959[4] SFA trial v SFL 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Tottenham Hotspur in 1960 with Bill Brown, John Hollowbread and Danny Blanchflower in the team with Bill Nicholson as manager.

William Dallas Fyfe Brown (8 October 1931 – 30 November 2004) was a Scottish football goalkeeper.

Brown played for Dundee between 1949 and 1959, and for Tottenham Hotspur between 1959 and 1966. He was part of the Spurs team that won the Double of Football League and FA Cup in 1961 - the first club to achieve the feat in the 20th century. He was also capped 28 times for the Scotland national team.

  1. ^ "Bill Brown". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Club saddened to hear of passing of Bill Brown". Tottenham Hotspur. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  3. ^ Scottish trial match at Easter Road Archived 9 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Glasgow Herald, 4 February 1958
  4. ^ The selectors still have problems Archived 14 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The Bulletin, 17 March 1959