Laurie Brown (footballer)

Laurie Brown
Personal information
Full name Laurence Brown[1]
Date of birth (1937-08-22)22 August 1937[1]
Place of birth Shildon, England
Date of death 30 September 1998(1998-09-30) (aged 61)[1]
Place of death Newton Aycliffe, England
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[2]
Position(s) Centre forward, centre half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
195?–195? Shildon
195?–195? Woking
195?–195? Fulham 0 (0)
195?–1959 Bishop Auckland
1959 Darlington 3 (0)
1959–1960 Bishop Auckland
1960–1961 Northampton Town 33 (22)
1961–1964 Arsenal 109 (2)
1964–1966 Tottenham Hotspur 62 (3)
1966–1968 Norwich City 81 (2)
1968–1969 Bradford Park Avenue 36 (1)
1969–1970 Altrincham 21 (0)
International career
1960 England Amateur 3 (0)
1960 Great Britain Olympic 6 (0)
Managerial career
1968–1969 Bradford Park Avenue (player-manager)
1969–1970 Altrincham (player-manager)
1970–1971 King's Lynn
Stockton
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Laurence Brown (22 August 1937 – 30 September 1998) was an English football player and manager. He made more than 300 appearances in the Football League, playing either at centre half or in the forward line for Darlington, Northampton Town, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City and Bradford Park Avenue. He was an England amateur international and captained Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Olympics.[3] He was player-manager of Bradford in the League, and also had managerial spells with non-league clubs Altrincham, King's Lynn and Stockton.

  1. ^ a b c "Laurie Brown". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference DExpheight was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Laurie Brown". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 December 2021.