Ron Powell

For other people named Ronald Powell, see Ronald Powell (disambiguation).

Ron Powell
Personal information
Full name Ronald William Herbert Powell[1]
Date of birth (1929-12-02)2 December 1929
Place of birth Knighton, Wales
Date of death 25 May 1992(1992-05-25) (aged 62)
Place of death Rossall, England
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
?–1948 Knighton Town ? (?)
1948–1952 Manchester City 12 (0)
1952–1964 Chesterfield 471 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ronald William Herbert Powell (2 December 1929 – 25 May 1992) was a footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League between 1948 and 1964, and who played over 500 senior games.[2][3]

He started with his home-town side Knighton Town, before transferring to Manchester City in November 1948,[4] although he did not make his league debut until the following season.[1] However, he only played 13 senior games for City in four years,[1] and in the summer of 1952 he joined Chesterfield.[4] All of his appearances for City came in the 1949–50 season, and he was in goals for the short period between the careers of Frank Swift and Bert Trautmann.[5]

Powell missed only two league games in his first season with Chesterfield, and he went on to make 471 league appearances for them, and 508 matches in total, in a 12-year career with the club.[citation needed] In 1958 his run of playing 284 consecutive league games for the club was halted when Gordon Banks played.[6] His playing career was ended in December 1964 following a car crash which killed his team-mate Ralph Hunt, and which also injured Doug Wragg and Peter Stringfellow.[7]

  1. ^ a b c allfootballers.com (defunct site)
  2. ^ Ron Powell at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
  3. ^ "Ron Powell". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Ron Powell". cfchistory.com. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  5. ^ Gary James (2006). Manchester City: The Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. pp. 366, 538. ISBN 1-85983-512-0.
  6. ^ "Chesterfield F.C.: a potted history". Chesterfield FC Official Site. 23 May 2009. Archived from the original on 13 April 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  7. ^ "Youth Team Coach: Ivan Hollett". Mansfield Town FC Official Site. 13 November 2007. Archived from the original on 29 September 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2016.