Played for Villa: 1929-1934
Position: Centre forward
Appearances: 126
Villa had an embrassment of riches in their forward line of the 1920s and 1930s. Not as oft-noted as Waring, Houghton and Walker, George Brown was nevertheless one of the top strikers of his era, having played almost all of the 1920s in the famous Huddersfield team which won the League title three times in a row. He scored an all-time club record 142 for them before his transfer to Villa, maintaining about the same goals-to-game ratio with 89 in his five years. His first season at Villa was his most prolific, racking up 36 goals including at least one in every FA Cup fixture, and he would go on to score five in one game against Leicester in January 1932 - and we should also mention season 1932-33, when he went on the rampage with 11 in the first seven games, helping the club finish second with a personal tally of 35. An England international, Brown moved on to Burnley, where again he could hardly stop scoring, and then to Leeds, by which time he was nearing the end of his illustrious career. A spell as player-manager of Darlington was followed by a move out of football to run a pub in Aston. Brown died in 1948, just shy of his 45th birthday.
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Position: Centre forward
Appearances: 126
Villa had an embrassment of riches in their forward line of the 1920s and 1930s. Not as oft-noted as Waring, Houghton and Walker, George Brown was nevertheless one of the top strikers of his era, having played almost all of the 1920s in the famous Huddersfield team which won the League title three times in a row. He scored an all-time club record 142 for them before his transfer to Villa, maintaining about the same goals-to-game ratio with 89 in his five years. His first season at Villa was his most prolific, racking up 36 goals including at least one in every FA Cup fixture, and he would go on to score five in one game against Leicester in January 1932 - and we should also mention season 1932-33, when he went on the rampage with 11 in the first seven games, helping the club finish second with a personal tally of 35. An England international, Brown moved on to Burnley, where again he could hardly stop scoring, and then to Leeds, by which time he was nearing the end of his illustrious career. A spell as player-manager of Darlington was followed by a move out of football to run a pub in Aston. Brown died in 1948, just shy of his 45th birthday.
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