Herbert Brown (footballer)

{{short description|English footballer}}

{{for|the outside right who played for Bradford City, Middlesbrough and York City|Bert Brown (footballer)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

|name = Herbert Brown

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|fullname = Herbert Archibald Brown

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|birth_place = Wilton Park, County Durham, England

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|height = 5 ft 9+1/2 in{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-chronicle-1931-darlington-previe/133767660/ |title=Football crash at Darlington if—! |first=Colin |last=Veitch |newspaper=Evening Chronicle |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=19 August 1931 |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}

|position = Left back

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|years1 = |clubs1 = Shildon

|years2 = 1928–1932 |clubs2 = Darlington |caps2 = 139 |goals2 = 7

|years3 = |clubs3 = Spennymoor United

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Herbert Archibald Brown (fl. 1928–1932) was an English footballer who made 139 appearances in the Football League playing for Darlington in the 1920s and 1930s. He also played non-league football for Shildon and Spennymoor United.{{cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |page=39 |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}} Brown, a left back, partnered Hughie Dickson at full back in the later part of Dickson's career.{{cite news |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19290902/345/0014 |title=Hartlepool's weak defence |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=2 September 1929 |page=14 |quote=Darlington's backs, Brown and Dickson, were a great pair |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}