Ray Warren (footballer)

{{Short description|English footballer (1918–1988)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Ray Warren

| image =

| fullname = Raymond Richard Warren

| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|06|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bristol, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1988|03|13|1918|06|23|df=y}}

| death_place = Bristol, England

| height = 5 ft 8 in{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-dispatch-football-guide-1936-xi-d/134447459/ |title=Bristol Rovers. Rovers make clean sweep. Skill, youth and experience |newspaper=Sunday Dispatch Football Guide |location=London |date=23 August 1936 |page=xi |via=Newspapers.com}}

| position = Defender

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Parson Street Old Boys

| years1 = 1936–1956

| clubs1 = Bristol Rovers

| caps1 = 450

| goals1 = 28

}}

Raymond Richard Warren (23 June 1918 – 13 March 1988) was a professional footballer who spent his entire career at Bristol Rovers.{{cite web |url=http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2004/8.31.04/index_tue.php#TheLighthouse |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217064951/http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2004/8.31.04/index_tue.php#TheLighthouse |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 December 2004 |title=Youra Eshaya, the "Desert Footballer" |work=Zinda magazine |date=31 August 2004 |accessdate=9 November 2008 }} He joined the club on 12 March 1936, at the age of 17, and spent twenty years playing as a centre-half with the Eastville club until retiring in 1956.{{cite book |last=Byrne |first=Stephen |author2=Jay, Mike

|title=Bristol Rovers Football Club - The Definitive History 1883-2003

|year=2003 |publisher=Tempus

|location=Stroud |isbn=0-7524-2717-2}} |page=p. 507 On 26 March 2021, Warren became the fifth player to be inducted into the newly created Bristol Rovers Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2021/march/hall-of-fame-ray-warren/|title=Hall of Fame: Ray Warren|website=www.bristolrovers.co.uk|date=26 March 2021|accessdate=26 March 2021}}