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Brough Fletcher
Personal information
Date of birth (1893-03-09)9 March 1893
Place of birth Mealsgate, England
Date of death 12 May 1972(1972-05-12) (aged 79)
Place of death Bristol, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Chilton Colliery Recreation Athletic
Shildon Athletic
1913–1926 Barnsley 249 (51)
1926 Sheffield Wednesday 2 (0)
1926–1929 Barnsley 62 (21)
Managerial career
1930–1937 Barnsley
1938–1950 Bristol Rovers
1952–1953 Walsall
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Brough Fletcher (9 March 1893 – 12 May 1972) was a footballer and football manager.

He played for Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley, and managed Barnsley, Bristol Rovers and Walsall.

He scored the only goal of the game in Barnsley's shock FA Cup first-round victory in 1920 at champions elect West Bromwich Albion.

References

  • Byrne, Stephen; Jay, Mike (2003). Bristol Rovers Football Club - The Definitive History 1883-2003. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-2717-2.
  • "Brough Fletcher". The Sheffield Wednesday Archive. Retrieved 23 October 2007.


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