Dave Brown

OVERALL STATISTICS

BIRTHAGESIGNED ONFROM
14-06-1946
N/A
21-04-1971
Wigan RU
DEBUTLAST MATCHLEFT
05-06-1971 v St. Gaudens
Keighley
1974- Leigh
CAREERAPPEARANCES (SUBS)
1970-1974
22 (3)
TRIESGOALSDGOALSPTS
12
0
0
36

Biography of Dave Brown



HERITAGE NO : 873
Dave Brown by Alex Service

Dave Brown was signed from Wigan Rugby Union Club and was the archetypal winger in terms of build, being five feet ten inches tall and twelve stones. He recorded a time of 9.9 seconds for the 100 yards, so he was certainly no slouch and held the try-scoring record for the Wigan Club, at one time scoring over 47 tries. Dave taught at St. Peter's School, Orrell and was a Lancashire county representative. He would have moved to Waterloo had he not signed for St. Helens. His debut was against St Gaudens, in the second leg of the European Championship at the end of the 1970-71 season, which Saints won 62-0, with Dave scoring one of the tries. During his time at Knowsley Road he made 19 appearances and scored twelve tries and never gave less than 100 percent. He was around at the time of two brilliant wingers at St. Helens, Les Jones and Roy Mathias, which limited his time at First Team level. Ironically, he came into the side at the last minute for the 1974 Club Championship clash with Warrington at Central Park, Wigan but did much to quell the effectiveness of Warrington winger John Bevan. Dave was later transferred to Leigh, to give him an increased chance of First Team football. He went on to play 30 matches for them, scoring 8 tries


SEASON STATISTICS

Season (Official Matches)TriesGoalsDGoalsMatches
1970~711 0 0 1
1971~721 0 0 4
1972~73 6 0 0 6
1973~74 1 0 0 7
1974~75 3 0 0 4
TOTALS:12 0 0 22
Season (Other Matches)TriesGoalsDGoalsMatches
1971~72 1001
1973~74 0001
TOTALS:1002

ALL MATCHES

DateMatchPosOpponentsCompVenueFTFTOTGDG
5th Jun 1971 1
W
 5 St. Gaudens ECF(2) H 62 0 1 VIEW
30th Jul 1971 --
L
 16 Salford * Fr Gallie Cup A 13 28 1 VIEW
12th Aug 1971 --NPS
W
 14 Warrington LC2 H 23 6 VIEW
17th Aug 1971 2
L
 5 Widnes LCSF H 10 12 VIEW
8th Sep 1971 3
L
 14 Castleford L A 13 22 VIEW
8th Jan 1972 4
W
 5 Wakefield Trinity L H 18 12 1 VIEW
12th Feb 1972 5
W
 14 Leigh L H 20 7 VIEW
16th Mar 1973 6
W
 14 Salford L H 21 4 2 VIEW
17th Apr 1973 7
W
 2 Bradford Northern L A 24 8 1 VIEW
20th Apr 1973 8
L
 2 Wigan L A 2 12 VIEW
23rd Apr 1973 9
W
 2 Widnes L H 15 5 1 VIEW
27th Apr 1973 10
W
 2 Leigh Ch1 H 29 14 1 VIEW
2nd May 1973 11
W
 2 Wakefield Trinity Ch2 H 28 0 1 VIEW
10th Aug 1973 --
L
 16 Salford * Fr Gallie Cup H 15 18 VIEW
6th Jan 1974 12
W
 5 Wakefield Trinity JP3 (rep) H 16 10 1 VIEW
12th Jan 1974 13
L
 5 Warrington JPSF A 9 20 VIEW
5th Apr 1974 14
W
 2 Leeds L H 17 5 VIEW
10th Apr 1974 15
W
 2 Wakefield Trinity L A 15 2 VIEW
12th Apr 1974 16
D
 2 Wigan L H 9 9 VIEW
15th Apr 1974 17
L
 2 Widnes L A 9 12 VIEW
18th May 1974 18
L
 2 Warrington MCCF N 12 13 VIEW
24th Sep 1974 19
L
 5 Wakefield Trinity FTP(2) A 15 18 VIEW
29th Sep 1974 20
L
 5 Swinton JP1 A 6 7 VIEW
6th Oct 1974 21
W
 5 Featherstone Rovers L A 22 8 2 VIEW
11th Oct 1974 22
W
 5 Keighley L H 33 7 1 VIEW
*Unofficial Match. **Non Playing Sub.
WINS : 14 | LOSSES : 10 | DRAWS : 1

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