spittingfeathers Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 Arthur Rowley Full name: George Arthur Rowley First game: Bury, 19.08.1950 Birthdate: 21.04.1926 Last game: Tottenham Hotspur, 19.04.1958 Birthplace: Wolverhampton Games: 321 Position: Inside-left Goals: 265 Nationality: England Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broughtonblue Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 My grandad used to rave over this bloke. Said he was brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittingfeathers Posted 5 March 2013 Author Share Posted 5 March 2013 Rowley was one of City's most prolific ever strikers, scoring 265 goals in 321 games for the club in a scintillating eight year spell. He's one of the most prolific scorers ever in the Football League, too, and comes only behind Arthur Chandler in the City goalscoring record books. Indeed, his career goals tally was 433 in 619 games and it was the Foxes who got the best of his career. Born in Wolverhampton, he started his career with local side Blackhall St Lukes before getting his chance with Wolverhampton Wanderers as an amateur. However, his hometown club missed the boat and never signed him to professional terms. Instead, Arthur made the short trip to West Brom after serving in the war and got some more regular first-team action, but he wasn't able to show his impressive goalscoring ability with the Baggies. Ironically, he actually played for West Brom against City - but as a stand-in goalkeeper. The West Midlands club never used him to his full potential but Fulham, his next club, did, and it was where he made his name. His performances, and goals, helped the London club into the top flight in 1949 but he stayed just two years before arriving at Filbert Street, and never looking back. Unsurprisingly, Arthur scored in his Leicester debut - an away clash at Bury in August 1950, and it was a surefire sign of things to come in the blue and white kit. His integration into the Foxes first team was pretty much seamless, something highlighted by his 28 goals. His form just got better and better, with 38 goals coming the following season and 39 the year after. His 30 goals in 1954 helped City to promotion but he also suffered relegation whilst at the club. Still, he used that as an excuse to score a record-breaking 44 goals in an ever-present campaign. Arthur had one more season to come with City, scoring 20 goals back in the First Division, but he moved on to finish his career with Shrewsbury. It was a questionable decision by the club, but Arthur didn't let that stop him to score goals with the Shrews, taking his tally to 433 goals. During his career, he'd scored goals regularly in all four divisions. But his performances somehow didn't merit a full England cap. He played for England B, and scored, but was never handed full representative honours for his country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broughtonblue Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 Bit of a random thread! Any significance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittingfeathers Posted 5 March 2013 Author Share Posted 5 March 2013 265 goals in 321 games for us Astonishing No other significance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwan is a Welshman Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 Thanks for the post, always interesting to read about a legend. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1416849/Arthur-Rowley.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beryllind Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 Rowley was one of City's most prolific ever strikers, scoring 265 goals in 321 games for the club in a scintillating eight year spell. He's one of the most prolific scorers ever in the Football League, too, and comes only behind Arthur Chandler in the City goalscoring record books. Indeed, his career goals tally was 433 in 619 games and it was the Foxes who got the best of his career. Born in Wolverhampton, he started his career with local side Blackhall St Lukes before getting his chance with Wolverhampton Wanderers as an amateur. However, his hometown club missed the boat and never signed him to professional terms. Instead, Arthur made the short trip to West Brom after serving in the war and got some more regular first-team action, but he wasn't able to show his impressive goalscoring ability with the Baggies. Ironically, he actually played for West Brom against City - but as a stand-in goalkeeper. The West Midlands club never used him to his full potential but Fulham, his next club, did, and it was where he made his name. His performances, and goals, helped the London club into the top flight in 1949 but he stayed just two years before arriving at Filbert Street, and never looking back. Unsurprisingly, Arthur scored in his Leicester debut - an away clash at Bury in August 1950, and it was a surefire sign of things to come in the blue and white kit. His integration into the Foxes first team was pretty much seamless, something highlighted by his 28 goals. His form just got better and better, with 38 goals coming the following season and 39 the year after. His 30 goals in 1954 helped City to promotion but he also suffered relegation whilst at the club. Still, he used that as an excuse to score a record-breaking 44 goals in an ever-present campaign. Arthur had one more season to come with City, scoring 20 goals back in the First Division, but he moved on to finish his career with Shrewsbury. It was a questionable decision by the club, but Arthur didn't let that stop him to score goals with the Shrews, taking his tally to 433 goals. During his career, he'd scored goals regularly in all four divisions. But his performances somehow didn't merit a full England cap. He played for England B, and scored, but was never handed full representative honours for his country. Great goal scorer with some very good players with him, nearly always sure to see 3 or 4 goals a match, wouldn't that be nice theses days Any idea when he passed on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Rod Hull Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 http://www.thisislei...l#axzz2MgVMUMZh Rowley was always quick to praise the role of his team-mates during his glory days in the 1950s. "Derek Hogg and Mal Griffiths were two tremendous crossers of the ball," he recalled, as well as acknowledging the contribution of Jack Froggatt and Derek Hines among others. My great uncle Derek (116 goals in 299 matches) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilo Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 What a legend he was, incredible scoring rate. If memory serves, he was at Filbert Street for the last game and got a great reception from the crowd along with Sep Smith. Sad that our legendary home, our longest serving player and record goalscorer are all now long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockyfox Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 Yes! Arthur Rowley was brilliant. Most oF his goals were scored with his deadly left foot. I only saw him head the ball once and that was accidental. When he took a penalty, everybody knew where the ball was going - bottom left hand corner, travelling like a torpedo, no more than a couple of inches above the ground. I never saw him miss. He didn't waste energy running around the pitch. Instead he would hover just outside the area, waiting patiently for the ball to come his way then BANG - that deadly left foot came into contact with the ball and City had scored another goal. It must be remembered that he was part of a brilliant forward line, led by Derek Hines who was almost as prolific as Rowley. Then there was Derek Hogg on the left wing - our equivalent of Stanley Matthews whilst over on the right wing, there was Welsh international Mal Griffiths who also scored goals for fun. Add to that the classy skills of Johnny Morris at Inside Right and that wa why we enjoyed our Saturday afternoons. In all, he scored sixteen hat-tricks of which I witnessed a fair few. But having scored a record 44 goals securing promotion to Division 1, he only scored 20 times in the top division! As far as Dave Halliday was concerned, Rowley was past it. He turned down a move to Lincoln and went to Gay Meadow - and carried on scoring! Want to read more? 'Of Fossils & Foxes - Page 311 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynamark Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 So was he any good?Good do with him back for the next few months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockyfox Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 So was he any good?Good do with him back for the next few months Quote from OF&F: - 'But nothing could dim the Leicester folk memory of 'The Gunner' on a one man stampede past helplessly flailing defenders, bringing his thunderbolt left peg into lethal action, and giving the Goalkeepers' Union a collective backache.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voll Blau Posted 5 March 2013 Share Posted 5 March 2013 My grandad used to rave over this bloke. Said he was brilliant Same. Him and Don Revie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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