- Albert Frederick Brown
Infobox Football biography
playername = Albert Brown
fullname = Albert Frederick Brown
nickname = The Tamworth Sprinter
height = height|ft=5|in=11
weight =
dateofbirth = April 1879
cityofbirth =Tamworth
countryofbirth =England
dateofdeath = Not known
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
position = Striker
youthyears = 18??–18??
youthclubs = Atherstone Star
years = 18??–1898
1898–1901
1901–1902
1902–1904
1904–1905
1905–1906
clubs = Tamworth
Aston Villa
Southampton
Queens Park Rangers
Preston North End
Blackpool
caps(goals) = 0? 0(?)
02 0(2)
26 (25)
30 (11)
22 0(7)
03 0(0)
managerclubs =
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ntupdate =Albert Frederick Brown (born April 1879) was an English professional footballer who scored a goal in the
1902 FA Cup Final for Southampton, and also scored a record seven goals in one match. His date of death is unknown.Playing career
Brown was born in
Tamworth ,England and started his career with the local Tamworth club, before joining Aston Villa in February 1898. He only made two first-team appearances for Villa in the 1900–01 season (in which he scored two goals) before moving (along withTommy Bowman ) to Southampton in May 1901.Brown was reputed to be the fastest sprinter in English football and was known as the "Tamworth Sprinter". His career at Southampton got off to a slow start, scoring only once in his first three games before injury forced him to miss three games in October/November 1901. On his return from injury, he started to score more freely and by Christmas he had scored seven goals. In his next game he doubled his tally for the season as he scored a club record seven goals in a match against Northampton Town at The Dell on
December 28 1901 . His first goal came almost straight from the kick-off and within five minutes he had completed hishat trick . By half time Saints were 7–0 up, with Brown contributing four. He added three more in the second half as Saints completed the rout (the other goals came from Sam Meston (2),Fred Harrison and Arthur Turner). [cite book |author=David Bull & Bob Brunskell |title=Match of the Millennium |publisher=Hagiology |year=2000| pages=p.26-27 for a full report on the match |id=ISBN 0-9534474-1-3]He finished the 1901–02 season season having scored 25 league goals from 25 games, as Saints ended the season in third place in the Southern League. He also made eight appearances in the
FA Cup , scoring four times including Saints' goal in the replay of the final on28 April 1902 , as Saints went down 2–1 to Sheffield United.During the summer of 1902, he sustained a serious injury which lost him his place in the starting line-up to John Fraser. Brown only made one further appearance for Southampton, before being sold to Queens Park Rangers in October 1902.
After two seasons with QPR, he moved on to Preston North End in May 1904 and then to Blackpool in March 1906, where he finished his career.
Honours
Southampton
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FA Cup finalist: 1902Footnotes
References
*cite book
author=Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk
title=The Alphabet of the Saints
publisher= ACL & Polar Publishing
year=1992
id=ISBN 0-9514862-3-3
*cite book
author=Gary Chalk & Duncan Holley
title=Saints - A complete record
publisher= Breedon Books
year=1987
id=ISBN 0-907969-22-4
*cite book
author=David Bull & Bob Brunskell
title=Match of the Millennium
publisher=Hagiology
year=2000
id=ISBN 0-9534474-1-3
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