Billy Brawn

Billy Brawn

Personal information
Full name	William Frederick Brawn
Date of birth	(1878-08-01)1 August 1878
Place of birth	Wellingborough, England
Date of death
Place of death	Brentford, England
Position(s)	Outside right
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1894–1897	Wellingborough Town
1897–1900	Northampton Town
1900–1901	Sheffield United	14	(4)
1901–1906	Aston Villa	96	(19)
1906–1907	Middlesbrough	56	(5)
1907–1911	Chelsea	93	(10)
1911–1913	Brentford
1918	Tottenham Hotspur
International career
1904	England	2	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Frederick Brawn (1 August 1878 – 18 August 1932) was an English international footballer, who played as an outside right.

Playing career

Born in Wellingborough, Brawn began his career at local Leicestershire & Northants League side Wellingborough Town. He moved to join Northants League side Northampton Town in 1897. Brawn secured a move to professional football when he joined Division One side Sheffield United in 1900. He moved on to Aston Villa, and earned two caps for England in 1904 and won the 1905 FA Cup with the club. Brawn also played for Chelsea, making 99 appearances and scoring 11 goals, and also had spells at Middlesbrough and Brentford. The final competitive appearance of Brawn's career came in the colours of Tottenham Hotspur, when the White Hart Lane club turned up a man short for a London Combination fixture versus Brentford at Griffin Park on 8 November 1918.

Administrative career

Brawn served on the Brentford board of directors in 1919 and acted as "advisory manager" from 1919 until 1921.

Personal life

While with Brentford FC, Billy Brawn ran the Kings Arms Hotel at 19 Boston Road, Brentford.

Honours

As a player

Aston Villa

• FA Cup (1): 1904/05

External links

• Billy Brawn career statistics at Soccerbase