Arnold William Rodgers (5 December 1923 – October 1993) was an English professional

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who made over 230

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appearances in the years after the

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in a career for

Huddersfield Town Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. They compete in , the third tier of English football league system, English football. Huddersfield Town we ...

Bristol City Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England. The team compete in the , the second level of the English football league system. Founded in 1894, the club competed in the Southern League and Western L ...

and

Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The team currently competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1886, the club were inaugur ...

. Rodgers had initially played for Huddersfield as a guest in 1942, before he signed on full-time in 1946. After Shrewsbury Town he moved to

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where he was manager for non-league clubs Welton Rovers, which he helped to two losing first round appearances in the

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(in 1964-65 and 1967–68), and Bath City from 1967 to 1971. Following retirement from football he ran a business in

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as a florist for 37 years until he died of a

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in October 1993, aged 69.

References

* 1923 births 1993 deaths English men's footballers Footballers from Rotherham Men's association football forwards English Football League players Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players Bristol City F.C. players Shrewsbury Town F.C. players 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-footy-forward-1920s-stub