Walter Gowers
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Personal information
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| Full name | Walter Gowers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | first ¼ 1903 Wigan district, England |
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| Died | third ¼ 1965 (aged 62) Rochdale district, England |
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Playing information
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| Position | Fullback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walter Gowers (birth registered first ¼ 1903 – death registered third ¼ 1965) was a professional rugby league, and association football (soccer) footballer of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. He played representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and Lancashire, and at club level for Platt Lane ARLFC (in Wigan), Rochdale Hornets (two spells), and St. Helens, as a goal-kicking fullback, i.e. number 1, and club level association football (soccer) for Preston North End (reserves in 1926), as a full-back.
Walter Gowers' birth was registered in Wigan district, Lancashire, and he died aged 62 in Rochdale district, Lancashire.
Walter Gowers represented Great Britain in non-Test matches on the 1928 Great Britain rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand, scoring 27-goals.
Walter Gowers represented Lancashire while at Rochdale Hornets, winning four county championship medals.
Walter Gowers holds Rochdale Hornets' "most appearances in a career" record with 456-appearances between 1922 and 1946, and holds Rochdale Hornets' "most points in a career" record with 1497-points scored between 1922 and 1946. He previously held Rochdale Hornets' "most goals in a season" record with 109-goalsin the 1933–34 season, this record was extended by Graham Starkey in the 1966–67 season.
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