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Ray Powell
Welsh footballer

Ray Powell

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Welsh footballer
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Morriston, City and County of Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Place of death
Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom
Age
89 years
Sports Teams
Kettering Town F.C.
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Biography

Raymond Powell (5 August 1924 – May 2014) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a centre forward in the Football League for Swansea Town and Scunthorpe & Lindsey United. He played non-league football for Haverfordwest Athletic, Kettering Town, Banbury Spencer and Wellingborough Town, where he was player-manager.

Life and career

Powell was born in 1924 in Morriston, Swansea, and attended Glanmôr School. He was called up to the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and met his future wife while serving in South Africa. He played both football and rugby during the war for RAF teams and football for Cambridge Town, Morriston and Haverfordwest Athletic. While playing against Swansea Town in 1947, Powell impressed that club's manager enough to take him on as a professional. He scored freely for the reserve side, but played little first-team football – after his first season, in which he scored four goals from 13 Football League matches, he made just 6 first-team appearances in any competition in three years. In 1951, Powell joined Third Division North club Scunthorpe & Lindsey United. He stayed for only one season, in which he was the club's top scorer with 14 league goals, and then left the professional game. He remained in non-league football, playing part-time for Kettering Town and Banbury Spencer and acting as player-manager of Wellingborough Town, until moving to Romford, Essex, in 1961 and working as company secretary of a security firm. Powell died in Essex in 2014 at the age of 89.

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