Brown: John Murchie (John)

WW2 Guest: 1939-1943 (Leeds United War-time Guest Player Details)

Outside Left

Born: Scotland: Unknown

Debut: v Bradford City (h): 28-10-1939

Height & Weight: Unknown

Little is known about John Brown other than it is believed that he was on the Leeds United ground-staff or lower grade teams. "He joined Leeds from Third Lanark as an eighteen-year-old on 28th May 1938. Apart for the handful of games in war, he didn’t return to club until the start of the 1946-47 season, when he found that he couldn’t even be guaranteed a place in the Reserves. He was given a free-transfer at the end of that season". (Information kindly supplied by Neil Roche). He played several games for Leeds during the Second World War, but not on a regular basis. He was at Outside Left in the first Regional League North-Eastern Division in the first tournament after the War began. He played in the first six games of that campaign, and then missed a game before playing two further games. He scored in his first and third games as United started the campaign with four straight wins. After that he found it hard to get a game, playing at Left Back in the consecutive home games with Gateshead and Sunderland in September 1941. He had three games at Outside Left in the 5-3 win at Newcastle United on 26th September 1942, in which he scored, then two weeks later at Elland Road in a 6-0 thumping of Doncaster Rovers and a fortnight later in a 1-2 home defeat against Sunderland. John Brown returned to Leeds after the War but did not make the grade.