Clarke: Reginald Leonard (Reg/‘Nobby’)

WW2 Guest: 1941-1942 (Leeds United War-time Guest Player Details)

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Born: Seaton, Devon: 00-00-1908

Debut: v Chesterfield (h): 02-05-1942

Height & Weight: Unknown

Clarke started playing with Friernhay and then joined Southern Railway before signing professional forms with Third Division South Exeter City in the 1927-28 season. He gave them a decade of service and played three hundred and fifteen League games in which he scored eighteen goals, four of which came from penalty kicks. He scored another one goal in twenty-three F.A. Cup appearances. He moved to another Third Division team, Aldershot, for the 1937-38 season and was there for two years scoring three times in sixty-two League appearances and playing another four F.A. Cup ties before the Second World War brought an end to Football League fixtures and effectively ended Clarke’s career as a professional footballer. He did play one guest game for Leeds United at Inside Left, having played the whole of his career as a Wing Half, in the penultimate game in the 1941-42 Football League Northern Section (Second Championship) in a 1-0 win at Elland Road over Chesterfield. He also played one game for Aldershot in the 1939-40 season and twenty games, scoring once, for Torquay United in the same season as well as making two appearances and scoring once for Clapton Orient in 1943-44.