Edwin James Towers was an English professional footballer, best remembered for his time as a centre forward in the Football League with Brentford.
17 Facts About Jim Towers
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Jim Towers is the club's all-time leading goalscorer and in 2013 was voted the club's greatest ever player.
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Jim Towers frequently played against another boy, the Acton Odeon cinema team's George Francis, with whom Towers' future professional career would be intertwined.
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Jim Towers had a try-out at Fulham before signing for the junior team at Second Division club Brentford in 1948, after being spotted by manager Alf Bew while playing for his local Shepherd's Bush schoolboys team versus Brentford in Boston Manor Park.
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Jim Towers was offered a professional contract in 1951, prior to departing to undertake his National Service.
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In 2005, Jim Towers revealed that he was "almost begged" to leave Brentford.
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Jim Towers is the club's all-time top scorer with 163 goals in 282 games.
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Jim Towers was posthumously inducted into the Brentford Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Jim Towers fired in 16 goals in 32 appearances to help Rangers to a fourth-place finish and departed the club in August 1962.
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Jim Towers scored eight goals in his opening 21 games, but departed in January 1963.
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Jim Towers dropped down to the Fourth Division to reunite with George Francis at Gillingham in January 1963.
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Jim Towers showed good form, but had an agonising end to the season after the Gills missed out on promotion with a fifth-place finish.
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Jim Towers dropped into non-League football and signed for Southern League Premier Division club Romford during the 1964 off-season.
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Jim Towers spent three seasons with the club and scored 46 goals in 77 appearances.
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Jim Towers undertook his National Service alongside George Francis in Germany with the Royal Irish Fusiliers and he represented the British Army of the Rhine team.
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Jim Towers was married to Betty, had three children and after his retirement from football, he worked for 25 years as a baggage handler for British Airways at London Heathrow Airport.
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Jim Towers died in September 2010, after suffering with a serious illness.