Edwin Raymond Bowden was an English footballer who played as an inside forward.
10 Facts About Ray Bowden
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Ray Bowden scored 130 goals from 316 appearances in the Football League, playing for Plymouth Argyle, Arsenal and Newcastle United.
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Ray Bowden was capped six times and scored once for England.
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Ray Bowden began his football career with the local non-league club, Looe FC, for whom he scored more than 100 goals in a single season, including 10 in one match.
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Ray Bowden was spotted by Plymouth Argyle, signed amateur forms with them in 1926, and turned professional the following year.
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Still only 17 years old and of apparently frail physique, Ray Bowden made his senior debut in March 1927.
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Ray Bowden won his first cap for England that season, against Wales on 29 September 1934.
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Ray Bowden was a regular for Newcastle United for the next two years; the club narrowly escaped relegation in his first season.
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When first-class football was suspended on the outbreak of the Second World War, the 30-year-old Ray Bowden decided to retire.
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Ray Bowden died in 1998, aged 89, by which time he was the last surviving player of the great interwar Arsenal side.