Ronnie Burke

Ronnie Burke
Personal information
Full name	Ronald Stewart Burke
Date of birth	13 August 1921
Place of birth	Dormanstown, Redcar, England
Date of death	December 2003 (aged 82)
Place of death	Watford, England
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	St Albans City
1941–1946	Luton Town
1946	Manchester United
Senior career*
Years	Team
1946–1949	Manchester United
1949–1953	Huddersfield Town
1953–1955	Rotherham United
1955–1957	Exeter City
1957–1959	Tunbridge Wells United
1959–1961	Biggleswade Town
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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Ronald Stewart Burke (13 August 1921 – December 2003) was a footballer who played for Manchester United, Huddersfield Town, Rotherham United & Exeter City.

Career

Rotherham United made several attempts to sign Ronnie Burke during the World War II years, but

Huddersfield Town

, but suffered a serious knee injury, and lost his place in the Terriers team.

Rotherham

He made his debut for Rotherham in Division 2 (now Championship), scoring two goals in a 4–3 defeat at Nottingham Forest on Good Friday 1953, and was unlucky not to get a hat-trick in his first Millers appearance.

In the next season he scored a hat-trick in the Millers 5–2 victory over Derby County on 5 December 1953, and repeated his achievement in a 7-0 thrashing of Oldham Athletic in March 1954. He finished the 1953/54 season with 33 goals, and was second highest goalscorer in Division 2.

In the 1954/55 season he scored all four Millers goals in a 4–2 victory against Bury in September 1954, but his knee injury problems flared up again and he was made available for transfer in summer 1955.

Later clubs

He then moved to

Exeter City. His career at Millmoor was very successful, but was cut short by injury. After this, he moved to non-League football, first in 1957 with Tunbridge Wells United then on to Biggleswade Town.^{[citation needed}

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References

Millmoor personalities 1946-1986, David Watson, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (1986)

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