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Key facts
- 1939
- Sligo Rovers
- 1940
- Hurst
- Full name
- William Ralph Dean
- Date of birth
- ( 1907-01-22 ) 22 January 1907
- Place of birth
- Birkenhead , England
- Date of death
- 1 March 1980 (1980-03-01) (aged 73)
- Place of death
- Goodison Park , Liverpool , England
- Height
- 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
- Position
- Centre forward
- Years
- Team
- 1923 1925
- Tranmere Rovers
- 1925 1937
- Everton
- 1938 1939
- Notts County
- 1927 1932
- England
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ralph
- Family name
- Dean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Birkenhead
- Place of death
- Liverpool
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- England men's national association football team
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- England
- Image
- Dixie Dean (1931).jpg
- Height
- 178
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- Commons category
- Dixie Dean
- date of birth
- 1907-01-22
- date of death
- 1980-03-01
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- pseudonym
- Dixie Dean, The Great One
- name in native language
- Dixie Dean
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Encyclopedic overview
William Ralph "Dixie" Dean (22 January 1907 – 1 March 1980) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward. Dean holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season in top-flight English football, with 60. He is regarded as one of the greatest centre forwards of his time and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
Born in Birkenhead, he began his career at his hometown club Tranmere Rovers, before moving on to Everton, the club he had supported as a child. A prolific goalscorer, he was particularly known for having a penchant for scoring goals with his head, courtesy of his elevation and athleticism, as well as his powerful and accurate heading ability, which has led pundits to describe him as one of the greatest aerial specialists of all time. Dean played the majority of his career at Everton, before injuries caught up with him and he moved on to new challenges at Notts County, and eventually Sligo Rovers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dixie Dean” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.