*Indicates unconfirmed information. Figures in brackets after English team names indicate all appearances made and goals scored in competitive matches for Football League clubs from 1888 onwards. For Scottish League clubs the figures show details of all competitive appearances and goals scored from 1946/47 onwards.
Lew Woodroffe
Appearances: 14 Goals: 2
Date / Year of birth: 29th October 1921
Position: Winger
Season of first appearance: 1953/54
Season of last appearance: 1953/54
Also played for: Manchester City (9,1), Clapton Orient (0), Watford (64,6) Hastings United and Canterbury City
Fast left winger born in Portsmouth who started his career with Manchester City but didn't feature in their first team before the outbreak of World War II.
Lew featured twice as a guest player for Clapton Orient during the 1941/42 wartime season and when hostilities ceased he broke into Manchester City's senior side early in the 1946/47 campaign.
Lew made his City debut in a 3-1 win at Millwall in Division 2 on 14.9.46 watched by a crowd of 24,182 and his team-mates that day included famous goalkeeper Frank Swift. Lew went on to make a total of nine first team appearances for City and scored once before leaving Maine Road at the end of the 1946/47 season.
In August 1947 he signed for Watford and Lew made his debut for the Hornets in a 3-2 home defeat against Brighton in Division 3 (South) on 23.8.47. He went on to make a total of 64 senior appearances for Watford and scored six times before being released by the club at the end of the 1950/51 campaign.
Lew then dropped into non-league football to join Hastings and he later had a spell with Canterbury before joining Margate in August 1953.
During the 1953/54 season Lew played 14 times and scored twice, one of his goals came on his debut - a 5-2 win at Bexleyheath & Welling on 31.10.53. He was a regular for several months but also spent a large portion of the campaign in the reserves.
Lew also spent the 1954/55 season playing exclusively for Margate's reserves, although not on a regular basis.
He left the club in March 1955 to take up a job with the Post Office in London.
In November 2013 Lew was living in Ferring, West Sussex aged 92.
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SEASON (CLUB) |
FULL (MAX) |
SUB |
GLS |
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FAC |
KSC |
KLC |
KSS |
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1953/54 (MFC) |
14 (40) |
N/A |
2 |
KENT LEAGUE DIVISION ONE (2ND OF 16) |
2QR |
1R |
W |
1R |
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