caption fullname years death_date death_place youthyears birth_place clubs caps goals position image article_title name
kearns at an unknown date peter vincent kearns -- -- 1968 1968 -- 1969 1969 -- 1971 1956 -- 1959 196 ? -- 1962 1962 6 july 2014 weymouth , dorset , england -- aldershot , hampshire , england plymouth argyle corby town aldershot lincoln city weymouth ? 65 ? 185 46 ? ? 8 ? 65 11 ? inside forward peter kearns.jpg peter kearns
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peter kearns

peter vincent kearns -lrb- 26 march 1937 -- 6 july 2014 -rrb- was an english footballer who scored 83 goals from 296 appearances in the football league playing for plymouth argyle , aldershot and lincoln city .
he played as an inside forward .
he also played non-league football for wellingborough town and corby town , and finished his career with two seasons in the southern league with weymouth , where he was a director in the 1990s .
kearns had been receiving treatment for dementia in the early 2010s and in support of his cause , his granddaughter , hollie kearns -lrb- aged 19 at the time -rrb- participated in a sky dive on saturday 2nd november 2013 to raise funds to find a cure .
overall she raised # 700 .
kearns died in a weymouth , dorset , care home on 6 july 2014 at the age of 77 .
although not fully verified , there have been a number of reports suggesting kearns is a relative of the footballing brothers mick kearns and ollie kearns , both originating from banbury .
further , peter and ollie played very similar positions at the goalscoring end of the field and there playing styles have been noted as being reminiscent of each others , an aggressive and attacking style of play .
