fullname years death_date clubs caps birth_place goals height totalcaps position birth_date totalgoals article_title name
william charles roost ???? 1960 -- 1963 -- 1948 1948 -- 1957 1957 -- 1959 10 february 2013 stonehouse bristol rovers swindon town minehead 177 18 bristol , england 49 3 5 9 195 inside forward 22 march 1924 52 bill roost
 bill roost
bill roost

william charles ` bill ' roost -lrb- 22 march 1924 - 10 february 2013 -rrb- was a professional footballer who played as an inside forward in the football league for bristol rovers and swindon town .
roost 's footballing career had a late start , due to the second world war , eventually making his league debut in 1948 at the age of 24 .
he previously played for stonehouse in gloucestershire where he was spotted by a bristol rovers scout , and he joined rovers initially as an amateur on 10 september .
he was awarded his first professional contract after less than two weeks in bristol , signing on 23 september .
after making 177 league appearances for rovers and scoring 49 goals he moved to swindon town in 1957 , but he played just eighteen league games for them in two years and scored only three goals , all coming in a single game against shrewsbury town in december 1957 .
after an unsuccessful trial with yeovil town in 1959 he joined non-league side minehead in january 1960 for whom he played 90 times in all competitions and scored 21 times before retiring in 1963 .
following his retirement from football he worked as a foreman in a scaffolding yard , and lived in the whitehall area of bristol .
