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season, top-scoring with 18 goals and netting a total of 86 goals in 167 games for the Bees. He returned to
Sheffield after leaving the army and played five games for Wednesday in the wartime league of 1945–46. He was put on the transfer list in February 1946 and accepted the post of player-coach at
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had one of his finest games for the club and created five of the six goals that Doug Hunt scored. Thirdly, Norwich's centre half Peter Burke was injured after 15 minutes and was a "passenger" for the rest of the game on the left wing. With no substitutes allowed, this left the
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and played in all the remaining 12 league games that season, scoring six goals as he provided a remedy for
Wednesday's problem centre forward position which had been bothering them all season. He also took over from
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and then Johnny
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Hunt missed an easy chance in
Wednesday's first attack but within two minutes of Burke's injury he had put Wednesday one up. After 25 minutes he scored a second when he beat Norwich's
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