Arthur Stevens was an English football player who scored 110 goals from 386 games in the Football League playing as an outside right for Fulham.
Background
Stevens was born in Wandsworth, London, and played for Wimbledon before the Second World War and for Brentford and Sutton United in its early years, before joining Fulham as an amateur in 1941 and signing professional forms two years later.
Career
He represented England it seems in some wartime exhibition games. After playing his last game in the 1958-1959 season, he remained with the club as a coach, and acted as caretaker manager for five weeks from mid-December 1964 to Vic Buckingham"s appointment in January 1965, when Stevens left the club During the war he served in the artillery, including at the Doctorate-Day landings.
He was a part of a group giving machine-gun support to the company led by Fulham"s Major Jim Tompkins in the action in which Tompkins was killed.