![]() In 1945, Rooke had guested for Arsenal in a match against the touring Dynamo Moscow team. He also won a Wartime International cap for England in 1942, against Wales. ![]() However, Rooke's career did not stop, serving as a physical training instructor in the RAF, enabled him to continue playing, where he made 199 appearances in the wartime games for Fulham, scoring 212 goals. He had scored 57 goals in 87 league matches for Fulham before the outbreak of the second world war. He was the club's leading scorer for three consecutive seasons and contributed all six goals in a 6–0 FA Cup demolition of Bury, which is still (as of 2013 ) a club record. He then moved to Second Division club Fulham for a £300 fee in November 1936. He played mainly for the Palace reserve side, only playing eighteen league matches and scoring six goals between 19. In 1933, he joined Crystal Palace, who were at the time in the Third Division South. He then had a spell with Woking in 1932–33 during which he scored 29 goals from 16 appearances in all competitions. Rooke was born in Guildford, Surrey, and began his playing career with local club Guildford City. According to the RSSSF, he is the best league goalscorer of all time, and the third overall behind Erwin Helmchen and Josef Bican. During his three decades' playing career, he scored at least 931 goals in 1029 official matches, among which more than 765 league goals at all levels. Ronald Leslie Rooke (7 December 1911 – 9 June 1985) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward. ![]() *Club domestic league appearances and goals
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