Edwin Raymond Bowden (13 September 1909 – 23 September 1998) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward. He scored 130 goals from 316 appearances in the Football League, playing for Plymouth Argyle, Arsenal and Newcastle United. He was capped six times and scored once for England. Life and career Bowden was born in Looe, Cornwall, and worked as a solicitor's clerk after he left school. He began his football career with the local non-league club, Looe F.C., for whom he scored more than 100 goals in a single season, including 10 in one match. He was spotted by Plymouth Argyle, signed amateur forms with them in 1926, and turned professional the following year. Still only 17 years old and of apparently frail physique, Bowden made his senior debut in March 1927. After two appearances the following season produced four goals, he took over the centre-forward position at the start of the 1928–29 season and went on to score 20 goals from 29 Third Division South matches. In 1929–30, his 18 goals from 28 league matches helped Argyle gain promotion to the Second Division as champions. In 1931, he was a member of the Football Association touring party that made a 17-match visit to Canada. On his return, he top-scored for Argyle for the second timethe first was in 1928–29and by the time he left the club, he had taken his totals to 82 goals from 145 league matches. Bowden signed for Herbert Chapman's Arsenal in March 1933 for £4,500, as the intended replacement for David Jack. He scored in the first two of the seven First Division matches he played in what remained of that seasonnot enough for a league-winners' medalbut was a regular for the next two campaigns, as Arsenal won two more titles on the trot. Playing mainly as an inside forward, behind Ted Drake, he still scored his fair share despite his slight build in what was at the time a very physical game. His goalscoring included a haul of 13 in 1933–34, which made him Arsenal's top scorer in the league, jointly with Cliff Bastin, and 14 in 1934–35, which included a hat-trick in an 8–1 defeat of Liverpool. Bowden won his first cap for England that season, against Wales on 29 September 1934. Two months later, he was one of seven Arsenal players who played in England's 3–2 win against 1934 World