He scored 39 goals in 84 appearances in the Football League playing for Torquay United, Birmingham and Blackburn Rovers.
[2] Clarke was born in Sheffield, and began his football career with Mexborough Town and Frickley Colliery.
[3] Together with Frickley teammate Melvyn Millington, he turned professional with Torquay United of the Third Division South after a successful trial.
He averaged a goal every other game for Blackburn, helping them to the Second Division title, before the Football League was suspended on the outbreak of the Second World War.
[5] He died in 1944 on active service in France with the 12th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, part of the 6th Airlanding Brigade of the 6th Airborne Division.