He finished as the club's top-scorer eight times in nine seasons from 1920–21 to 1927–28, helping the Saints to win the Third Division South title in 1921–22 and to reach the FA Cup semi-finals in 1925 and 1927.
[3] He was the second of four children to William and Jane (née Barlow); his father was a domestic coachman and later ran The Elephant Inn in Andover.
[4] Rawlings' career started in 1918 with an apprenticeship at Southampton, having impressed playing against their reserve team for his regiment two years previously.
[1] He appeared against Wales and Scotland in the 1922 British Home Championship,[5] achieving the rare distinction of being capped for England while playing for a third-tier club.
He also helped the club to reach the FA Cup semi-finals in 1927 and scored in what was a 2–1 defeat to Arsenal at Stamford Bridge.
His 193 goals place him third on the club's list of all-time goalscorers, behind Mick Channon and Matthew Le Tissier.
[2] He hit a hat-trick on 7 April, in a 4–3 home win over Burnley, and finished the 1927–28 season with ten goals for the Red Devils.
[1] He played a further five games before suffering a serious ankle injury on Christmas Day 1929, during a 2–1 home defeat by Stockport County.
[1] Later, in 1930, he moved to Isle of Wight and played for Newport, where he was reunited with Dominy, winning the Hampshire Senior Cup in 1932.