Dickie Dowsett was a special member of the #afcb family.
He was a valuable player, a much-loved member of staff and the figure that is symbolised on our club crest 🍒
Rest in peace, Dickie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/hLkQFX3xPy
— AFC Bournemouth 🍒 (@afcbournemouth) April 21, 2020
Earlier this week the AFC Bournemouth community learned of the sad passing of former player Dickie Dowsett, who died on Sunday aged 88.
Dowsett made 184 appearances in all competitions, scoring 84 times, between 1957 and 1962.
He finished as top goalscorer in three successive seasons, with his tally of 79 goals in 169 league games making him the club’s sixth-highest all-time leading goalscorer.
Dowsett returned to Dean Court in June 1968 as a member of staff at the football. He became commercial manager and set up the Cherry Bees fund-raising scheme.
But it was in the early 1970s that Dowsett would become literally the face of AFC Bournemouth.
The football club changed the club’s name from Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic to AFC Bournemouth with a stylish and distinctive new club crest, a silhouette of Dickie heading a football.
The crest first appeared on the club’s programme, with the tagline “heading for the top” and it would soon be incorporated on the club shirt.
The club briefly flirted with a Cherries logo, but returned to the Dowsett header logo in 1983, with only minor alterations ever since, with the biggest coming in 2014 with a switch to black stripes to better incorporate the new AFC Bournemouth brand image.
Everyone at AFCB Vital sends our best wishes to Dickie’s wife Cynthia and all of his family and friends.
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MB51 wrote…
If his feet had matched his heading ability he would have been top class. Ended up working for the club’s fundraising team. In Bill McGarry’s squad in the early ’60s was one of the most feared strikers in the division. RIP indeed. – Join the conversation, click here.
