Today it is the turn of debuts made in the 1940s/1950s:

1946/47

260 Harry Bamford 31/08/46 Reading (H)

261 Lance Carr 31/08/46 Reading (H)

262 Victor Lambden 31/08/46 Reading (H)

263 Idris Lewis 31/08/46 Reading (H)

264 John Pitt 31/08/46 Reading (H)

265 Barry Watkins 31/08/46 Reading (H)

266 John Weare 31/08/46 Reading (H)

267 Leonard Hodges 14/09/46 Torquay United (H)

268 Douglas Baldie 28/09/46 Bristol City (H)

269 George Peacock 05/10/46 Southend United (H)

270 George Petherbridge 05/10/46 Southend United (H)

271 Henry Liley 12/10/46 Queens Park Rangers (A)

272 Herbert Winter-Alsop 12/10/46 Queens Park Rangers (A)

273 Douglas Hayward 02/11/46 Cardiff City (A)

274 James Allaway 09/11/46 Norwich City (H)

275 Albert Giles 16/11/46 Notts County (A)

276 Henry Smith 16/11/46 Notts County (A)

277 James Morgan 23/11/46 Northampton Town (H)

278 John Cook 07/12/46 Brighton & Hove Albion (H)

279 Frederick Leamon 07/12/46 Brighton & Hove Albion (H)

280 Wynffred Morgan 07/12/46 Brighton & Hove Albion (H)

281 Charles Windle 21/12/46 Port Vale (H)

282 Clifford Baker 28/12/46 Reading (A)

283 Kenneth Wookey 28/12/46 Reading (A)

1947/48

284 Harold Cranfield 23/08/47 Port Vale (A)

285 Frederick Chadwick 13/09/47 Brighton & Hove Albion (H)

286 Geoffrey Fox 27/09/47 Bristol City (H)

287 Ralph Jones 06/12/47 Bournemouth (A)

288 John Watling 14/02/48 Bristol City (H)

289 Bryan Bush 28/04/48 Ipswich Town (H)

1948/49

290 Peter Sampson 21/08/48 Ipswich Town (H)

291 Frederick Laing 28/08/48 Notts County (A)

292 Harold Haddon 12/03/49 Leyton Orient (A)

293 William Roost 15/04/49 Reading (H)

1949/50

294 Francis McCourt 03/09/49 Southend United (A)

295 Anthony James 05/09/49 Reading (H)

296 Geoffrey Bradford 24/09/49 Crystal Palace (A)

297 Edward Parsons 10/04/50 Exeter City (H)

298 Michael Tippett 10/04/50 Exeter City (H)

299 Maurice Lockier 01/05/50 Northampton Town (H)

1950/51

300 Herbert Hoyle 19/08/50 Swindon Town (H)

301 William Murphy 28/08/50 Aldershot (H)

302 Barrie Meyer 07/10/50 Bournemouth (H)

303 Leslie Edwards 15/02/51 Walsall (A)

1951/52

304 Leonard Pickard 25/08/51 Shrewsbury Town (H)

305 Howard Radford 27/10/51 Southend United (A)

306 Andrew Micklewright 16/02/52 Northampton Town (A)

307 Geoffrey Taylor 22/03/52 Bournemouth (A)

308 Kenneth Powell 11/04/52 Colchester United (A)

309 Stanley Green 19/04/52 Torquay United (A)

1952/53

310 Patrick Leonard 23/08/52 Shrewsbury Town (H)

311 John McIlvenny 23/08/52 Shrewsbury Town (H)

312 Desmond Jones 27/08/52 Torquay United (A)

313 Robert Anderson 11/04/53 Watford (H)

Rovers title winning side of 1953

1953/54

314 Charles Cairney 05/09/53 Brentford (A)

315 Michael Lyons 14/11/53 Swansea Town (H)

316 Denzil Hale 28/11/53 Leicester City (H)

317 Alfred Biggs 06/02/54 Lincoln City (A)

318 Peter Wilshire 27/02/54 Leeds United (H)

319 Peter Hooper 27/03/54 Rotherham United (H)

320 Ian Muir 12/04/54 Hull City (A)

3201Raymond Chandler 16/04/54 Oldham Athletic (H)

322 Frank Allcock 19/04/54 Oldham Athletic (A)

1954/55

323 James Anderson 15/09/54 Liverpool (A)

324 David Ward 16/04/55 Nottingham Forest (H)

1955/56

325 Ronald Nicholls 31/12/55 Sheffield Wednesday (H)

326 Raymond Seatherton 11/02/56 Lincoln City (H)

1956/57

327 David Lawrence 08/09/56 Middlesbrough (A)

328 Norman Sykes 26/12/56 Bury (H)

329 Cecil Steeds 19/01/57 Leicester City (A)

330 Graham Ricketts 09/02/57 Notts County (H)

331 David Pyle 09/03/57 Rotherham United (H)

1957/58

332 Raymond Mabbutt 04/09/59 Derby County (A)

333 Robert Jones 02/11/57 Middlesbrough (H)

334 Brian Doyle 11/01/58 Sheffield United (H)

1958/59

335 Harvey Sinclair 03/09/58 Derby County (A)

336 Ian Hamilton 06/12/58 Charlton Athletic (A)

337 Douglas Hillard 13/12/58 Sheffield United (H)

338 Malcolm Norman 20/12/58 Leyton Orient (H)

339 Granville Smith 31/01/59 Fulham (A)

340 John Frowen 14/02/59 Sunderland (A)

341 Leonard Drake 21/02/59 Stoke City (H)

342 John Timmins 27/03/59 Swansea Town (A)

343 Anthony Gough 30/04/59 Sheffield Wednesday (H)

1959/60

344 Anthony Edge 31/10/59 Cardiff City (H)

345 Harold Jarman 26/12/59 Swansea Town (H)