Well having trudged through 116 posts on this matter, without so much as an inkling or a serious suggestion of who this player is , I have come to the conclusion ....it just never happened!
Not really he died in 1971! But if you'd asked me that in 1950 I'd have been over the moon. He might also have been impressed, as to my knowledge no one else had ever asked him :)
I quite agree with the clubs community commitment. But with his kids being asked to get their dads autograph... no.
What kid wouldn't want their mates asking for their dads autograph. I'd have loved my school chums to have revered my dad, unfortunately he was only a gas fitter and it doesn't...