Benjamin Cummings Anderson (born 18 February 1946) is a Scottish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

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. He played in

the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in the world, and was the top-level football league in England from ...

for

Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the , the second level of the English football league system. They have played home matches at Ewood Park since 1890. Th ...

, Bury and

Crystal Palace Crystal Palace may refer to: Places Canada * Crystal Palace Complex (Dieppe), a former amusement park now a shopping complex in Dieppe, New Brunswick * Crystal Palace Barracks, London, Ontario * Crystal Palace (Montreal), an exhibition buildin ...

, and had two spells with

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in South Africa's

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Honours

Cape Town City * UTC Bowl: 1971, 1973South Africa Football Life Bowl 1973 - Winner Cape Town City
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* 1946 births Living people Scottish men's footballers Footballers from Aberdeen Blackburn Rovers F.C. players Crystal Palace F.C. players Bury F.C. players English Football League players Men's association football central defenders Cape Town City F.C. (1960) players Scottish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa Scottish expatriate sportspeople in South Africa National Football League (South Africa) players 20th-century Scottish sportsmen {{Scotland-footy-defender-1940s-stub