Tom Nixon (footballer, born 1931)

Tom Nixon
Personal information
Full name Thomas Nixon[1]
Date of birth (1931-03-25)25 March 1931[1]
Place of birth Backworth, England
Date of death November 2003 (2003-12) (aged 72)[1]
Place of death North Tyneside, England
Position(s) Wing half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1950 Newcastle United 0 (0)
1951–1952 Darlington 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Nixon (25 May 1931 – November 2003) is an English former amateur footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Darlington. He was on the books of Newcastle United without playing for their first team.[2]

Nixon came into the Darlington side at left half as one of several team changes for the visit to Halifax Town in the Third Division North on 1 December 1951. They lost 4–1, and that was his only senior appearance.[3]

He was born in Backworth, Northumberland, in 1931 and died in North Tyneside in 2003 at the age of 72.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Tom Nixon". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  3. ^ Tweddle, Frank (2000). The Definitive Darlington F.C. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-899468-15-7.


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