John Coxon (footballer)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | John Coxon[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 7 April 1922||
Place of birth | Whitley Bay, England | ||
Date of death | May 1998 | (aged 76)||
Place of death | North Tyneside, England | ||
Position(s) | Full back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Old Hartley | |||
19??–1948 | Darlington | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
John Coxon (7 April 1922 – May 1998) was an English amateur footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Darlington.[2]
Coxon was born in Whitley Bay, which was then in Northumberland. He played football for non-league club Old Hartley,[2] and by March 1946 had joined Darlington;[3] he appeared twice in the wartime third-tier competition.[4] He remained with the club until at least 1948,[5] but made only one appearance in the Third Division North, in the 1946–47 season.[2] He died in May 1998 in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "John Coxon". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ^ a b c "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
- ^ "Surprise goal for City's full-back". Lincolnshire Echo. 2 March 1946. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Rollin, Jack (2005). Soccer at War 1939–45. London: Headline. p. 325. ISBN 978-0-7553-1431-7.
- ^ "Hectic time for footballers. Major issues still to be settled". Northern Daily Mail. West Hartlepool. 25 March 1948. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Categories:
- 1922 births
- 1998 deaths
- People from Whitley Bay
- Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside
- Footballers from Tyne and Wear
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football fullbacks
- Darlington F.C. players
- English Football League players
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- English football defender, 1920s birth stubs