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English footballer

Tom Griffiths
Personal information
Full name Thomas Griffiths
Date of birth 27 October 1888
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Left half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Liverpool Telegraph Messengers
Clitheroe Central
0000–1910 Blackburn Rovers 0 (0)
1910–1912 Exeter City 22 (2)
1912–1914 Clapton Orient 12 (0)
1914 Llanelly
0000–1918 Clapton Orient
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Griffiths was an English professional footballer who played in the Southern League for Exeter City as a left half. He also played in the Football League for Clapton Orient.

Personal life

Griffiths served as a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War.

Honours

Blackburn Rovers Reserves

References

  1. ^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 (Third edition, with revisions ed.). Toton, Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 119. ISBN 9781905891610. OCLC 841581272.
  2. "The coming of the big ball: the Second Division: Clapton Orient". Athletic News. Manchester. 18 August 1913. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Our Her-O's: Part two of Orient's WW1 Heroes". www.leytonorient.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  4. "Remembering Spencer Bassett". www.exetercityfc.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
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