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English footballer

Tom Nixon
Personal information
Full name Thomas Nixon
Date of birth (1931-03-25)25 March 1931
Place of birth Backworth, England
Date of death November 2003 (2003-12) (aged 72)
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.

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.

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

References

  1. ^ "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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