Wilf Nixon
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Wilfred Nixon[1] | ||
Date of birth | 22 October 1882 | ||
Place of birth | Workington, England[2] | ||
Date of death | 8 April 1985[3] | (aged 102)||
Place of death | Gateshead, England[3] | ||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[4] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1902–1903 | Newcastle United | 0 | (0) |
Hexham | |||
Carlisle United | |||
Wallsend Park Villa | |||
Haltwhistle Black Diamond | |||
Newburn | |||
1912–1920 | Fulham | 27 | (0) |
1915–1916 | → Queens Park Rangers (guest) | 11 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Wilfred Nixon (22 October 1882 – 8 April 1985) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Fulham as a goalkeeper.[1][5][6]
Personal life
[edit]Nixon served as a private in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War.[7] He was captured by the Germans in Oppy on 28 April 1917 and was then interned as a prisoner of war.[2][8] Nixon died at home in Gateshead on 8 April 1985, at the age of 102.[9]
Career statistics
[edit]Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Total | ||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Fulham | 1914–15[10] | Second Division | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
Career total | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 218. ISBN 978-1905891610.
- ^ a b Wilf Nixon on Lives of the First World War
- ^ a b "Wilfred Nixon death notice". Gateshead Post. 18 April 1985. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "The coming of the big ball: the Second Division: Fulham". Athletic News. Manchester. 18 August 1913. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Seasonal Stats – Files – 1915–16". QPRnet. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ "Newcastle United Footballers in the Great War". North East War Memorials Project. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- ^ "Wilfred Nixon | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ "The Story of the Footballers' Battalions in the First World War". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^ White, Alex (1 August 2012). The Fulham FC Miscellany. The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-9057-1.
- ^ "Fulham Squad 1914/15". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 8 October 2017.