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Wilf Nixon
Personal information
Full name Wilfred Nixon[1]
Date of birth (1882-10-22)22 October 1882
Place of birth Workington, England[2]
Date of death 8 April 1985(1985-04-08) (aged 102)[3]
Place of death Gateshead, England[3]
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[4]
Position 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

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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

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup Total
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

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  1. 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 218. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  2. 1 2 Wilf Nixon on Lives of the First World War
  3. 1 2 "Wilfred Nixon death notice". Gateshead Post. 18 April 1985. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  4. ↑ "The coming of the big ball: the Second Division: Fulham". Athletic News. Manchester. 18 August 1913. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Seasonal Stats – Files – 1915–16". QPRnet. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Newcastle United Footballers in the Great War". North East War Memorials Project. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "Wilfred Nixon | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "The Story of the Footballers' Battalions in the First World War". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  9. ↑ White, Alex (1 August 2012). The Fulham FC Miscellany. The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-9057-1.
  10. ↑ "Fulham Squad 1914/15". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
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