John Coxon | |
Fullname: | John Coxon |
Birth Date: | 7 April 1922 |
Birth Place: | Whitley Bay, England |
Death Place: | North Tyneside, England |
Position: | Full back |
Clubs1: | Old Hartley |
Years2: | 19??–1948 |
Caps2: | 1 |
Goals2: | 0 |
John Coxon (7 April 1922 – May 1998) was an English amateur footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Darlington.[1]
Coxon was born in Whitley Bay, which was then in Northumberland. He played football for non-league club Old Hartley,[1] and by March 1946 had joined Darlington;[2] he appeared twice in the wartime third-tier competition.[3] He remained with the club until at least 1948,[4] but made only one appearance in the Third Division North, in the 1946–47 season.[1] He died in May 1998 in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear.