Tom Nixon | |
Fullname: | Thomas Nixon |
Birth Date: | 25 March 1931 |
Birth Place: | Backworth, England |
Death Place: | North Tyneside, England |
Position: | Wing half |
Years1: | 1950 |
Caps1: | 0 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Years2: | 1951–1952 |
Clubs2: | Darlington |
Caps2: | 1 |
Goals2: | 0 |
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.[1]
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.[2]
He was born in Backworth, Northumberland, in 1931 and died in North Tyneside in 2003 at the age of 72.