Wilf Nixon

Wilf Nixon
Personal information
Full name	Wilfred Nixon
Date of birth	22 October 1882
Place of birth	Workington, England
Date of death	8 April 1985 (aged 102)
Place of death	Gateshead, England
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team
1902–1903	Newcastle United
	Hexham
	Carlisle United
	Wallsend Park Villa
	Haltwhistle Black Diamond
	Newburn
1912–1920	Fulham
1915–1916	→ Queens Park Rangers (guest)
	*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]

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

^ ^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.

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