Personal information | |||
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Full name | John Coxon[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 7 April 1922||
Place of birth | Whitley Bay, England | ||
Date of death | May 1998 | (aged 76)||
Place of death | North Tyneside, England | ||
Position(s) | Full back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Old Hartley | |||
19??–1948 | Darlington | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
John Coxon (7 April 1922 – May 1998) was an English amateur footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Darlington.[2]
Coxon was born in Whitley Bay, which was then in Northumberland. He played football for non-league club Old Hartley,[2] and by March 1946 had joined Darlington;[3] he appeared twice in the wartime third-tier competition.[4] He remained with the club until at least 1948,[5] but made only one appearance in the Third Division North, in the 1946–47 season.[2] He died in May 1998 in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear.[1]