fullname years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals position birth_date article_title name
john coxford -- -- 1934 1934 1934 -- 193 ? -- 1924 -- 1927 1927 -- 1930 1930 1978 1901 bury st edmunds , england north boscombe athletic poole town northfleet united seaton colliery stakeford united sunderland birmingham bournemouth & north seaton , ashington , england 11 16 134 2 0 0 3 0 centre half 25 july 1901 jack coxford
 jack coxford
jack coxford

john coxford -lrb- 25 july 1901 -- 1978 -rrb- was an english professional footballer who played in the football league for small heath .
he played as a centre half .
coxford was born in north seaton , ashington , northumberland .
he played for north seaton colliery and stakeford united before joining sunderland in 1924 .
he made his debut in the first division on 18 april 1925 , in a 1 -- 1 draw at blackburn rovers , but never established himself as a first-team player , and in april 1927 , after only 11 games for sunderland , coxford joined fellow first division club birmingham .
he was signed as cover for george morrall , but the developing tom fillingham pushed coxford down the pecking order , and after three years with the club in which he played only 16 games , he left for bournemouth & boscombe athletic of the third division south .
at bournemouth , coxford had four seasons of regular first-team football .
towards the end of the 1933 -- 34 season , he played two games for nearby poole town before moving on to northfleet united as player-coach .
northfleet united acted as a nursery club for tottenham hotspur .
wales and tottenham player ron burgess described in his autobiography how coxford went on to join the training staff at tottenham , working under cecil poynton , with particular responsibility for the reserve team .
coxford died in bury st edmunds , suffolk , in 1978 aged about 77 .
