fullname youthclubs years death_date clubs caps birth_place goals position birth_date article_title name
john henry summers fulham 1950 -- 1954 1954 -- 1956 1956 -- 1961 2 june 1962 fulham norwich city millwall charlton athletic 4 71 91 171 hammersmith , england 0 33 41 100 forward 10 september 1927 johnny summers -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 johnny summers
johnny summers -lrb- footballer -rrb-

johnny summers -lrb- 10 september 1927 -- 2 june 1962 -rrb- was a football striker who scored 104 goals for charlton athletic .
summers engineered one of the most remarkable comebacks in football history ; charlton were 5-1 down against huddersfield with half an hour to go with only 10 men ; they won 7-6 in the second division at the valley , 21 december 1957 .
johnny scored five goals , set up two and scored a six-minute hat-trick .
summers later revealed that he changed his boots at half-time after his old pair had started falling apart .
johnny summers played for norwich city , fulham and millwall , prior to his charlton career .
he made his debut for millwall in 1955 in the opening match of the 1955-56 season , against brighton and hove albion , in front of a 25,000 plus crowd at the den .
in a 2-0 win , he disappointed the fickle crowd and after a few weeks disappeared into the reserves , surfacing again the following january , as a left winger .
from that time , he never looked back , and was one of the most fearsome and lethal forwards seen at the den in years .
his transfer to charlton athletic , for their last season in the old first division , was regretted by millwall fans , but seen as inevitable .
he died at the age of just 34 in 1962 of cancer .
