Thomas Eyre (footballer)

Thomas Eyre
Personal information
Full name Thomas Eyre[1][upper-alpha 1]
Playing position Left back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
– Ashfield
1895–1898 Lincoln City 65 (1)
– Hamilton Academical

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Thomas Eyre[upper-alpha 1] (fl. 1890s) was a footballer who made 65 appearances in the Football League playing for Lincoln City. He played at left back. Either side of Lincoln, he played for Ashfield and Hamilton Academical in Scotland.[2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 The Lincoln City FC Archive[1] and Michael Joyce's Football League Players' Records[2] give the player's surname as Eyre. However, contemporary newspapers, including the Liverpool Mercury (1895 and 1897),[3][4] the Nottinghamshire Guardian (1896),[5] the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (1896),[6] and the Manchester Guardian (1897),[7] frequently, but not exclusively, refer to him as Eyres.

References

  1. 1 2 "Thomas Eyre". The Lincoln City FC Archive. Lincoln City F.C. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  2. 1 2 Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  3. ↑ "The League. Division II. Liverpool v. Lincoln City". Liverpool Mercury. 23 December 1895. p. 7.
  4. ↑ "The League. Division II. Lincoln City v. Newton Heath". Liverpool Mercury. 8 November 1897. p. 9.
  5. ↑ "Lincoln City Football Club". The Nottinghamshire Guardian. 2 May 1896. p. 3.
  6. ↑ "The League. Division II. Lincoln City v. Sheffield United". The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent. 3 September 1896. p. 8.
  7. ↑ "Second Division. Lincoln City v. Darwen". The Manchester Guardian. 18 January 1897. p. 3.
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