Personal information | |||
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Full name | James McGiffen [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 30 January 1904||
Place of birth | South Bank, [1] England | ||
Date of death | 3 August 1929[2] | (aged 25)||
Place of death | Stockton-on-Tees, [2] England | ||
Position(s) | Outside left | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
19??–1927 | Stockton | ||
1927–1929 | Darlington | 23 | (4) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James McGiffen (30 January 1904 – 3 August 1929) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left in the Football League for Darlington. He also played non-league football as an amateur for Stockton. [1]
McGiffen, the third child of John McGiffen, an iron worker, and his wife Alice, was born in 1904 in South Bank, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and raised in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. [3]
By 1924, he was playing football for his hometown club, the amateur club Stockton F.C.; he scored in a 9–4 defeat to Ferryhill Athletic on the last day of the 1923–24 Northern League season. [4] The Daily Express preview of Stockton's Amateur Cup tie against London Caledonians in 1926 described the youthful McGiffen as "very fast and tricky, with a penchant for goals". [5] He helped Stockton win the Northern League Challenge Cup in 1926–27, before leaving the club at the end of the season to turn professional with Third Division North club Darlington. [6]
McGiffen scored in Darlington's 9–3 win against Lincoln City in January 1928, [7] and according to the Burnley Express, he was the pick of their forwards as he scored twice in a 4–2 defeat of Nelson in April. [8] By the end of his second season with the club, McGiffen had made 23 League appearances and scored four times. [1] He was included on Darlington's retained list, and was reported to have signed on again for the coming season. [9]
At the end of July, he underwent a mastoid operation in Stockton Hospital; he died there three days later, on 3 August, at the age of 25. [2]
James McGiffen, who played outside left as a professional for Darlington and who formerly assisted Stockton as an amateur, died in Stockton Hospital this morning following an operation last Wednesday for mastoid. He resided at Thornaby-on-Tees.
In 1926/27 Stockton added a new trophy to their list of honours by claiming the Northern League Challenge Cup when, at the fourth attempt, they defeated Bishop Auckland after a series of three drawn games. ... At the end of the campaign outside left James McGiffen left the club to join Darlington where he became a regular member of their side until his untimely death in 1929 at the age of 25.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | James McGiffen [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 30 January 1904||
Place of birth | South Bank, [1] England | ||
Date of death | 3 August 1929[2] | (aged 25)||
Place of death | Stockton-on-Tees, [2] England | ||
Position(s) | Outside left | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
19??–1927 | Stockton | ||
1927–1929 | Darlington | 23 | (4) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James McGiffen (30 January 1904 – 3 August 1929) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left in the Football League for Darlington. He also played non-league football as an amateur for Stockton. [1]
McGiffen, the third child of John McGiffen, an iron worker, and his wife Alice, was born in 1904 in South Bank, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and raised in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. [3]
By 1924, he was playing football for his hometown club, the amateur club Stockton F.C.; he scored in a 9–4 defeat to Ferryhill Athletic on the last day of the 1923–24 Northern League season. [4] The Daily Express preview of Stockton's Amateur Cup tie against London Caledonians in 1926 described the youthful McGiffen as "very fast and tricky, with a penchant for goals". [5] He helped Stockton win the Northern League Challenge Cup in 1926–27, before leaving the club at the end of the season to turn professional with Third Division North club Darlington. [6]
McGiffen scored in Darlington's 9–3 win against Lincoln City in January 1928, [7] and according to the Burnley Express, he was the pick of their forwards as he scored twice in a 4–2 defeat of Nelson in April. [8] By the end of his second season with the club, McGiffen had made 23 League appearances and scored four times. [1] He was included on Darlington's retained list, and was reported to have signed on again for the coming season. [9]
At the end of July, he underwent a mastoid operation in Stockton Hospital; he died there three days later, on 3 August, at the age of 25. [2]
James McGiffen, who played outside left as a professional for Darlington and who formerly assisted Stockton as an amateur, died in Stockton Hospital this morning following an operation last Wednesday for mastoid. He resided at Thornaby-on-Tees.
In 1926/27 Stockton added a new trophy to their list of honours by claiming the Northern League Challenge Cup when, at the fourth attempt, they defeated Bishop Auckland after a series of three drawn games. ... At the end of the campaign outside left James McGiffen left the club to join Darlington where he became a regular member of their side until his untimely death in 1929 at the age of 25.