Cyril Trigg

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Cyril Trigg
Personal information
Date of birth	8 April 1917(1917-04-08)
Place of birth	Measham, England
Date of death	9 April 1993 (aged 76)
Place of death	Birmingham, England
Playing position	Fullback / Centre-forward
Youth clubs
1935	Binley Welfare Bedworth Town Birmingham
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1935–1954 1954–1957	Birmingham City Stourbridge	268 0(67)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Cyril Trigg (8 April 1917 – 9 April 1993) was an English professional footballer who played initially as a fullback and later in his career as a centre-forward. He made 268 appearances in the Football League.

Trigg was born in Measham, Leicestershire. He spent the whole of his League career – nineteen years – at Birmingham City for whom he made 291 appearances and scored 72 goals in all competitions. The Second World War started when he was 22 years old, so his career was severely disrupted by the conflict, in which he served in the Royal Air Force in India and Burma. He was twice Birmingham's leading scorer, firstly in the 1946–47 season, despite playing a third of his matches at right-back, and again in the 1950–51 season, by which time he was exclusively a centre-forward.

He moved to Stourbridge F.C. in 1954 as player-coach, and retired in 1957. He died in Birmingham aged 76.

[edit] Honours

with Birmingham City

• Football League Second Division champions: 1947–48

[edit] References

Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Breedon Books. ISBN 1-85983-010-2. 

Persondata
NAME	Trigg, Cyril
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	1917-04-08
PLACE OF BIRTH	Measham, Leicestershire, England
DATE OF DEATH	1993-04-09
PLACE OF DEATH	Birmingham, England