Tom Jennings (footballer)

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Tom Jennings
Personal information
Full name Thomas Hamilton Oliver Jennings
Date of birth 8 March 1902
Place of birth    Strathaven, Scotland
Date of death    1973
Playing position Striker
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
 ?
1919
1921–1925
1925–1931
1931–1933
?		 Cadzow St Anne's
Tottenham Hotspur (trial)
Raith Rovers
Leeds United
Chester City
Bangor City		 00? 00(?)
000 00(0)
00? 00(?)
167 (112)
048 0(33)
00? 00(?)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Thomas 'Tom' Hamilton Oliver Jennings (8 March 1902 – 1973) was a Scottish footballer.

[edit] Career

Jennings started his career with Cadzow St Anne's and had a trial with Tottenham Hotspur in 1919, playing no games for the club[1]. He then moved on to Raith Rovers, before joining Leeds United in March 1925[1]. He made 167 league appearances for the club, in which he scored 112 goals, before he joined Chester City in June 1931[1]. He made 48 league appearances and scored 33 goals and in 1933 joined Bangor City. [1].

Jennings officially scored Chester's first ever Football League goal in a 1–1 draw with Wrexham on September 2, 1931. Although Chester had beaten Wigan Borough 4-0 four days earlier (with Jennings scoring the third goal), the result was deleted after Wigan resigned from the Football League in October 1931.

Later in the season he scored Chester's first Football League hat-trick [2], when he scored all the club's goals in a 5–1 win over Walsall in January 1932. His tally of five goals in one game has only been matched once (by Barry Jepson in 1958) and never bettered by a Chester player in a Football League fixture [3]. Jennings also scored four times in a 7–2 win over Rochdale in April 1932 and comfortably ended the season as Chester's top scorer, with 30 league goals to his name. But he only played nine more league games for the club after this and moved on.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888–1939. Tony Brown, p. 138. ISBN 1899468676. 
  2. ^ Chas Sumner (1997). On the Borderline: The Official History of Chester City 1885-1997, p.51. ISBN 1-874427-52-6. 
  3. ^ Chas Sumner (1997). On the Borderline: The Official History of Chester City 1885-1997, p.130. ISBN 1-874427-52-6.