Jackie Benyon
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of birth | Cardiff, Wales | ||
| Date of death | 26 June 1937 | ||
| Place of death | Johannesburg, South Africa | ||
| Playing position | Winger | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| ?–1932 | Doncaster Rovers | ||
| 1932–1937 | Aberdeen | 126 | (34) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Jackie Benyon was a Welsh footballer who played for Doncaster Rovers and Aberdeen until his death from peritonitis on a club tour of South Africa in 1937.
Benyon signed for Aberdeen in 1932 from Doncaster and established himself as a winger in the first team. A few weeks after playing in the 1937 Scottish Cup final, he was struck down with appendicitis while on a tour of South Africa with Aberdeen and died of peritonitis. He was buried in South Africa.[1]