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1996
Aged 65

Don TILLEY
Welsh centre-forward Don's only senior game for Town came in a shock 4-1 defeat at Southern League Hastings United in December 1953.

1995
Aged 85

Cliff MERRICK
A Mancunian, Cliff's brief League career was ended by injury in 1935. He was later the landlord of the Unicorn Hotel in Cheltenham.

1939
Aged 48

Ted SCANLAN
Ted arrived at the County Ground in May 1914. But when the Southern League was suspended for the remainder of the First War in the following spring, he returned to his native County Durham, where he worked as a plater in one of the local shipyards. After the Great War, Ted joined Hamilton Academical while in similar employment on the Clyde, but later returned to South Shields. He died in the General Hospital there - formerly a workhouse.