George Cummings (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | George Wilfred Cummings | ||
| Date of birth | 5 June 1913 | ||
| Place of birth | Falkirk, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 9 April 1987 (aged 73) | ||
| Place of death | Birmingham, England | ||
| Position(s) | Left back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Thornbridge Waverley[1] | |||
| Thornbridge Welfare[1] | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| – | |||
| 1932–1935 | Partick Thistle | 114 | (1) |
| 1935–1949 | Aston Villa | 210 | (0) |
| Total | 324 | (1) | |
| National team | |||
| 1934–1935 | Scottish League XI | 2 | (0) |
| 1935–1939 | Scotland | 9 | (0) |
| 1944 | Scotland (wartime) | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
George Wilfred Cummings (5 June 1913 – 9 April 1987) was a Scottish footballer of the 1930s and 1940s, who played as a left back.[2]
Club career[]
Cummings was the captain of Aston Villa's great post-World War II defence,[3] having signed for the club in November 1935 from Partick Thistle,[4] where he had made a total of 138 appearances in all competitions, scoring one goal,[5] and won a Glasgow Cup medal with the Jags in 1934.[6]
At Villa Park, Cummings gained a Second Division championship medal in 1938 and a Football League War Cup tankard in 1944, also guesting for several teams (including hometown club Falkirk) during the conflict.[4][1] He was the Villains club captain from 1945 to his retirement in 1949, and was popular with supporters due to his never-say-die spirit and no-nonsense defending. He played 421 times for the club in total, including wartime competitions – his peacetime total being just over half of that.[1]
On retirement as a player he was a youth coach at Aston Villa for three years, and also worked for the Dunlop Rubber Company and Hardy Spicer Ltd. in Birmingham.
International career[]
Cummings represented both Scotland (nine caps, three while at Partick Thistle)[7] and the Scottish League XI (two caps),[8] also playing in an SFA tour of North America in 1935 and in one wartime international in 1944.[9]
References[]
- ^ a b c d George Cummings, Aston Villa Player Database
- ^ "George Cummings". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ George Cummings, The Real History of Aston Villa Football Club
- ^ a b John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ^ Players C, Partick Thistle History Archive
- ^ Partick Thistle Win The Glasgow Cup, The Glasgow Herald, 15 October 1934, via Partick Thistle History Archive
- ^ George Cummings at the Scottish Football Association
- ^ "[SFL player] George Cummings". London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
- ^ "[Scotland player – including unofficial matches] George Cummings". London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
External links[]
- George Cummings at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
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