Freddie Cox

Freddie Cox
Personal information
Full name Frederick James Arthur Cox[1]
Date of birth (1920-11-01)1 November 1920[1]
Place of birth Reading, England
Date of death 7 August 1973(1973-08-07) (aged 52)[1]
Place of death Bournemouth,[1] England
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
St George's Lads Club
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
193?–1949 Tottenham Hotspur 99 (15)
1936–1938Northfleet United (loan)
1949–1953 Arsenal 79 (9)
1953–1954 West Bromwich Albion 4 (1)
Total 182 (25)
Managerial career
1956–1958 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
1958–1961 Portsmouth
1962–1965 Gillingham
1965–1970 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Frederick James Arthur Cox DFC (1 November 1920 – 7 August 1973) was an English football player and manager. Playing as a winger, he scored 25 goals from 182 appearances in the Football League either side of the Second World War,[1] and was on the winning side for Arsenal in the 1950 FA Cup Final. He then spent 14 years as a manager at Football League level.

During the war, he served as a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

  1. ^ a b c d e "Freddie Cox". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

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