George Gray

Playing career Gray played local football for New Riddick Colliery and North-Eastern League football for Seaham Harbour before signing for Gillingham, for which he made 16 Southern League appearances without scoring before competitive football was abandoned for the duration of the First World War. He served in the Army during the war, He went on to score once from 26 North-Eastern League matches and make one appearance in the FA Cup.

In September 1920, Gray signed for Swansea Town of the Third Division South. but established himself in the team at left half and missed only three matches over the rest of the campaign. and although he played in the reserves, he did not make his first-team debut until late December, standing in for the rested Frank Newton. He kept his place for the next match, and made nine more appearances as injury cover before the half-back line was rearranged to accommodate the return of regular centre-half Edmund Wood. An unsuccessful trial with Durham City in October 1924, during which he played twice in the Third Division North as a centre forward, put an end to his Football League career. and South Shields. The 1939 Register records him living in Sunderland and working as a framesmith's striker. When the Sunderland club resumed playing wartime football at their Roker Park ground, Gray acted as trainer on a voluntary basis, and after the war he was appointed full-time. In July 1950, he treated West Indian cricketer Sonny Ramadhin after he was injured during a tour match against Durham, and acted as trainer to the England team when they played Wales at Sunderland's Roker Park ground in November. He remained in post until 1951, and then took full-time charge of the treatment room and did some scouting.