Tommy Griffiths

Life and career Thomas Griffiths was born on 27 May 1901 in Willington Quay, Northumberland. The 1911 Census records him living in St Mary's Terrace, Willington Quay, the youngest of four surviving children of Thomas William Griffiths, a labourer in a metal foundry, and his wife, Jane.

Griffiths played local football for Willington St Aidan's, initially at full back before being switched to centre forward, from which position he scored 11 goals in the last five matches of the 1921–22 season. He signed for Lincoln City of the Football League Third Division North in August 1922. He had seven goals at this stage, and that was enough to make him Lincoln's joint top scorer for the season alongside Harry Pringle. He went straight into the league side for a 4–0 defeat away to Wrexham, Tom Robertson reclaimed the centre-forward position for the next match, and Griffiths was restricted to Northern Alliance football with Ashington's reserves until he returned to Jarrow in February 1924. He died in 1950.