Tom Nixon
Thomas Nixon is an English former amateur footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Darlington. He was on the books of Newcastle United without playing for their first team.
Nixon came into the Darlington side at left half as one of several team changes for the visit to Halifax Town in the Third Division North on 1 December 1951. They lost 4–1, and that was his only senior appearance.
He was born in Backworth, Northumberland, in 1931 and died in North Tyneside in 2003 at the age of 72.
