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Jim Crossan

Name: James Crossan Born: c.1941, Londonderry Height: 5.08 ft Weight: 10.07 st Position: Right-Back Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Amateur Caps (1964) . Club Honours: (with Derry) Irish League Champion 1964/65 ; Irish Cup Winner 1963/64. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup FL Cup Europe Other Derry City - - Amateur - - - 5/1 - TOTALS - £- - - - - - Biography: Although small for a defender, Jim Crossan was strong and determined in the tackle. Also blessed with good pace, he won his only amateur cap as right-back, though shortly before this he had established himself as Derry City's regular centre-half. Indeed it was as "pivot" that he claimed an Irish Cup winner's medal in 1964 when the Candytripes defeated G...

John 'Bap' Dunlop

PSNI FC Name: John Dunlop Born: c.1924, Belfast Died: 2005/06 Height: Weight: Position: Right-Back Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 2 Amateur Caps (1950-1951 ), Junior, 3 Schoolboy Caps (1938) ; Irish League; British Police. Club Honours: Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Glentoran - -39 Amateur - - - Ards - -42 Amateur - - - Bangor - - Amateur - - - Glenavon - -45 Amateur - - - Coleraine - -45 Amateur - - - Crusaders - -46 Amateur - - - Bangor - - Amateur - - - Glentoran - -49 Amateur - - - Distillery - - Amateur - - - R.U.C. 1950 - 1960 -50 ...

Jackie Cummings

Name: John G. Cummings Born: c.1937 Died: April 2008, Belfast Height: Weight: Position: Half-Back Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 3 Amateur Caps (1957-1958). Club Honours: (with Ards) Irish League Champion 1957/58 ; (with Glenavon) Irish Cup Winner 1958/59 Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Ards 53/4-57/8   Amateur *46/0 - - Glenavon 58/9 c/s-58 Amateur - - - Ards 59/0   Amateur *26/0 - - Cliftonville     Amateur - - - Distillery     Amateur - - - Dundela     - - ...

Jimmy Todd

Name: James Alexander Todd Born: c.1918 Died: 4 November 2007 Height: Weight: Position: Outside-Right Representative Honours: Ireland: 2 Amateur Caps (1938) ; Irish League: 2 Caps (1938). Club Honours: (with Linfield) Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1937/38. Awards: NI Football Writers' Association Merit Award 1996/97. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Linfield 37/38 Apr-37 Amateur - - - Glentoran 38/39 -38 - * 19/ 8 - - Linfield 39/40 -39 - - - - Ards 39/40-46/47 -39 - 19/10 - #122/89 TOTALS - £- - - - * all games; # Intermediate League games. Biography: Jimmy Todd was capped at Amateur international level as a Linfield player. He made his Blues debut on 18th September 1937, scoring twice in a 5-2 win over Glentoran. He ended...

Cecil Smyth

Name: Cecil Smyth Born: 4 May 1941, Belfast Died:  7 November 2008, Exeter (England) Height: 5.06 ft Weight: 10.08 st Position: Right-Back Club Honours: (with Distillery) City Cup Winner 1959/60 ; (with Exeter) Football League Division Four Fourth Place (promoted) 1963/64. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Distillery 58/59-61/62 - - *108(0)/? - - Exeter City 62/63-68/69 Aug-62 - 270(3)/1 16(0)/0 14(0)/1 Torquay United 69/70-70/71 Aug-69 £2,500 22(1)/0 1(0)/0 - Barnstaple Town - - - - - - TOTALS - £- 400(4)/1 17(0)/0 14(0)/1 * all games. Biography: Cec Smyth established himseld as a regular for Distillery while still a teenager, helping them to a City Cup success in 1959. He moved to the Football League with Exeter ...