ON THIS DAY

News relevant to the club on this day previously

Richard Day looks back at news relevant to Gillingham FC on this day in history, games, players, debuts etc...

NEWS...


1975 - Gerry Summers is announced as the new manager at Gillingham following the departure of Len Ashurst

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FIXTURES...

1900 - New Brompton 2-1 Watford            SLD1
Jack Frettingham and John MacDonald were on target in this win against the Hornets

1906 - New Brompton 0-2 Southampton    SLD1

1923 - Newport County 2-1 Gillingham      D3S
A George Needham goal wasn't sufficient at Somerton Park

1928 - Brighton & HA 3-1 Gillingham         D3S   Att: 6,558
Albert Legge scored but the Gills lost at the Goldstone Ground

1934 - Crystal Palace 2-0 Gillingham        D3S   Att: 12,942

1945 - Snowdown CW 2-5 Gillingham       KL
A Tug Wilson hat-trick plus two more from Stan Trumper proved too much for the miner's team

1951 - Gillingham 4-1 Walsall                  D3S   Att: 14,490
A Dave Thomas double, which included a penalty, plus further goals from Jackie Briggs and Derek Lewis saw the Gills ease to victory

1956 - Coventry City 4-1 Gillingham        D3S   Att: 16,993
Jim Taylor scored in this defeat at Highfield Road

1962 - Gillingham 4-2 Torquay United         D4   Att: 7,650
A Gordon Pulley hat-trick plus a goal from Roy Moss were suffice to beat United

1964 - Bristol Rovers 3-0 Gillingham          D3   Att: 12,383

1973 - Gillingham 2-1 Stockport Co           D4   Att: 5,777
A Dave Peach penalty plus an Alan Wilks goal were enough to edge past the Hatters

1979 - Mansfield Town 2-0 Gillingham        D3   Att: 4,598

1984 - Gillingham 2-2 Bradford City          D3   Att: 3,896
The Bantams took a point despite goals from Mark Weatherly and Tony Cascarino

1990 - Gillingham 2-3 Wrexham                D4   Att: 3,092
Ian Docker and Richard Carpenter both scored their first goals for the club but the Dragons still had too much fire-power

2001 - Gillingham 2-0 Walsall                   D1   Att: 7,548
Goals from David Perpetuini and Guy Ipoua were enough to beat the Saddlers

2007 - Gillingham 3-2 Bristol Rovers         L1   Att: 5,333
Two goals in the last five minutes from David Graham and Chris Dickson saw the Gills come from behind to win, Aaron Brown had earlier scored the opener.



2012 - AFC Wimbledon 0-1 Gillingham      L2    Att: 4,546
Frenchman Romain Vincelot netted the winner on his debut at Kingsmeadow

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DEBUTS...

The following players made their Gillingham debuts in the above games...

1928 - Albert Picken at Brighton

1962 - Brian Gibbs and Dave Huddart at home to Torquay

1990 - Richard Carpenter against Wrexham at Priestfield

2001 - JLloyd Samuel when Walsall visited

2012 - Romain Vincelot away at AFC Wimbledon
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BIRTHS...

1924 - Jackie Briggs

Gills manager Archie Clark signed the forward from the Royal Engineers in October 1946.

He made a goalscoring debut in the 12-1 Southern League victory over Gloucester City in which Hughie Russell, with whom he went on to forge a terrific partnership, netted nine times.

In his seven seasons with the club he scored 63 goals in 180 appearances abefore later playing for Folkestone Town and Betteshangar Colliery Welfare.