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...
2012 - USA international Robbie Findley is signed on loan from Championship Nottingham Forest
FIXTURES...
1895 - New Brompton 3-0 Reading SL
Thomas, Albert Lister and Harry Buckland were the scorers in this convincing win
1901 - New Brompton 0-0 West Ham Utd SL
1907 - Tottenham H 2-1 New Brompton SL
John Pickering was the scorer in North London
1912 - Brentford 0-1 Gillingham SL
Albert Court scored the only goal in West London
1921 - Gillingham 3-2 Arsenal
Tommy Hall scored twice and Wally Battiste added the other in a testimonial game to mark William Ironside Groombridge's 25 years at club
1929 - Norwich City 2-0 Gillingham D3S Att: 9,981
1935 - Gillingham 3-0 Cardiff City D3S Att: 5,663
William Duncan, William Baldwin and Fred Fisher all scored in this emphatic win
1936 - Millwall 3-0 Gillingham D3S Att: 6,580
1946 - Worcester City 1-6 Gillingham SL
Hat-tricks from Stan Trumper and Hughie Russell saw the Gills to a resounding away win
1949 - Chelmsford City 1-1 Gillingham SL Att: 6,500
John Warsap was on target in Essex
1955 - Gillingham 2-1 Exeter City D3S Att: 8,266
Willie Millar and Ernie Morgan were on target to beat the Grecians
1957 - Gillingham 1-0 Plymouth Arg. D3S Att: 9,560
The only goal of the game came from Joe Hutton
1960 - Gillingham 3-2 York City D4 Att: 5081
The Gills won by the odd goal in five thanks to goals from John Shepherd, Pat Terry and Gordon Brown
1963 - Gillingham 2-1 Darlington D4 Att: 8,269
Brian Gibbs and Ron Newman scored to send the Quakers on the long journey home pointless
1966 - Gillingham 1-1 Arsenal LC2R Att: 20,566
A Charlie Rackstraw penalty shocked the Gunners in the replay here at Priestfield
1974 - Plymouth Arg. 1-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 5,556
A spot-kick from Keith Lindsey earned a point at Home Park
1981 - Brentford 0-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 5,425
Dick Tydeman got the winner at Griffin Park
1985 - Bury 1-2 Gillingham D3 Att: 2,802
Goals from Dave Mehmet and Terry Cochrane saw the Gills to victory at Gigg Lane
1991 - Gillingham 3-3 Barnet D4 Att: 4,858
Tony Eeles and David Crown (2) were on target but the Bee's still got a point
1996 - Gillingham 3-1 Rotherham Utd D2 Att: 4,852
Iffy Onuora scored a hat-trick against the Millers
1999 - Bolton W 2-0 Gillingham WC2-1L Att: 3,673
2002 - Gillingham 1-1 Sheffield Utd D1 Att: 7,497
Paul Shaw got the Gills goal which blunted the Blades
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DEBUTS...
The following players made their Gillingham debuts in the above games...
1935 - Fred Fisher versus Cardiff C
1955 - Tom Crombie in the home game with Exeter
1963 - Ron Newman at Priestfield against Darlington
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BIRTHS...
1955 - David Tong
The Blackpool-born midfielder came through the ranks at his home-town club and had played for Shrewsbury Town, Cardiff City and Bristol City before Keith Peacock brought him to Gillingham in March 1986.
He made his debut against Reading and made five consecutive appearances in the team.
David later played in Europe with Merthyr Tydfil and managed Fleetwood Town.
1970 - Matt Bryant
The Bristol-born defender graduated from schoolboy through to first-teamer at Ashton Gate before Tony Pulis paid £65,000 for his services in August 1996. Ironically he made his debut against his former club on the opening day of the season.
His time at Priestfield was interupted by injury but he made a total of 123 appearances for the Gills before being forced to retire through injury in January 2001.
1982 - Rowan Vine
The former £2.5m striker joined the Gills on loan from QPR in March 2012.
He made his debut as a 78th minute substitute for Jo Kuffour at Bradford City and went on to score one goal in nine appearances for the club.
In the summer of 2012 he signed for Scottish Premier League St. Johnstone.
1988 - Darren Dennehy
The Republic of Ireland Under-21 international joined the Gills on loan from Cardiff City in January 2010.
Darren, a central defender made his debut against Colchester United and went on to make 19 appearances on total.
Following Mark Stimson's dismissal, the former Everton youngster followed him to Barnet but just six games into his career at Underhill he suffered a serious injury which kept him out of action until earlier this season.