Tom Fleetwood

Tom Fleetwood (born 06/12/1888, died 23/04/1966) was a footballer who played in the Football League for Everton, Rochdale and Oldham Athletic.

Fleetwood signed for Everton in 1911 and had a good career playing 264 league games,in a number of positions, he was mainly "A Centre Half as hard as nails" this statement was on a caricature that our family own and his nickname was "THE WAR HORSE".^{[citation needed]}

He won the old English First Division Football League with his beloved Everton in the 1914–15 season. Fleetwood later in his career signed for Oldham Athletic but returned to Everton as a scout then had the honour of becoming Chief Scout and had a large influence in the signing/scouting of Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton.^{[citation needed]}