Tom Pyle

For the clergyman and religious controversialist, see Thomas Pyle.

Tom Pyle (29 November 1875 – 20 December 1958) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Lincoln City as an inside or outside left.^[4]

Tom Pyle

Personal information
Full name	Tom Pyle[1]
Date of birth	29 November 1875[2]
Place of birth	Lincoln, Lincolnshire,[1] England
Date of death	20 December 1958(1958-12-20) (aged 83)[1]
Place of death	Lincoln, Lincolnshire[3]
Position(s)	inside / outside left
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
–	Princess (Lincoln)
1894–1900	Lincoln City	27	(3)
–	Adelaide (Lincoln)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pyle appeared infrequently for Lincoln's first team, making only 30 appearances in senior competition over six seasons.^[1] In March 1899 – four years after his Football League debut – the Sheffield Independent described him as "a local youth who had been introduced at outside left", who "played a very fine game, and was on more than one occasion the recipient of a splendid ovation at the hands of the spectators" as Lincoln beat Newton Heath 2–0.^[5] Pyle opened the scoring in Lincoln's next game, a 2–2 draw with Small Heath,^[6] and his third and last senior goal came on the opening day of the 1899–1900 Football League season, in a 3–0 defeat of Middlesbrough.^[7] He also played local football in the Lincoln area.^[4]

He later worked as a bricklayer in Lincoln,^[2] where he died in 1958.^[3]