George Cummings (footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | George Wilfred Cummings | ||
| Date of birth | 5 June 1913 | ||
| Place of birth | Falkirk, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 9 April 1987 (aged 73) | ||
| Place of death | Birmingham, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11+1⁄2 in (1.82 m)[1] | ||
| Position | Left back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Thornbridge Waverley[2] | |||
| Thornbridge Welfare[2] | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| – | Grange Rovers | ||
| 1932–1935 | Partick Thistle | 114 | (1) |
| 1935–1949 | Aston Villa | 210 | (0) |
| Total | 324 | (1) | |
| International career | |||
| 1934–1935 | Scottish League XI | 2 | (0) |
| 1935–1939 | Scotland | 9 | (0) |
| 1944 | Scotland (wartime) | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
George Wilfred Cummings (5 June 1913 – 9 April 1987) was a Scottish footballer of the 1930s and 1940s, who played as a left back.[3]
Cummings was the captain of Aston Villa's great post-World War II defence,[4] having signed for the club in November 1935 from Partick Thistle,[5] where he had made a total of 138 appearances in all competitions, scoring one goal,[6] and won a Glasgow Cup medal with the Jags in 1934.[7]
At Villa Park, Cummings gained a Second Division championship medal in 1938 and a Football League War Cup tankard in 1944, also guesting for several teams (including hometown club Falkirk) during the conflict.[5][2] He was the Villans' club captain from 1945 to his retirement in 1949, and was popular with supporters due to his never-say-die spirit and no-nonsense defending. He played 421 times for the club in total, including wartime competitions – his peacetime total being just over half of that.[2]
On retirement as a player he was a youth coach at Aston Villa for three years, and also worked for the Dunlop Rubber Company and Hardy Spicer Ltd. in Birmingham.
