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.