News relevant to the club on this day
Richard Day looks back at news relevant to Gillingham FC on this day in history, games, players, debuts etc...FIXTURES...
1893 - New Brompton 3-3 Sheppey Utd Fr
1899 - New Brompton 2-2 Sheppey Utd SLD1
James Graham and Bob Innes were on target in this North Kent derby
1905 - Millwall 5-0 New Brompton SLD1
1911 - West Ham Utd 0-0 New Brompton SLD1
1922 - Brighton & HA 3-0 Gillingham D3S
1933 - Exeter City 2-0 Gillingham D3S Att: 6,985
1950 - Crystal Palace 4-3 Gillingham D3S Att: 18,896
The Gills lost by the odd goal in seven, Bobby Veck, Charlie Marks and a Harry Briggs own goal were the scorers
1959 - Gillingham 1-0 Torquay Utd D4 Att: 5,806
Sammy Moore scored the goal to beat the Gulls
1961 - Gillingham 3-1 Bradford City D4 Att: 7,264
Two Bob Ridley goals and another Gordon Pulley effort helped beat the Bantams
1967 - Oldham Ath. 0-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 4,604
Brian Gibbs scored the only goal of the game at Boundary Park
1970 - Gills Res 3-1 Ipswich T FC
1972 - Torquay Utd 0-0 Gillingham D4 Att: 2,762
1978 - Exeter City 0-0 Gillingham D3 Att: 4,241
1980 - Gillingham 0-0 Swindon T D3 Att: 4,066
1986 - Gillingham 1-1 Oxford Utd LC2R-2L Att: 3,033
The damage had already been done in the first-leg (0-6) but Tony Cascarino netted as the Gills saved some face
1992 - Southampton 3-0 Gillingham CCC2R-2L Att: 6,764
1995 - Gillingham 1-0 Rochdale D3 Att: 7,782
A cracking header from Alex Watson won the points for Gillingham
2006 - Crewe Alex. 4-3 Gillingham L1 Att: 5,022
The Gills led 2-0 and 3-1 thanks to goals from Alan Pouton, Michael Flynn and Dean McDonald but it wasn't enough to even get a point
2008 - Gillingham 0-1 Colchester U FLT Att: 1,557
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DEBUTS...
The following players made their Gillingham debuts in the above games...
1922 - Freddie Fox at Brighton
1933 - Hugh Mooney against Exeter at St James Park
1961 - Ronnie Waldock versus Bradford City
1995 - David Puttnam at home to Rochdale
2008 - Tom Murphy against Colchester at home
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BIRTHS...
1900 - Fred Ellis
Fred joined from home-town club Sheppey United in June 1925 and made the first of his 108 league appearances against Millwall four months later. In the summer of 1931 he moved to Watford
1933 - Bill Grant
The Scot, previously with Brechin City, joined the Gills in August 1956 but due to the form of others, made just one first-team appearance at Lincoln City in the October.
1945 - Bob Moffatt
Bob was signed by Gillingham manager Freddie Cox from his previous club Portsmouth in May 1965.
He made his first-team debut at Scunthorpe United in September and in total made 24 appearances in three seasons at Priestfield.
Following spells at Margate and Chelmsford City he moved to the USA with Dallas Tornado in 1970.
1983 - Jones Awuah
The striker came through the ranks at Priestfield and made his debut as a 73rd minute substitute for Guy Ipoua against Nottingham Forest at the City Ground in September 2002.
He made just four appearances, totalling 106 minutes of action, before embarking on a personal tour of non-league clubs, the current one being Ryman Division One South Burgess Hill Town.