Thomas Burn

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The Great Britain national football team at the 1912 Summer Olympics. Standing: Dines, Brebner, Berry, Walden, Woodward, Hoare, Sharpe, Knight. Sitting: McWirther, Burn, Littlewort.

Olympic medal record
Men's football
Representing  Great Britain
Gold medal – first place 1912 Stockholm Team competition

Thomas Christopher Burn (29 November 1888[1] – 23 July 1976) was an England amateur footballer who played at the 1912 Summer Olympics.[2] He was part of the Great Britain team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament. He played in all three of the games against Hungary, Finland and Denmark.[3][4] He played his club football for London Caledonians F.C. He also played in the English FA XI tour of South Africa in 1920.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Some sources report his year of birth 1889.
  2. ^ "Thomas Burn". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  3. ^ The Complete Results & Line-ups of the Olympic Football Tournaments 1900–2004: Colin Jose (2004)
  4. ^ www.databaseolympics.com Archived 8 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "The Times"
  6. ^ "British and Irish Special and Intermediate Internationals", Soccer Data publications, Keith Warsop