Player Details

Tommy Frame

Real Name: Thomas Frame
Normal Position: Centre Half
Born: 05/09/1902 (Burnbank, Hamilton)
Died: 17/01/1988 (Paisley)

Heritage Number: 678
Debut Match*: 29/08/1936 v Hartlepool United (Football League)
Last Match*: 27/04/1937 v Chester City (Third Division (North) Cup)
* Qualifying Games

He made his Southport début a week short of his 35th birthday, having appeared in over 150 Scottish League matches. United paid Cowdenbeath a four-figure fee, but he had the misfortune to fracture his left leg at Old Trafford on Easter Saturday 1934 after taking over the centre-half berth from Ernie Vincent and did not appear again in United’s League side. Strong in defence and a wholehearted player, he was essentially more an attacking pivot than a specialist defender — perhaps a luxury playing alongside two attacking wing-halves like Crawford and Newcomb. During the war, he worked as a labourer for Babcock & Wilcox at Renfrew and continued right up to his retirement. He had played no football at all until he was 16, by which time he had been working down the pit for three years. He was still active playing golf into his eighties. He only missed two penalties in his career — the second was on his Southport début.

Profile reproduced with Permission from:
The Sandgrounders: The Complete League History of Southport F. C., by Michael Braham and Geoff Wilde (Palatine Books, 1995). ISBN 978-1-874181-14-9

Season: 1936/1937 [Back to Player Stats]
The player made an appearance in the following games:

Date	Home Club	Away Club	Score	Competition	Round	Match Date	Heritage Qualifying	Void
29/08/1936	Southport	Hartlepools United	1 - 1	Football League	D3N	29/08/1936	Yes	No
03/09/1936	Carlisle United	Southport	1 - 1	Football League	D3N	03/09/1936	Yes	No
05/09/1936	Lincoln City	Southport	4 - 1	Football League	D3N	05/09/1936	Yes	No
12/09/1936	Tranmere Rovers	Southport	3 - 3	Football League	D3N	12/09/1936	Yes	No
15/09/1936	Rochdale	Southport	2 - 1	Football League	D3N	15/09/1936	Yes	No
19/09/1936	Southport	Halifax Town	2 - 1	Football League	D3N	19/09/1936	Yes	No
26/09/1936	Mansfield Town	Southport	3 - 0	Football League	D3N	26/09/1936	Yes	No
30/09/1936	Manchester City	Southport	3 - 0	Lancashire Senior Cup	1	30/09/1936	No	No
03/10/1936	Southport	Crewe Alexandra	1 - 1	Football League	D3N	03/10/1936	Yes	No
10/10/1936	Chester	Southport	2 - 3	Football League	D3N	10/10/1936	Yes	No
13/10/1936	Southport	Rochdale	3 - 0	Third Division (North) Cup	1	13/10/1936	Yes	No
17/10/1936	Southport	Accrington Stanley (1891)	3 - 1	Football League	D3N	17/10/1936	Yes	No
24/10/1936	Oldham Athletic	Southport	3 - 3	Football League	D3N	24/10/1936	Yes	No
31/10/1936	Southport	Port Vale	3 - 3	Football League	D3N	31/10/1936	Yes	No
07/11/1936	Rotherham United	Southport	3 - 0	Football League	D3N	07/11/1936	Yes	No
19/12/1936	New Brighton	Southport	3 - 1	Football League	D3N	19/12/1936	Yes	No
25/12/1936	Barrow	Southport	2 - 1	Football League	D3N	25/12/1936	Yes	No
26/12/1936	Hartlepools United	Southport	2 - 0	Football League	D3N	26/12/1936	Yes	No
01/01/1937	Southport	Rochdale	1 - 1	Football League	D3N	01/01/1937	Yes	No
02/01/1937	Southport	Lincoln City	2 - 1	Football League	D3N	02/01/1937	Yes	No
09/01/1937	Southport	Tranmere Rovers	1 - 0	Football League	D3N	09/01/1937	Yes	No
16/01/1937	Southport	Hull City	1 - 4	Football League	D3N	16/01/1937	Yes	No
19/01/1937	Southport	Darlington	0 - 0	Football League	D3N	19/01/1937	Yes	No
23/01/1937	Halifax Town	Southport	1 - 1	Football League	D3N	23/01/1937	Yes	No
30/01/1937	Southport	Mansfield Town	3 - 2	Football League	D3N	30/01/1937	Yes	No
06/02/1937	Crewe Alexandra	Southport	3 - 2	Football League	D3N	06/02/1937	Yes	No
13/02/1937	Southport	Chester	1 - 2	Football League	D3N	13/02/1937	Yes	No
20/02/1937	Accrington Stanley (1891)	Southport	6 - 3	Football League	D3N	20/02/1937	Yes	No
27/02/1937	Southport	Oldham Athletic	2 - 0	Football League	D3N	27/02/1937	Yes	No
06/03/1937	Port Vale	Southport	0 - 2	Football League	D3N	06/03/1937	Yes	No
13/03/1937	Southport	Rotherham United	4 - 1	Football League	D3N	13/03/1937	Yes	No
16/03/1937	Southport	Barrow	3 - 3	Football League	D3N	16/03/1937	Yes	No
20/03/1937	Stockport County	Southport	2 - 1	Football League	D3N	20/03/1937	Yes	No
26/03/1937	Southport	York City	1 - 4	Football League	D3N	26/03/1937	Yes	No
27/03/1937	Southport	Wrexham	1 - 1	Football League	D3N	27/03/1937	Yes	No
29/03/1937	York City	Southport	4 - 0	Football League	D3N	29/03/1937	Yes	No
03/04/1937	Darlington	Southport	4 - 2	Football League	D3N	03/04/1937	Yes	No
10/04/1937	Southport	Gateshead (1930)	3 - 0	Football League	D3N	10/04/1937	Yes	No
14/04/1937	Darlington	Southport	2 - 2	Third Division (North) Cup	Semi Final	14/04/1937	Yes	No
17/04/1937	Hull City	Southport	3 - 2	Football League	D3N	17/04/1937	Yes	No
21/04/1937	Southport	Darlington	3 - 0	Third Division (North) Cup	Semi Final Replay	21/04/1937	Yes	No
24/04/1937	Southport	New Brighton	3 - 0	Football League	D3N	24/04/1937	Yes	No
27/04/1937	Southport	Chester	1 - 3	Third Division (North) Cup	Final	27/04/1937	Yes	No