Tommy McCairns

{{short description|English footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Tommy McCairns

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| fullname = Thomas McCairns

| birth_date = {{birth date|1873|12|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Dinsdale, Darlington, England

| death_date = {{death year and age|1932|1873}}

| death_place = Willesden, England

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}{{cite news |title=Football. The coming season. Prospects of the principal clubs. Notts County |newspaper=Sheffield & Rotherham Independent |date=26 August 1899 |page=10}}

| position = Centre forward

| years1 = – | clubs1 = Middlesbrough Ironopolis | caps1 = | goals1 =

| years2 = – | clubs2 = Whitby | caps2 = | goals2 =

| years3 = 1893–1898 | clubs3 = Grimsby Town | caps3 = 137 | goals3 = 86

| years4 = 1898–1899 | clubs4 = Bristol Rovers | caps4 = | goals4 =

| years5 = 1899 | clubs5 = Notts County | caps5 = 4 | goals5 = 0

| years6 = 1899–1901 | clubs6 = Lincoln City | caps6 = 35 | goals6 = 14

| years7 = 1901–1902 | clubs7 = Barnsley | caps7 = 23 | goals7 = 9

| years8 = 1902–1903 | clubs8 = Wellingborough | caps8 = | goals8 =

| years9 = 1903 | clubs9 = Queens Park Rangers | caps9 = 1 | goals9 = 0

| years10 = 1903–1904 | clubs10= Brighton & Hove Albion | caps10= 17 | goals10= 5

| years11 = 1904–1905 | clubs11= Southern United | caps11= | goals11=

| years12 = – | clubs12= Kettering | caps12= | goals12=

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Thomas McCairns (22 December 1873 – 1932) was an English footballer who scored 109 goals from 199 appearances in the Football League playing for Grimsby Town, Notts County, Lincoln City and Barnsley.{{cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |page=164 |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}} He also played for Middlesbrough Ironopolis, Whitby, in the Birmingham & District League and the Western League for Bristol Rovers,{{cite news |title=Birmingham League. Eastville Rovers v. Dudley |newspaper=The Bristol Mercury |date=3 October 1898 |page=3}}{{cite news |title=The Western League. Bedminster v. Eastville Rovers |newspaper=The Bristol Mercury |date=27 December 1898 |page=3}} in the Southern League for Wellingborough,{{cite news |title=Southern League. Div.I |newspaper=Daily Express |location=London |date=13 October 1902 |page=8}} Queens Park Rangers,{{cite web |url=http://www.qprnet.com/misc/seasonalstats/excels/QPR1903.xls |format=Excel spreadsheet |title=1903/04 |first=Kenneth |last=Westerberg |website=QPRnet |publisher=Ron Norris |accessdate=14 April 2013}} and Brighton & Hove Albion,{{cite book |first1=Tim |last1=Carder |first2=Roger |last2=Harris |title=Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. |publisher=Goldstone Books |location=Hove |date=1997 |page=151 |isbn=978-0-9521337-1-1}} in the South-Eastern League for Southern United,{{cite news |title=South Eastern League. Southern United v. Maidstone United |newspaper=The South Eastern Gazette |location=Maidstone |date=28 February 1905 |page=7}} and for Kettering.