Tommy Benfield
Football, Military Person
– 1918
Who was Tommy Benfield?
Tommy Benfield was an English footballer.
He played for Leicester Fosse, and is famous for being the very first person to score at Arsenal Stadium, netting an early goal in Leicester's 2-1 defeat at the hands of Arsenal in a Second Division match on 6 September 1913. He was Leicester's top scorer for the 1913-14 season and moved to Derby County in the close season; he scored twice against his old club in Derby's record 6-0 win over Leicester in the 1914-15 season as they won the Second Division title.
Benfield joined the Army during World War I, and was killed in action by a sniper's bullet in September 1918, less than two months before the war's conclusion.
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