Personal information | |||
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Full name | Nicholas Jennings | ||
Date of birth | 18 January 1946 | ||
Place of birth | Wellington, Somerset, England | ||
Date of death | 4 June 2016 | (aged 70)||
Position(s) | Winger | ||
Youth career | |||
1961–63 | Wellington | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1963–1967 | Plymouth Argyle | 98 | (11) |
1967–1974 | Portsmouth | 206 | (45) |
1973 | → Aldershot (loan) | 4 | (1) |
1973 | Dallas Tornado | 18 | (3) |
1974–1978 | Exeter City | 124 | (15) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Nicholas Jennings (18 January 1946 – 4 June 2016) was an English professional footballer whose 15-year career ran from the early 1960s [1] to the mid-1970s. [2]
Born in Wellington, Somerset [3] he played nearly 100 league games for his first club Plymouth Argyle. A speedy winger, [4] he moved to Portsmouth in January 1967 and was to prove such a popular player that in 1971 he was awarded the title of Pompey's Player of the Year. [5] In all he made over 200 appearances for Pompey [6] (and 4 during a loan spell at Aldershot) before moving to Exeter on a free transfer [7] in the 1974 close season, making his final league appearance in 1978. Jennings also played the summer of 1973 in the NASL with the Dallas Tornado. [8] He was named an All-Star Honorable Mention and help Dallas to the league final, which they lost 0–2.
Jennings died on Saturday 4 June 2016 at the age of 70. [9]