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{{short description|English footballer}}
{{for|the clergyman and religious controversialist|Thomas Pyle}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name        = Tom Pyle
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| fullname    = Tom Pyle<ref name=LCFCarchive>{{cite web |url=http://www.redimps.com/archive3/index.mv?cat=players&drop=playerdetsdrop&play=pyle01 |title=Tom Pyle |work=The Lincoln City FC Archive |publisher=Lincoln City F.C |accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref>
| birth_date  = 29 November 1875<ref name="1939reg">''1939 England and Wales Register''</ref>
| birth_place = [[Lincoln, Lincolnshire]],<ref name=LCFCarchive/> England
| death_date  = {{dda|1958|12|20|1875|11|29|df=y}}<ref name=LCFCarchive/>
| death_place = Lincoln, Lincolnshire<ref name="death">''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995''</ref>
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| position    = [[Inside left|inside]] / [[outside left]]
| years1      = –         | clubs1 = Princess (Lincoln)                 | caps1 =    | goals1 =
| years2      = 1894–1900 | clubs2 = [[Lincoln City F.C.|Lincoln City]] | caps2 = 27 | goals2 = 3
| years3      = –         | clubs3 = Adelaide (Lincoln)                 | caps3 =    | goals3 =
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'''Tom Pyle''' (29 November 1875 – 20 December 1958) was an English [[association football|footballer]] who played in [[the Football League]] for [[Lincoln City F.C.|Lincoln City]] as an [[Inside left|inside]] or [[outside left]].<ref name=Joyce>{{cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData |location=Nottingham |page=214 |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}}</ref>
Pyle appeared infrequently for Lincoln's first team, making only 30 appearances in senior competition over six seasons.<ref name=LCFCarchive/> In March 1899&nbsp;– four years after his Football League debut&nbsp;– the ''Sheffield Independent'' described him as "a local youth who had been introduced at outside left", who "played a very fine game, and was on more than one occasion the recipient of a splendid ovation at the hands of the spectators" as Lincoln beat [[Manchester United F.C.|Newton Heath]] 2–0.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lincoln City v. Newton Heath |work=The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent |date=27 March 1899 |page=9}}</ref> Pyle opened the scoring in Lincoln's next game, a 2–2 draw with [[Birmingham City F.C.|Small Heath]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Lincoln City v. Small Heath |work=The Liverpool Mercury |date=1 April 1899 |page=8}}</ref> and his third and last senior goal came on the opening day of the [[1899–1900 Football League]] season, in a 3–0 defeat of [[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Lincoln City v. Middlesbrough |work=The Liverpool Mercury |date=4 September 1899 |page=9}}</ref> He also played local football in the [[Lincoln, Lincolnshire|Lincoln]] area.<ref name=Joyce/>
He later worked as a bricklayer in Lincoln,<ref name="1939reg"/> where he died in 1958.<ref name="death"/>
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[[Category:1875 births]]
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[[Category:Footballers from Lincoln, England]]
[[Category:English men's footballers]]
[[Category:Men's association football forwards]]
[[Category:Lincoln City F.C. players]]
[[Category:English Football League players]]
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