Tom Cooper (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Thomas Cooper | ||
| Date of birth | 9 April 1904 | ||
| Place of birth | Stoke-on-Trent, England | ||
| Date of death | 25 June 1940 (aged 36) | ||
| Place of death | Aldeburgh, England | ||
| Playing position | Right-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Longton | |||
| Trentham | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1924–1926 | Port Vale | 32 | (0) |
| 1926–1934 | Derby County | 248 | (1) |
| 1934–1940 | Liverpool | 150 | (0) |
| Total | 430 | (1) | |
| National team | |||
| 1927–1934 | England | 15 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Thomas "Tom" Cooper (9 April 1904 – 25 June 1940) was an England international footballer who played for Port Vale, Derby County, and Liverpool. He won 15 caps, and played 430 league games in a 16-year career in the Football League. He helped Derby to finish second in the Second Division in 1925–26 and second in the First Division in 1929–30.
Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Cooper played for Longton and then Trentham, before being bought by Port Vale for £20 in August 1924. He played 21 Second Division matches in the 1924–25 season, but featured just 11 times in the 1925–26 campaign.
Cooper was sold to George Jobey's Derby County for a £2,500 fee in March 1926. He settled straight into the "Rams" line-up and became an integral member of the team that secured promotion out of the Second Division with a second-place finish in 1925–26. County went on to finish 12th in the First Division in 1926–27, before rising to fourth place in 1927–28. After a sixth-place finish in 1928–29, County finished second in the league in 1929–30 – though they ended up some ten points behind champions The Wednesday. They secured a sixth-place finish again in 1930–31. Cooper was made skipper at the Baseball Ground in 1931, and led the club to 15th in 1931–32, seventh in 1932–33, and fourth again in 1933–34.
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