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1886: Argyle Football Club played its first fixture, against Dunheved College, Launceston. This is where it all started then, 139 years ago today.
1935: Argyle's biggest win against arch-rivals Exeter City in a competitive game: 5-0 at St James's Park in the Devon Professional Championship.
1993: In his last game for the Pilgrims, a 4-2 defeat at Burnley, Peter Shilton became the oldest player to don a first-team shirt (44 years and 21 days).
1913: Bobby Stuart - 21 games, no goals between 1947 and 1948.
Stuart started his career with the South Bank amateur club in his hometown of Middlesbrough. He was soon spotted by Boro and spent 17 years at Ayresome Park, ... more
1924: Jack Chisholm - 188 games, 2 goals between 1949 and 1954.
Chisholm began his career as a teenager with Tottenham Hotspur in 1942, but war service soon took precedence. Returning after the war, he found it hard to ... more
1940: Keith Sanderson - 31 games, 2 goals between 1964 and 1965.
Sanderson played for Cambridge University under Malcolm Allison and followed him to Bath City in 1963. He linked up with his manager again when he moved to ... more
1971: Earl Jean - 76 games, 9 goals between 1997 and 1999.
Jean is a former St Lucian international striker who played more than twenty times for his country. He began his professional career in Portugal, playing for ... more
1982: Alan Gow - 14 games, 2 goals between 2009 and 2010.
Gow started his career at his hometown club, Clydebank, moving on to Airdrie when Clydebank went out of business in 2002. An impressive goalscoring record ... more
1986: Stephane Zubar - 34 games, 2 goals between 2010 and 2011.
Zubar was born in Guadeloupe in the French West Indies and began his career in France with Caen, where he progressed through the youth ranks but could not ... more
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