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Full name
  
Reginald Jenkins

Role
  
Footballer

Place of death
  
Tenerife, Spain

Height
  
1.78 m

Playing position
  
Inside forward

Position
  
Inside forward

Name
  
Reg Jenkins


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Date of birth
  
(1938-10-07)7 October 1938

Place of birth
  
Millbrook, Cornwall, England

Date of death
  
29 January 2013(2013-01-29) (aged 74)

Died
  
January 28, 2013, Tenerife, Spain

Reginald Jenkins (7 October 1938 – 29 January 2013) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League between the 1950s and 1970s.

Jenkins was born in Millbrook, Cornwall. After short spells with Plymouth Argyle and Exeter City, he joined Torquay United in the 1961–62 season, and went on to make 88 league appearances for the Gulls.

He joined Rochdale in 1964–65 and went on to play for them for nine seasons. He became Rochdale's record goalscorer, scored 119 league goals for the club, and made 305 appearances a then record, surpassed a year later by Graham Smith. In 2004, he was voted Rochdale's greatest-ever player by the club's fans.

While recuperating from a knee operation in Tenerife, Spain, Jenkins died in January 2013 at the age of 74.

A year after his death, in February 2014, his home-town club, Millbrook, renamed their ground in honour of Jenkins. The ground, formerly known as Mill Park, is now officially referred to as Jenkins Park. In October 2016, the club renovated the main stand to reflect the name change.

References

Reg Jenkins Wikipedia