Career
Coxon was born in Whitley Bay, which was then in Northumberland. He played football for non-league club Old Hartley, and by March 1946 had joined Darlington. He appeared twice in the wartime third-tier competition.
He remained with the club until at least 1948, but made only one appearance in the Third Division North, in the 1946-1947 season.
He died in May 1998 in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear.