Horace Gager

Horace Edwin Gager Date of Birth: Jan 25, 1917

London born but Luton raised, Horace was picked up by the Hatters in 1937 after he had earned rave reviews playing for Vauxhall Motors. Finally making his Luton debut on the opening day of the1939/40 season, Horace was ever present until war broke out after only three games.

Horace kept playing during the war years, turning out for Glentoran for a while, but was back at Kenilworth Road when hostilities ended and was virtually ever present until a surprise move to Nottingham Forest in 1948.

A commanding centre-half, Horace made up for the lost years of the war by playing at the City Ground until he was 38. Horace sadly died in 1994.