[3] An inside right, Mackin had a long career in non-League football in his native North East,[2][4] most notably with North Eastern League club Blyth Spartans.
[5] He scored 21 goals in 54 Football League appearances for Lincoln City.
[3][6] Mackin was married with five children and worked as a shipyard labourer in Hebburn, Wallsend and Blyth.
[7] He served as a private in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers during the First World War and was wounded on the first day on the Somme.
[1] Blyth Spartans Bedlington United This biographical article related to association football in England, about a forward born in the 1870s, is a stub.