David Jack

Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox football biography David Bone Nightingale Jack (3 April 1898 – 10 September 1958) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward. He scored 267 goals from 490 appearances in the Football League playing for Plymouth Argyle, Bolton Wanderers and Arsenal. He was the first footballer to be transferred for a fee in excess of £10,000, was the first to score at Wembley Template:Sndin the 1923 FA Cup Final Template:Sndand was capped nine times for England. After retiring as a player, he managed Southend United, Middlesbrough and Shelbourne.

Personal lifeEdit

Jack was born in Bolton, Lancashire, in 1898, the son of Scottish footballer Bob Jack and his wife Georgina Nightingale.<ref name=EFO/> He had two brothers, Rollo and Donald, who also played football.<ref name=EFO/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Jack was married to Kathleen.<ref name=EFO/> Their son, also named David, became a journalist and writer who chaired both the Football Writers' Association and its Australian counterpart, the Australian Soccer Press Association.<ref name=DJJr>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Jack died in St Thomas' Hospital, London, in 1958 at the age of 60.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He served in the Royal Navy during the First World War.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Dead link</ref>

Playing careerEdit

An inside forward, Jack started his senior career with his father's club, Plymouth Argyle, after the war. He played in the Southern League in 1919–20, and was a member of Plymouth's team for their first match in the newly formed Football League Third Division in 1920–21. He scored 15 goals in 48 appearances in all competitions.<ref name=GoS>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In late 1920 he returned to the town of his birth, signing for Bolton Wanderers for a fee of £3,500. He spent eight seasons with the Trotters, forming a formidable partnership with Joe Smith, and between them they scored more than 300 goals.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> While with Bolton, he made history by being the first person to score a goal at Wembley Stadium, in the 1923 FA Cup Final; Bolton won 2–0 and Jack earned his first medal.<ref name=GuardianObit>Template:Cite news</ref>

A year later, he won his first England cap, in a 2–1 defeat against Wales on 3 March 1924. In eight years he played nine times for his countryTemplate:Sndfour times as captainTemplate:Sndand scored three goals.<ref name="EFO">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He continued to have success with Bolton, winning the FA Cup again in 1925–26, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 win over Manchester City.<ref name=GuardianObit/> He was the club's top scorer for five of the eight seasons he was there, scoring 144 goals in 295 league matches.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=EFO/> Template:As of, he remains Bolton's third highest goalscorer of all time, with 161 goals from 324 senior matches.<ref name=BurndenAces>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1928, with Bolton in financial trouble, Herbert Chapman's Arsenal made Jack the first five-digit signing in world football, almost double the previous record; the final fee paid was £10,647 10 shillings.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> According to Bob Wall, Chapman negotiated the transfer with Bolton's representatives in a hotel bar, his tactic being to drink gin and tonics without any gin in them, while asking the waiter to double the alcohol served to the other side. Chapman remained sober while the Bolton representatives got very drunk, and managed to haggle down the fee to a price he considered a bargain.<ref name="Wall">Template:Cite book</ref>

Intended as a replacement for retired captain Charlie Buchan, Jack was a success at Highbury.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He made his debut against Newcastle United on 20 October 1928,<ref name=KellySeasons/> and became a regular straight away. He was the club's top scorer for the 1928–29 season.<ref name=Arsenal>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Although less prolific than centre-forward Jack Lambert, he still scored important goals, including the one in the 1929–30 FA Cup semi-final against Hull City which sent Arsenal through to the final<ref name=KellySeasons/> in which Arsenal beat Huddersfield Town 2–0 and Jack became the first player to win the Cup at Wembley with two different clubs.<ref name=Arsenal/> He played in Arsenal's 2–1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday in the Charity Shield at Stamford Bridge in October 1930.<ref name=fortune>Template:Cite news</ref>

Jack continued to feature for Arsenal through the early 1930s, recording a personal best of 34 goals in their First Division-winning season of 1930–31. He won two more titles in 1932–33 and 1933–34.<ref name=Arsenal/> By the time of the latter he was in his mid-30s and reaching the end of his career;<ref name=Arsenal/> competition for his place from new signing Ray Bowden meant Jack played only 16 matches that season.<ref name=GoS/><ref name=KellySeasons>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He retired soon after winning his third league medal, in May 1934.<ref name=Arsenal/> Altogether he scored 124 times in 208 matches for Arsenal, making him, Template:As of the tenth-highest goalscorer in the club's history.<ref name=AFCGoals>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He is one of only three players to score more than 100 English top-flight league goals for two different clubs, along with Jimmy Greaves and Alan Shearer.

Managerial careerEdit

After retiring from playing, Jack went on to manage Southend United from May 1934 to August 1940 and then Middlesbrough from November 1944 to April 1952. He also managed League of Ireland side Shelbourne from August 1953 to April 1955.<ref name=EFO/>

Career statisticsEdit

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Division	Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
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Plymouth Argyle	1919-20	Southern League	31	7	3	5	0	0	34	12
	1920-21	Third Division South	14	3	0	0	0	0	14	3
	Total		45	10	3	5	0	0	48	15
Bolton Wanderers	1920-21	First Division	19	4	0	0	0	0	19	4
	1921-22	First Division	39	24	2	0	0	0	41	24
	1922-23	First Division	41	11	7	8	0	0	48	19
	1923-24	First Division	39	24	3	3	0	0	42	27
	1924-25	First Division	42	26	3	1	0	0	45	27
	1925-26	First Division	37	14	8	4	0	0	45	18
	1926-27	First Division	38	16	4	1	0	0	42	17
	1927-28	First Division	33	24	2	0	0	0	35	24
	1928-29	First Division	7	1	0	0	0	0	7	1
	Total		295	144	29	17	0	0	324	161
Arsenal	1928-29	First Division	31	25	5	1	0	0	36	26
	1929-30	First Division	33	13	8	3	0	0	41	16
	1930-31	First Division	35	31	3	2	1	1	39	34
	1931-32	First Division	34	21	6	3	1	0	41	24
	1932-33	First Division	34	18	1	0	0	0	35	18
	1933-34	First Division	14	5	2	1	0	0	16	6
	Total		181	113	25	10	2	1	208	124
Career total			521	267	57	32	2	1	580	300