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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Bone Nightingale Jack[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1898-04-03)3 April 1898[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Bolton,Lancashire, England | ||
| Date of death | 10 September 1958(1958-09-10) (aged 60)[1] | ||
| Place of death | Lambeth, London, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft10+1⁄2 in (1.79 m)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Inside forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1919–1920 | Plymouth Argyle | 45 | (10) |
| 1920–1928 | Bolton Wanderers | 295 | (144) |
| 1928–1934 | Arsenal | 208 | (124) |
| Total | 521 | (267) | |
| International career | |||
| 1924–1932 | England | 9 | (3) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1934–1940 | Southend United | ||
| 1944–1952 | Middlesbrough | ||
| 1953–1955 | Shelbourne | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
David Bone Nightingale Jack (3 April 1898 – 10 September 1958) was an Englishfootballer who played as aninside forward. He scored 267 goals from 490 appearances inthe Football League playing forPlymouth Argyle,Bolton Wanderers andArsenal. He was the first footballer to be transferred for a fee in excess of £10,000, was the first to score atWembley – in the1923 FA Cup Final – and was capped nine times forEngland. After retiring as a player, he managedSouthend United,Middlesbrough andShelbourne.
Jack was born inBolton,Lancashire, in 1898, the son of Scottish footballerBob Jack and his wife Georgina Nightingale.[1] He had two brothers,Rollo and Donald, who also played football.[1][2]
Jack was married to Kathleen.[1] Their son, also named David, became a journalist and writer who chaired both theFootball Writers' Association and its Australian counterpart, the Australian Soccer Press Association.[3] Jack died inSt Thomas' Hospital, London, in 1958 at the age of 60.[4]
He served in theRoyal Navy during the First World War.[5]
Aninside forward, Jack started his senior career with his father's club,Plymouth Argyle, after the war. He played in theSouthern League in1919–20, and was a member of Plymouth's team for their first match in the newly formedFootball League Third Division in1920–21. He scored 15 goals in 48 appearances in all competitions.[6] In late 1920 he returned to the town of his birth, signing forBolton Wanderers for a fee of £3,500. He spent eight seasons with the Trotters, forming a formidable partnership withJoe Smith, and between them they scored more than 300 goals.[7] While with Bolton, he made history by being the first person to score a goal atWembley Stadium, in the1923 FA Cup Final; Bolton won 2–0 and Jack earned his first medal.[8]
A year later, he won his firstEngland cap, in a 2–1 defeat againstWales on 3 March 1924. In eight years he played nine times for his country – four times as captain – and scored three goals.[1] He continued to have success with Bolton, winning the FA Cup again in1925–26, scoring the only goal in a 1–0 win overManchester City.[8] He was the club's top scorer for five of the eight seasons he was there, scoring 144 goals in 295 league matches.[9][1] As of 2017[update], he remains Bolton's third highest goalscorer of all time, with 161 goals from 324 senior matches.[10]
In 1928, with Bolton in financial trouble,Herbert Chapman'sArsenal made Jack the first five-digit signing in world football, almost doublethe previous record; the final fee paid was £10,647 10 shillings.[11] According toBob Wall, Chapman negotiated the transfer with Bolton's representatives in a hotel bar, his tactic being to drinkgin 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.[12]
Intended as a replacement for retired captainCharlie Buchan, Jack was a success atHighbury.[13] He made his debut againstNewcastle United on 20 October 1928,[14] and became a regular straight away. He was the club's top scorer for the1928–29 season.[15] Although less prolific than centre-forwardJack Lambert, he still scored important goals, including the one in the1929–30 FA Cup semi-final againstHull City which sent Arsenal through tothe final[14] in which Arsenal beatHuddersfield Town 2–0 and Jack became the first player to win the Cup at Wembley with two different clubs.[15] He played in Arsenal's 2–1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday in theCharity Shield atStamford Bridge in October 1930.[16]
Jack continued to feature for Arsenal through the early 1930s, recording a personal best of 34 goals in theirFirst Division-winning season of1930–31. He won two more titles in1932–33 and1933–34.[15] By the time of the latter he was in his mid-30s and reaching the end of his career;[15] competition for his place from new signingRay Bowden meant Jack played only 16 matches that season.[6][14] He retired soon after winning his third league medal, in May 1934.[15] Altogether he scored 124 times in 208 matches for Arsenal, making him, as of 2017[update] the tenth-highest goalscorer in the club's history.[17]
He is one of only three players to score more than 100English top-flight league goals for two different clubs, along withJimmy Greaves andAlan Shearer.
After retiring from playing, Jack went on to manageSouthend United from May 1934 to August 1940 and thenMiddlesbrough from November 1944 to April 1952. He also managedLeague of Ireland sideShelbourne from August 1953 to April 1955.[1]
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Charity Shield | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| 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 | ||
Professionals
Bolton Wanderers
Arsenal[1]
Citations
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