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| Date of birth | (1878-02-15)15 February 1878 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Hereford, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 28 January 1938(1938-01-28) (aged 59) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Liverpool, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Outside-right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1897–1899 | Aston Villa[1] | 23[1] | (15) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1899–1910 | Everton | 342 | (76) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1903–1905 | England | 2 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Sharp (15 February 1878 – 28 January 1938) was an English sportsman who is most famous for his eleven-season playing career atEverton from 1899 to 1910. It saw him win two caps for his country, as well as being acricketer forLancashire County Cricket Club who played in threeTest matches for theEngland cricket team in 1909.
From 1899 to 1914 Sharp played cricket regularly for Lancashire and played in every match of 1904 when the Championship was won without a defeat. AfterWorld War I he played as an amateur and captained the Lancashire side from 1923 to 1925.
His position on the football pitch was right winger. After being signed fromAston Villa Sharp went on to be a Championship runner-up on three occasions with Everton, scored a goal in the club's 2–1 defeat toSheffield Wednesday in the1907 FA Cup Final and was anFA Cup winner one year previously againstNewcastle United.[2] His portrait appeared on 14 editions of cigarette packets, the mark of a popular sportsman at the time.
When his playing career ended, Sharp became a director of Everton, a position he held for many years. He started a sports shop in Whitechapel Liverpool, which existed until the 1980s before being taken over byJJB Sports and later closed. There was also a shop in Chester, within the Grosvenor Precinct. His shop was the official supplier of playing strips to bothEverton andLiverpool for many years.
His brother,Bertram, was also a footballer with Aston Villa, Everton andSouthampton who later became a director of Everton as well as a cricketer withHerefordshire County Cricket Club.[3]
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| Preceded by | Everton captain 1908–1910 | Succeeded by |