Jack Plant

John Plant (23 March 1871 – early 1950) was an English international footballer, who played as an outside left.

Jack Plant
Personal information
Full name John Plant[1]
Date of birth (1871-03-23)23 March 1871
Place of birth Bollington, England
Date of death early 1950 (aged 78)
Place of death Crewe, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1]
Position(s) Outside left
Youth career
Denton
Bollington
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1890–1898 Bury
1898–1899 Reading
1899–1907 Bury
International career
1900 England 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Early and personal life

Plant was born in Bollington, Cheshire on 23 March 1871.[1] He was the eldest of four children.[1] He worked as a labourer in an iron foundry.[1] He married and had two daughters.[1]

Career

Plant spent his early career playing with local clubs Denton and Bollington.[1] He signed for Bury in 1890, and won the Football League Division Two title with Bury in 1894–95.[1] He spent the 1898–99 season with Reading, before returning to Bury, where he finished his career in 1907.[1] He was a member of Bury's FA Cup-winning teams in 1900 and 1903, scoring a goal in both finals.[1][2]

He earned one cap for England in 1900.[1][3]

Later life and death

By 1911 he was working as a labourer in a cotton mill.[1] By 1939 he was a retired widower.[1] He died in early 1950, aged 78.[1]

References
  1. "England Players - John Plant". www.englandfootballonline.com.
  2. "1900 & 1903 FA Cup Winners". Bury, Greater Manchester: Bury Football Club. Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  3. John Plant at Englandstats.com, Retrieved 24 September 2018


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