Jack Peart

Jack Peart

Personal information
Full name	John George Peart
Date of birth	3 October 1888(1888-10-03)
Place of birth	South Shields, England
Date of death	3 September 1948(1948-09-03) (aged 59)
Place of death	Paddington, England
Playing position	Centre-forward
Youth career
	Adelaide South Shields
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1907–1909	Sheffield United	27	(8)
1909–1912	Stoke	44	(38)
1912–1913	Newcastle United	17	(6)
1913–1919	Notts County	82	(51)
	→ Rochdale (guest)
	→ Barnsley (guest)
	Leeds City
1919	Birmingham	3	(0)
1919–1920	Derby County	9	(1)
1920–1922	Ebbw Vale Steel & Iron Company
1922	Port Vale	7	(0)
1922–1923	Norwich City	21	(7)
1923–1924	Rochdale	21	(10)
Total		231+	(121+)
Teams managed
1920–1922	Ebbw Vale Steel & Iron Company (player-manager)
1923–1930	Rochdale
1930–1935	Bradford City
1935–1948	Fulham
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

John George "Jack" Peart (3 October 1888 – 3 September 1948) was an English footballer who played centre forward for 13 different teams, in a career which spanned the First World War. After he retired he became a football manager until his death in 1948.

Playing career

Peart was a centre forward who had a nomadic career. He played for eight league clubs in a career which spanned 19 years and every division of the Football League. He also played non-league football in the Southern and Welsh leagues, as well as guesting for other clubs during the First World War. Peart was known as the 'most injured man in football', which included a broken leg in 1910 at Sheffield United keeping him out of football for two seasons.

He left Adelaide South Shields to sign with First Division Sheffield United in 1907. Eight goals in 27 league appearances preceded a move to Stoke in the Birmingham & District League two years later.

He left the Potteries in 1912 to return to top-flight football with Newcastle United, signing for a fee of £600. Peart made 17 competitive appearances for Newcastle, all in the Football League, comprising 9 in 1911–12 and 8 in 1912–13, and scored three goals in each of those seasons. His first appearance for the club came on 16 March 1912 against Middlesbrough, and he scored his first goal the following week against Notts County.

The next year he dropped down to the with Second Division Notts County. His time at County spanned the Great War. In his six years with the club he scored 51 goals in 82 league appearances. During the war he also guested for Rochdale and Barnsley.

After a time with Leeds City, he joined Birmingham in 1919, before moving on to Derby County later in the year. In 1920 he joined Ebbw Vale Steel & Iron Company as player-manager, though he resigned his post in January 1922, returning to the English Second Division with Port Vale. Injury limited his contribution to the Vale's 1921–22 campaign to just seven appearances and he was released upon its conclusion.

At 34 years old, Peart joined Norwich City in the Third Division South for the 1922–23 season. He was appointed player-manager of Rochdale in March 1923, retiring as a player in the 1923–24 season with a Rochdale tally of 10 goals in 22 senior games.

Management career

Peart spent a short period as player-manager at Ebbw Vale before managing Rochdale from 1923 to 1930. He left Rochdale to become manager of Bradford City, taking over from the club's most successful manager, Peter O'Rourke, in July 1930. During his five years at Valley Parade he maintained the club's position in Division Two but he had offered to resign at the end of 1933–34 before agreeing to see out the final two years of his contract.

In 1935, he joined Fulham as manager, where he remained until his death in September 1948, a month before his 60th birthday. The team he built went on to win the Division Two championship in the same season.

External links

• Jack Peart management career stats at Soccerbase