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English footballer
Jack Plant|
Full name |
John Plant[1] |
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Date of birth |
(1871-03-23)23 March 1871 |
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Place of birth |
Bollington, England |
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Date of death |
early 1950 (aged 78) |
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Place of death |
Crewe, England |
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Height |
5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1] |
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Position(s) |
Outside left |
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Denton |
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Bollington |
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Years |
Team |
Apps |
(Gls) |
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1890–1898 |
Bury |
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1898–1899 |
Reading |
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1899–1907 |
Bury |
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1900 |
England |
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(0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
John Plant (23 March 1871 – early 1950) was an English international footballer, who played as an outside left.
Early and personal life
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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]
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
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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]