Jack Plant | |
Fullname: | John Plant[1] |
Birth Date: | 23 March 1871 |
Birth Place: | Bollington, England |
Death Date: | early 1950 (aged 78) |
Death Place: | Crewe, England |
Position: | Outside left |
Youthclubs1: | Denton |
Youthclubs2: | Bollington |
Years1: | 1890–1898 |
Clubs1: | Bury |
Years2: | 1898–1899 |
Clubs2: | Reading |
Years3: | 1899–1907 |
Clubs3: | Bury |
Nationalyears1: | 1900 |
Nationalteam1: | England |
Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
John Plant (23 March 1871 – early 1950) was an English international footballer, who played as an outside left.
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]
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]