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Jack Thorogood

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Jack Thorogood
Personal information
Full name Jack Thorogood[1]
Date of birth (1911-04-04)4 April 1911
Place of birth Dinnington, England
Date of death 1970 (aged 59)
Place of death Bridlington, England
Height 5 ft 6+14 in (1.68 m)[2]
Position(s) Outside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19??–1930 Frickley Colliery
1930–1934 Birmingham 23 (2)
1934–1939 Millwall 75 (24)
1939 Doncaster Rovers 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jack Thorogood (4 April 1911 – 1970) was an English professional footballer who scored 26 goals in 98 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham and Millwall.[1] He played as an outside left.

Life and career

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Thorogood was born in Dinnington, Yorkshire. He began his football career with Frickley Colliery before joining Birmingham of the Football League First Division in November 1930.[3] He made his debut on 6 December 1930 in a 2–0 win at home to Huddersfield Town, but was unable to dislodge Ernie Curtis from the starting eleven. Even when Curtis left, Thorogood failed to impose himself,[4] and in the 1934 close season he moved to Millwall, where he benefited from regular football to score at a rate of a goal every three games.[3] He scored Millwall's 1000th Football League goal, against Gillingham in 1935–36, and was part of their giant-killing FA Cup team the following season.[5] He signed for Doncaster Rovers shortly before the Second World War, and made guest appearances for several clubs during the war.[3]

After retiring from football Thorogood took up tennis. He won the Doncaster Tennis Cup at least twice and played in the Yorkshire Lawn Tennis Championships.[5]

Thorogood died in Bridlington, Yorkshire, in 1970 at the age of 59.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 259. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  2. ^ "Bright outlooks at Villa Park and St. Andrew's. Birmingham". Evening Despatch. Birmingham. 17 August 1933. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b c d Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  4. ^ Matthews, pp. 173–76.
  5. ^ a b "Jack of all trades and thoroughly good". Frickley Athletic Museum. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2014.