Jocky Wright
Personal information | |||
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Full name | John Wright[1] | ||
Date of birth | 4 February 1873 | ||
Place of birth | Hamilton, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 1946 (aged 72–73) | ||
Place of death | Southend-on-Sea, England | ||
Position(s) | Inside forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1892–1893 | Hamilton Academical | ||
1893–1894 | Motherwell | 7 | (1) |
1894 | Hamilton Academical | ||
1894–1895 | Clyde | 18 | (4) |
1895–1898 | Bolton Wanderers | 85 | (14) |
1898–1902 | The Wednesday | 103 | (42) |
1902 | Hamilton Academical | 3 | (1) |
1902–1904 | Bolton Wanderers | 34 | (5) |
1904–1907 | Plymouth Argyle | 107 | (17) |
1907–1908 | Watford | 27 | (0) |
1908–1910 | Southend United | 56 | (10) |
Total | 440 | (94) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
John Wright (4 February 1873 – 1946) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers and The Wednesday, and the Southern League for Plymouth Argyle, Watford and Southend United.[2][3] He was an inside forward.[1]
Career
Wright was born in Hamilton.[1][3] He began his career with Hamilton Academical[4] and played for Motherwell during their first Scottish Football League campaign[5] before returning to Hamilton (who had yet to join the SFL).[3] He then moved to Clyde, where he made 18 league appearances and scored four goals.[3][6]
Wright switched to English football when he joined Bolton Wanderers in June 1895, and played regularly in his first three seasons with the club.[3] He was transferred to The Wednesday in November 1898 having scored 14 league goals in 85 games for Bolton.[2][3] In his second season with Wednesday (1899–1900), Wright was the club's leading goalscorer and received a Football League Second Division winner's medal.[3] He scored 42 goals in 103 league appearances for Wednesday[1][2] (and 110 and 43 including FA Cup ties).[7]
He returned to Hamilton in September 1902[4] and then re-signed with Bolton the following month.[3] In two more seasons with the club, Wright played in 34 league games and scored five times.[1] Wright left the club in May 1904 and joined Plymouth Argyle,[2][8] where he won the Western League First Division title in his second season.[2] A club handbook states that Wright was "always clever, frequently brilliant and has never been known to play a bad game."[2] He made 110 appearances for Argyle in all competitions and scored 17 goals before moving to Watford in May 1907.[2][3] Wright played in 27 league games without scoring and then joined Southend United in May 1908.[3]
In two seasons with Southend, he scored ten goals in 56 league appearances.[3] Wright became the club's reserve team trainer in 1913 and went on to coach in the local area.[3] Wright died in Southend-on-Sea in 1946.[3]
Personal life
He had two sons who were also footballers: Billy Wright played for Bolton and for Reading;[9] Doug Wright played mainly for Newcastle United and Lincoln City, and was capped by England in 1938.[4][10]
Honours
See also
- List of Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
- List of Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
- List of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
References
- ^ a b c d e Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 289. ISBN 1-899468-67-6.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Jocky Wright". Greens on Screen. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "John Wright" (PDF). Watford F.C. Archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ^ a b c Wright, John (1902), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
- ^ John Wright MotherWELLnet
- ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
- ^ John Wright, The Sheffield Wednesday Archive
- ^ "History: 1900–1919". Bolton Wanderers F.C. Archived from the original on 21 June 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ^ Wright Billy Image 1 Bolton 1931, Vintage Footballers
- ^ Wright, John (1943), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
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