Jack Rowley

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Jack Rowley
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Personnel
Surname John Frederick Rowley
birthday October 7, 1918
place of birth Wolverhampton ,  England
date of death June 28, 1998
Place of death Shaw and Crompton ,  England
size 175 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1935-1936 Cradley Heath FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1936-1937 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic 23 0(11)
1937-1955 Manchester United 380 (184)
1954-1957 Plymouth Argyle 56 0(14)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1948-1952 England 6 00(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1955-1960 Plymouth Argyle
1960-1963 Oldham Athletic
1963-1964 Ajax Amsterdam
1966-1967 Wrexham AFC
1968-1969 Oldham Athletic
1 Only league games are given.

John Frederick "Jack" Rowley (born October 7, 1918 in Wolverhampton , † June 28, 1998 in Shaw and Crompton ) was an English football player and football coach. The national player Rowley, known as a top scorer, won the cup with Manchester United in 1948 and champion in 1952. From his coaching career, the station at Ajax Amsterdam , where he acted in the 1963/64 season, stands out.

Career

player

Rowley joined the second division Manchester United in 1937 after brief stints at Wolverhampton Wanderers and Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic FC in 1937 for £ 3,000 , where he soon became known as The Gunner , the gunners , thanks to his scoring threat. earned.

His first appearance for United made Rowley in October 1937 against Sheffield Wednesday . At the end of the season United rose as second in the table for the first time since 1931 back in the first division. During the war he served with the South Staffordshire Regiment and was involved in the D-Day landing in Normandy. During the war he was also a guest player with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Aldershot, Belfast Distillery , Folkestone, Shrewsbury Town and Tottenham Hotspur .

After the breakout of peace he was back at Manchester United and won the FA Cup 1947/48 under coach Matt Busby , where he scored two goals in a 4-2 final win over Blackpool FC , and the English championship in 1952. He stayed in Manchester through January 1955. For United he scored a total of 211 goals in 424 games, of which 173 goals in 355 first division games. In 1952/53 he was third on the scorers list with 30 goals, behind the Chilean Jorge "George" Robledo and Ronnie Allen with 33 and 32 goals respectively.

Trainer

He then hired himself to the second division side Plymouth Argyle as a player-coach with whom he had to accept relegation in 1956. 1959 succeeded in rising again. From 1960 to 1963 he was a coach at the fourth division Oldham Athletic AFC , who rose in 1963 as second.

In 1963 he succeeded the Austrian Joseph Gruber at the Dutch club AFC Ajax with whom he finished fifth in the league. Rowley was remembered as a "tough dog" and was known for shouting instructions in the field in an unorthodox way. As a result, he had to watch the games from the stands during his last months at Ajax, even though he insisted on going down to the bench and providing instructions to the youth coach Jany van der Veen , who represented him there. His successor was his compatriot Vic Buckingham , who was already on the bench with the Ajacieden from 1959 to 1961. But it was even less successful and they split up after just six months. After that, the era of Rinus Michels began .

1966 to 1967 he was a coach at the fourth division Wrexham AFC . 1965/66 still 24th and thus bottom of the table, the team was seventh in 1967. In 1968/69 he was back with the third division Oldham, who was the last to be relegated. He stayed with the club until December 1969.

After that, he had enough of the unsteady coaching job, but maybe only the offers remained. He finally ran a privately run post office typical of the period in the Shaw district of Oldham with his wife Violet, whom he married in 1942 , where newspapers etc. could also be bought. His brother Arthur (* 1926) was also a feared goalscorer. He played for Fulham FC and Leicester City FC in the first division and is the record holder of the Football League with (across the divisions) 434 goals .

successes

all with Manchester United

  • English champion: 1952
  • English cup winner: 1948

Web links / references

  1. ↑ Trainers> Jack Rowley , AFC Ajax (via archive.org / February 12, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Rowley, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowley, John Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolverhampton
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1998
Place of death Shaw and Crompton