Jack Swann

John William "Jack" Swann (* 3. April 1882 in Broughton , City of Salford ; † 11. February 1938 in Manchester ) was an English amateur - Athletes . He appeared as a football , table tennis and water polo player .

Football career

Jack Swann
Personnel
Surname	John William Swann
birthday	April 3, 1882
place of birth	Broughton ,  England
date of death	February 11, 1938
Place of death	Manchester ,  England
position	goal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Northern Nomads
1909-1911	Manchester City	1 (0)
1915	Rochdale AFC	6 (0)
1919-1922	Manchester United	0 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Swann, who worked as a billing clerk, played as a goalkeeper mainly for the amateur club Northern Nomads based in the Greater Manchester area . In May 1910 he took part with the team in an international tournament in Belgium, which was held on the occasion of the world exhibition taking place there . With victories over the Daring Club de Bruxelles , HVV Den Haag and Union Saint-Gilloise , the eight-team tournament was won.

Occasionally Swann, who was allowed to play as an amateur athlete for several clubs at the same time, also played for the reserve team of Manchester City , for the first time in March 1904. In September 1909 he played a friendly game with the Nomads against Manchester City (final score 1: 2), where he was the outstanding player of his team should have been. After a short-term injury-related failure of Manchester City goalkeeper Jack Lyall , he represented this in October 1909 in a game in the Football League Second Division at Stockport County . The press praised his performance in the 2-1 victory, the Athletic News noted : "City could only thank Swann for not being further behind at halftime" and attested that he was "very safe" in guarding his goal . In the following season he was registered as a backup of Manchester City in the Football League , but did not make any further competitive appearances for the first team, for City's reserve team he last appeared in the 1911/12 season.

In April 1915 Swann was active for the first time for Rochdale AFC , and played six games in the Central Football League for the club by the end of the season , after the cessation of regular play in the summer of 1915 due to the First World War , he played two more games in December as a substitute competition organized Lancashire Section of the Football League . From the spring of 1916 he played repeatedly for Manchester United in the substitute competitions, parallel to his appearances for United Swann was also in goal several times for Liverpool FC from autumn 1916 , including a win in front of 23,000 spectators against local rivals Everton . An ankle injury in early 1917 put an end to this. Swann was still registered as a player with Manchester United until April 1922, but he did not come to another use after his injury.

Water polo

Swann was also active in water polo as a goalkeeper. In this sport he first appeared for the Salford Swimming Club from 1902 at the latest , and from 1910 he guarded the gate for Hyde Seal . As early as 1906 he played as a player from Salford in a selection game of the Lancashire County Water Polo and Swimming Association , in 1909 he played for a selection from Manchester and District against North-East Lancashire . From 1911 to 1913 Swann won the English water polo championship three times in a row with Hyde Seal. In 1911 the team beat Wigan 7: 6, 1912 Horsey 8: 2 and in 1913 Wigan again 4: 1. In a match report from the final victory in 1913, he is attested “to have had the gift of being where he was needed every time” and “Swann was intelligent in goal, his saves in the first half were quick and precise. In the second half he was as good as unemployed. "

Table tennis

When table tennis became more popular in the British Isles in the early 1920s , Swann also successfully practiced this sport and subsequently also took on official duties there.

In March 1923 he was on the side of England in the first international match against Wales and contributed with a score of 7: 1 to the 52:12 success. In the spring of 1928 he played with a selection from Manchester against a Hungarian touring team ( Zoltán Mechlovits , László Bellák , Dániel Pécsi and Sándor Glancz ), which had dominated the World Championships in London in 1926 and in Stockholm in 1928. To great jubilation, Swann, who represented the Adelphi Table Tennis Club , achieved the only success of the local selection in the last game against Glancz.

When the Manchester League was founded in 1927, he was appointed to the league committee and, as a representative of Manchester, was a member of the executive committee of the English Table Tennis Association until his death . At the national association he was also part of the selection committee that nominated the players for country comparisons until 1937.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Table Tennis Loss . In: Sheffield Independent , February 15, 1938, p. 6.  (paid link)
2. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on November 11, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} Steven Phillipps: Rochdale AFC Who's Who 1907-1939 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2013, ISBN 978-1-905891-64-1 , pp. 42 .
4. ↑ NORTHERN NOMADS FC . In: The Sportsman , May 5, 1910, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
5. ↑ rsssf.com: Tournoi International de l'Exposition de Bruxelles in 1910 , accessed on November 18, 2018
6. ↑ ^{a b} Ian Penney: THE CITY ALPHABET: A Complete Who's Who of Manchester City . EJ Morten Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-0-85972-055-7 , pp. 277 .
7. ↑ NORTHERN NOMADS 'GOOD DISPLAY. . In: Athletic News , September 6, 1909, p. 3.  (link subject to charge)
8. ↑ ORDERED OFF AT STOCKPORT. . In: Athletic News , October 18, 1909, p. 3.  (link with costs)
9. ↑ MANCHESTER CITY. . In: Athletic News , August 29, 1910, p. 5.  (link with costs)
10. ↑ SWANN IN GOAL. WELL-KNOWN AMATEUR PLAYS FOR ROCHDALE. . In: Rochdale Observer , April 7, 1915, p. 4.  (link subject to charge)
11. ↑ cf. Steven Phillipps: Rochdale AFC: The Official History 1907-2001 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2001, ISBN 978-1-874427-09-4 , pp. 186 f .
12. ↑ FOOTBALL ITEMS. . In: Sheffield Independent , March 11, 1916, p. 8.  (paid link)
13. ^ Thrills at Liverpool. . In: Star Green 'un , December 2, 1916, p. 4.  (link subject to charge)
14. ↑ Swann Injured. . In: Star Green 'un , January 20, 1917, p. 2.  (link with costs)
15. ↑ Paul Nagel, Charbel Boujaoude: Manchester United Match2Match: The War Years 1 . Octen Media, Stockton-on-Tees 2014, ISBN 978-1-909064-05-8 , pp. 233 .
16. ↑ WATER POLO. SALFORD v. BOLTON BRDIGEMAN. . In: Bolton Evening News , August 26, 1902, p. 2.  (paid link)
17. ↑ THE WATER WORLD. JW SWANN, Hyde Seal. . In: Athletic News , July 11, 1910, p. 3.  (link subject to charge)
18. ↑ SWIMMING. . In: Burnley Express , June 16, 1906, p. 6.  (paid link)
19. ↑ WATER POLO TRIAL MATCH. . In: Northern Daily Telegraph , June 7, 1909, p. 3.  (paid link)
20. ↑ WATER POLO. ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP. DECIDED IN BRISTOL. . In: Western Daily Press , September 29, 1911, p. 9.  (link subject to charge)
21. ↑ ENGLISH WATER POLO CHAMPIONSHIP. HYDE SEAL v. HORNSEY. . In: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer , October 8, 1912, p. 14.  (paid link)
22. ↑ SWIMMING AND WATER POLO. ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP. HYDE SEAL DEFEAT WIGAN. . In: Wigan Observer and District Advertiser , September 23, 1913, p. 3.  (link subject to charge)
23. ↑ SWIMMING AND WATER POLO. ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP. WIGAN SUCCUMB TO HYDE SEAL. . In: Wigan Observer and District Advertiser , September 27, 1913, p. 11.  (paid link)
24. ↑ International Table Tennis. . In: Pall Mall Gazette , March 5, 1923, p. 13.  (paid link)
25. ^ Graham Trimming: England's First International Team . In: The Table Tennis Collector . No. 9 , October 1995, p. 4 ( cloudfront.net [PDF]).
26. ↑ TABLE TENNIS. . In: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette , April 19, 1928, p. 3.  (paid link)
27. ↑ TABLE TENNIS. . In: Nelson Leader , February 1, 1929, p. 7.  (paid link)
28. ↑ JB: In Memoriam, Mr. JW Swann . In: Table Tennis . Vol. III, No. 6 , 1938, pp. 6 ( tabletennisengland.co.uk [PDF]).