John Allan (soccer player, 1931)

Jack Allan
Personnel
Surname	John Allan
birthday	September 26, 1931
place of birth	Amble ,  England
date of death	February 2013
Place of death	Luton ,  England
position	goal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Amble Welfare
1949-1953	Barnsley FC	11 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

John "Jack" Allan (born September 26, 1931 in Amble , † February 2013 in Luton ) was an English football player . The goalkeeper made eleven league appearances for Barnsley FC in the early 1950s .

Career

Allan came in January 1949 by the local club Amble Welfare for Barnsley FC in the Football League Second Division . There he was third goalkeeper behind Harry Hough and Jack Walls and therefore mostly played for the A 'team, the club's third team, in the Yorkshire Football League . Allan first came to a number of appearances for the first team in March 1952, when he guarded the gate in six games in a row, only against Leicester City succeeded in a win. In September / October 1952 he completed another five games, with four defeats and one draw in the end. Only a short time later, Allan was put on the transfer list at his own request, but by May 1953 no buyer had been found. The 1952/53 season was disastrous for Barnsley: Coach Angus Seed died in February 1953 of chronic bronchitis; the team rose as a knocked-off bottom of the table in the Third Division North . Allan was not signed any further beyond the end of the season, subsequent club stations are not known.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ barryhugmansfootballers.com: John Allan , accessed June 29, 2020
2. ^ ^{A b} Grenville Firth, David Wood: The Who's Who of Barnsley FC . DB Publishing, Derby 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-842-6 , pp. 14 .
3. ↑ Quixall rested . In: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer , November 14, 1952, p. 6.  (paid link)
4. ↑ 7 Barnsley Players for Transfer . In: Star Green 'un , May 2, 1953, p. 12.  (link subject to charge)