John Dick (soccer player, 1930)
| John Dick | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | March 19, 1930 | |
| place of birth | Govan , Scotland | |
| date of death | September 2000 | |
| position | Half-forward (left) | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Maryhill Harp | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| Maryhill Harp | ||
| Crittall Athletic | ||
| 1953-1962 | West Ham United | 326 (153) |
| 1962-1965 | Brentford FC | 72 (45) |
| 1965– | Gravesend & Northfleet | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1950 | Scotland youth | 1 (0) |
| 1954 | Scotland B | 1 (0) |
| 1959 | Scotland | 1 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
John Dick , nickname Jackson or Johnny , (born March 19, 1930 in Govan , Glasgow , † September 2000 ) was a Scottish football player . Dick was one of the best scorer in the history of the London club West Ham United , for whom he scored 166 competitive goals between 1953 and 1962.
Club career
John Dick played with Maryhill Harp in his native Glasgow and trained as a machinist before he was stationed in Colchester , England in 1950 during his military service . There he joined the amateur club Crittall Athletic and caused interest in several professional clubs with his performances. West Ham United manager Ted Fenton finally secured the services of the left - wing striker just before local rivals Tottenham Hotspur wanted to sign Dick. Dick made his professional debut in the Second Division on August 19, 1953 in a 5-0 home win at the start of the season against Lincoln City FC , his first goal he scored in his 13th mission, a 2-1 defeat at Derby County . Dick established himself in the following seasons as a regular goalscorer at West Ham, but only the commitment of the center forward Vic Keeble in October 1957 ensured promotion ambitions after 26 years of abstinence from the first division. The interaction between Keeble and Dick worked perfectly from the start, at the end of the season they had both scored 40 of West Ham's 101 goals of the season when they returned to the First Division as second division champions . The first first division season 1958/59 West Ham finished in 6th place in the table, Dick contributed with 27 goals as the team's top scorer and topped his goal record of 26 goals from the 1954/55 season. In the following years he occasionally acted as captain, in 1961/62 he took second place in the election for internal club player of the year. At the time of his departure, a new generation of players came to West Ham around the later world champions of 1966, Bobby Moore , Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst ; with 166 competitive goals in 351 appearances, he is behind Vic Watson (326) and Geoff Hurst (252) together with Jimmy Ruffell, the third best goalscorer in the history of West Ham United.
In September 1962 Dick moved to the fourth division for £ 17,500 transfer fee to Brentford FC , which he helped in its first season with 23 goals to the league championship and promotion to the third division . In 1965 he finished his professional career and let his career in the Southern League end with Gravesend & Northfleet . After his active career, he worked in the youth division of West Ham United in the early 1970s; His full-time job, like his former teammate Lawrie Leslie , was employed by the Inner London Education Authority . He died in September 2000.
National team
Dick played once for the Scottish youth team as early as 1950, and in 1954 he joined the Scottish B national team in a 1-1 draw with the English B selection. For his only appearance in the senior team of Scotland Dick came on April 11, 1959 against England as part of the British Home Championship in front of almost 100,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium . Scotland's strikers in this game consisted of Graham Leggat , Bobby Collins , David Herd , John Dick and Willie Ormond , Dick himself later described his appearance in the 1-0 defeat as "one of the worst performances of my career".
successes
- Second Division Champion: 1957/58
- Fourth Division Champion: 1962/63
literature
- Tony Hogg: Who's Who of West Ham United . Profile Sports Media, London 2005, ISBN 1-903135-50-8 , pp. 66 .
- John Northcutt, Roy Shoesmith: West Ham United - A Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 1987, ISBN 0-907969-29-1 , pp. 356 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ guardian.co.uk: The match of my day: John Dick (Nov. 13, 1999)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dick, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scottish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Govan |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2000 |