Len Jackson (soccer player, 1922)

Len Jackson
Personnel
Surname	Leonard Wilfred Jackson
birthday	September 6, 1922
place of birth	Birmingham ,  England
date of death	May 14, 1990
Place of death	Birmingham ,  England
position	defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1945-1948	Birmingham City	0 (0)
1948-1950	Northampton Town	2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Leonard Wilfred "Len" Jackson (born September 6, 1922 in Birmingham , † May 14, 1990 ibid) was an English football player .

Career

Jackson belonged to the squad of the second division Birmingham City after the Second World War , but there the defender was limited to missions in the reserve team. After he had played on May 1, 1948 in a friendly game with the reserve team against the reserve team from Northampton Town (final score 4: 3), he was obliged a few days later by the club playing in the Third Division South ; his counterpart in that game, Jack Southam , followed suit a year later.

For Northampton he came in October 1948 in defense on the side of Bill Barron to two league appearances against FC Aldershot (2-0) and Ipswich Town (1: 1). As a result, coach Tom Smith and his successor Bob Dennison put back on Tom Smalley in the right defender position and Jackson left the club without another competitive appearance in 1950.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hugmansfootballers.com: Profile Len Jackson , accessed June 25, 2020
2. ↑ FRIENDLY MATCH . In: Sports Argus , May 1, 1948, p. 1.  (link subject to charge)
3. ^ F. R: Brown to play for Harborne . In: Birmingham Daily Gazette , May 6, 1948, p. 4.  (paid link)
4. ↑ cf. Frank Grande: Northampton Town FC: The Official Centenary History . Yore Publications, Harefield 1997, ISBN 1-874427-67-4 .
5. ↑ Frank Grande: Northampton Town FC Who's Who: Football League Players 1920 to 2013 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2013, ISBN 978-1-905891-78-8 , pp. 86 .