Jack Plant

John Plant (23 March 1871 – early 1950) was an English international footballer, who played as an outside left.

Jack Plant

Personal information
Full name	John Plant[1]
Date of birth	(1871-03-23)23 March 1871
Place of birth	Bollington, England
Date of death	early 1950 (aged 78)
Place of death	Crewe, England
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1]
Position(s)	Outside left
Youth career
	Denton
	Bollington
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1890–1898	Bury
1898–1899	Reading
1899–1907	Bury
International career
1900	England	1	(0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Early and personal life

Plant was born in Bollington, Cheshire on 23 March 1871.^[1] He was the eldest of four children.^[1] He worked as a labourer in an iron foundry.^[1] He married and had two daughters.^[1]

Career

Plant spent his early career playing with local clubs Denton and Bollington.^[1] He signed for Bury in 1890, and won the Football League Division Two title with Bury in 1894–95.^[1] He spent the 1898–99 season with Reading, before returning to Bury, where he finished his career in 1907.^[1] He was a member of Bury's FA Cup-winning teams in 1900 and 1903, scoring a goal in both finals.^[1][2]

He earned one cap for England in 1900.^[1][3]

Later life and death

By 1911 he was working as a labourer in a cotton mill.^[1] By 1939 he was a retired widower.^[1] He died in early 1950, aged 78.^[1]