Glossop (North End)

Glossop North End currently play in the North West Counties League Premier Division. founded in 1886, they played in the Combination and Midlands League before joining the Football League in 1898–99. 
They were promoted to Division One after just one season, but lasted just one season in the top flight.
On being promoted they dropped the North End from their name. Glossop is the smallest town ever to boast a league club. A remarkable statistic is that the population of the town in the 1910s was about 21,000- and in 1914 10,700 turned up at North Road to see an FA cup tie against Preston North End. 
The club were financed by local cotton magnate and Member of Parliament, Samuel Hill-Wood.



Among the big names to turn out for the club were John Goodall (34 games 1900-03) , Fred Spiksley (5 games 1904-05), Archie Goodall (30 games 1904-05) and Bob Jack (64 games, 1902-03).

season	League	FA Cup
1898-99	Div.2 2nd	R1	Promoted as runners up
1899-1900	Div.1 18th	Q3	Finished bottom, 9 points adrift, with only 4 wins
1900-01	Div.2 5th	IR
1901-02	Div.2 8th	R1
1902-03	Div.2 11th	R1
1903-04	Div.2 17th
1904-05	Div.2 12th	Q4
1905-06	Div.2 16th	Q4
1906-07	Div.2 15th	R1
1907-08	Div.2 17th	R4
1908-09	Div.2 8th	R4
1909-10	Div.2 6th	R1
1910-11	Div.2  14th	R1
1911-12	Div.2 18th	R1
1912-13	Div.2 18th	R1
1913-14	Div.2  17th	R2
1914-15	Div.2  20th	R1	A goal difference of -56 and just 6 wins saw Glossop finish bottom and fail to be re elected.

Here are the club colours...

Jack Leslie

...known throughout England for his skill and complexion.
The Herald (1930)

They must have forgotten I was a coloured boy. They found out I was a darkie and I suppose that was like finding out I was foreign.
Jack Leslie

In the 1920s manager  Bob Jack  assembled a potent team at Plymouth Argyle.  Argyle finished second in the Third Division (South) for 6 seasons in a row,eventually making it into the Second Division for the 1930–31 season. A key member of the team was Jack Leslie, a Londoner of Jamaican descent. Leslie was at Argyle, his only senior  club, from 1921–1935. During this time he scored 137 goals in 401 appearances.

Bob Jack was informed by the Football Association that Leslie had been selected for England. The FA then decided that Leslie wouldn't be capped after all, as he was (as they put it) a man of colour. 
Shame on the Football Association.

The Jacks

This has got nothing to do with Swansea Town (or City)...

David Jack took a look at the masses of people covering the Wembley pitch on 28th April 1923 and said to his father 'If I don't get a goal in the first five minutes I'm coming off...' 
He got one in the 3rd minute. The first goal ever scored at Wembley. So every football lover should know the name of David Jack.
He was , however, part of a footballing family that shows us a great deal about the game's development in the first part of the 20th century.

Bob Jack

David's father, Bob Jack, was a Scotsman. An outside right, he started playing for Alloa Athletic as a 15 year old. Like many Scottish professionals at the time he moved to England, where he played for Bolton Wanderers and Preston North End before stepping down in class to turn out for Glossop, Plymouth Argyle and Southend United.
He had moved into management whilst still at Argyle (joining them in 1903 he became player manager in 1905) and was player manager during his 4 year stint with Southend (1906-10). On retiring as a player he returned to Plymouth, where he was in charge for 28 years (for a total of 1,093 games). In later life he carried out scouting duties for Southend (when David was managing them).

Bob Jack had three grandly named sons who were all footballers:

David Bone Nightingale Jack was one of the most well known footballers of his era.

An inside forward, he began his career at Plymouth Argyle when his father was the manager. After just one season he moved to Bolton Wanderers in 1920.  He was the club's top scorer for five of the eight seasons he was there, scoring 144 goals in 295 league matches. In 1928 Bolton were facing financial problems. David Jack then became the world's most expensive footballer when Herbert Chapman paid  £10,890  to take him to Arsenal (the previous world record was £6,550).

Rollo

Robert Rollo Jack was an inside right. 3 years younger than David, he began his career with Plymouth Argyle at the age of 20. Having made 15 league appearances he was sold to Bolton Wanderers (where he joined David) for £1500. Rollo was a fringe player at Bolton, and in six seasons  he only made 29 League appearances. In 1929 Rollo joined Clapton Orient and was a regular for 3 seasons. He drifted into non league football before joining Swindon Town in 1934. 


Donald Atrill Jack. Donald didn't reach the level of accomplishment achieved by his brothers. He was a reserve player with Argyle, also turning out for Torquay United.  He joined Bolton Wanderers in 1922, but only played for the reserves. He also served Bradford City, but was not a first team player. 

After giving up football to pursue a career in accountancy Donald played as an  amateur with Finchley.