Jack Lane
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John William Lane[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 29 May 1898[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Cradley Heath, England[2] | ||
| Date of death | June 1984 (aged 86)[3] | ||
| Place of death | Hammersmith, England[3] | ||
| Playing position | Inside forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Cradley Heath | |||
| 1920–1923 | Burnley | 5 | (0) |
| 1923–1925 | Chesterfield | 65 | (19) |
| 1925–1931 | Brentford | 215 | (74) |
| 1931–1932 | Crystal Palace | 34 | (10) |
| 1932–1933 | Aldershot | 36 | (8) |
| Total | 355 | (111) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
John William "Jack" Lane (29 May 1898 – June 1984) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside right.[1] He is best remembered for his five years in the Football League with Brentford, for whom he made 234 appearances and was club captain. He was posthumously inducted into the Brentford Hall of Fame in 2015.[4]
Club career
Burnley
An inside forward, Lane began his career at hometown non-league club Cradley Heath.[2] He secured a move to the top flight of English football with Burnley in December 1920 and made his professional debut during the club's Championship-winning 1920–21 season.[1] He failed to make an impression at Turf Moor and departed in 1923, having made just five league appearances for the Clarets.
Chesterfield
Lane dropped down to the Division Three North to sign for Chesterfield in 1923.[1] The Spireites pushed hard for promotion during his time with the club, but he departed in March 1925.[1] Lane made 65 league appearances and scored 19 goals during his time at Saltergate.[2]
Brentford
Lane signed for Division Three South strugglers Brentford in March 1925.[1] He got off to a good start at Griffin Park, scoring on his debut versus Swansea Town and scoring a further three goals in his final eight appearances of the season.[5] He established himself as a first team regular in the following season, making 40 appearances and scoring 9 goals.[5] The arrival of Harry Curtis as manager in 1926 saw Lane appointed as captain and was he was an automatic pick when fit. His final two seasons were his best at Griffin Park, scoring 19 goals in each of the 1929–30 and 1930–31 seasons.[5] As a recognition of his service to the club, Lane was awarded the proceeds from a London Combination match versus Southampton in 1930.[1] He departed the Bees in January 1931, having amassed 234 appearances and 86 goals during just under six years at Griffin Park.[1]
Crystal Palace
Lane joined Division Three South side Crystal Palace in January 1931.[6] As with his time at Brentford, he narrowly missed out on promotion from the division and left the club in September 1932, having scored 10 goals in 34 appearances.[6][7]
Aldershot
Lane signed for Division Three South side Aldershot in September 1932. He played for one season at the Recreation Ground before retiring,[1] having scored eight goals in 36 appearances.
Personal life
After retiring from football in 1933, Lane was licensee of the Royal Horse Guardsmen pub in Ealing Road, Brentford until 1980.[1] He lived in Brentford and died in 1984.[1]
Honours
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920-2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. pp. 93–94. ISBN 978-0955294914.
- 1 2 3 4 Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 168. ISBN 190589161X.
- 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
- 1 2 Chris Wickham. "Kevin O'Connor and Marcus Gayle join others in being added to Brentford FC Hall of Fame". brentfordfc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Brentford Football Club History". Retrieved 15 November 2014.
- 1 2 "John (Jack) Lane". Holmesdale Online. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
- ↑ CrystalPalaceFC_user. "Appearances". Retrieved 15 November 2014.