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Jack
Southworth |
Blackburn Rovers FC,
Everton FC
3 appearances, 3 goals
1 goal on
debut
P 3 W 3 D
0 L 0 F 12: A 3
100% successful
1889-94
captain: none
minutes played: 270 |
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Timeline |
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John Southworth |
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Birth |
Saturday, 29 December 1866 at 39 Ainsworth Street, Blackburn, Lancashire |
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registered in Blackburn January-March 1867 |
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Baptism |
Sunday, 12 April 1868 in St. Mary the Virgin
Church, Blackburn, by R. Mayall. |
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According to the 1871
census, John is the third of four children to Robert and Martha (née
Austin). His
father is a joiner. They are lodging with his mothers family at 39
Ainsworth Street in Blackburn. |
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According to the 1881
census, John now has three more siblings, and all are now at 49 Inkerman
Street, still in Blackburn. His father is a joiner and John is his
apprentice. The eldest brother, William, is a musician. |
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Marriage |
to
Jessie Simpson, in the 1889 summer in Blackburn. |
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registered in Blackburn July-September 1889 |
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Children |
Jack and Jessie
Southworth had two children together.
Fanny (b.9 March 1890)
and Harry
(b.26 April 1896) |
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According to the 1891
census, John is described as a musician, married to Jessie with one
daughter, Fanny. They live at 16 Ribble Street in Blackburn. |
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"SHOCKING
OCCURRENCE
TO A CHILD.—On
Monday the four-year-old daughter of Jack
Southworth, the renowned football centre, was left with her grandmother,
living in Park-terrace, Blackburn, whilst her father went to Liverpool on
some business, The child was playing with and patting a large retriever
dog belonging to a neighbour, Mr. Hacking, when the animal suddenly
turned, knocked the child down, and fastened its teeth in the child's cheek
before anyone had time to interfere. The child's grandmother sprang to the
rescue, but she sprained her ankle in so doing. When the animal was driven
off it was seen that the little girl had sustained very serious injuries.
Her face was shockingly mutilated, there being three wounds on her cheek,
under the eye and on the temple, which were bleeding profusely. Medical
aid was summoned and the child's injuries attended to, and fortunately the
child seems to be none the worse for the occurrence except for the shock
and the disfiguring marks on the face." - Preston Herald,
Saturday, 11 November 1893 |
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According to the 1901
census, John is still a married musician with another child, Harry. They
live at 14 Redgrave Street in the West Derby area of Liverpool. |
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According to the 1911
census, John is still a married musician with two children. They live at 8
Mallow Road, on the Molyneux Road in Liverpool. |
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According to the 1921
census, John is still a married, and still a musician (for the Llandudno
Pier company). With his son, Harry, and two boarders, both musicians, they
now live at Sunnymount, on Old Road in Llandudno.
(His father died
in 1924 and his mother in 1929) |
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According to the 1939 register, John and Jessie are still
married and living at 3 Beech Tree Garden in the Wavertree area of
Liverpool. He is a retired musician and they live with their daughter,
Fanny (Hodgkinson). |
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Death |
Tuesday, 16 October 1956
at 3 Beech Tree Road in Wavertree, Liverpool,
Lancashire |
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aged
89 years 292 days |
registered in Liverpool South October-December 1956 |
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Obituary |
"Former Rovers player dies
"A FAMOUS old Cup fighter, Mr. John
('Skimmy') Southworth, formerly of Blackburn Rovers, died yesterday at
Wavertree, Liverpool, aged 89. One of the finest and probably fastest
(hence his nickname) centre forwards Blackburn have had, he was the last
surviving member of the Rovers' Cup winning team of 1890 and 1891. In the
1890 Final he scored the fourth of the Rovers' six goals against Sheffield
Wednesday, and the following year he scored against Notts County. His
brother James, who died in Australia, in 1940, was Blackburn's right back
in the first of these Finals. John Southworth played for England against
Wales in 1889 and 1891 and Scotland in 1892. He was transferred to Everton
in 1893 for a then record fee of between £200 and £300. A knee injury in
his second season with Everton ended his football career. He turned to
music and often broadcast as a member of the B.B.C. Northern Orchestra. He
was also with the Hallé Orchestra and the Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra, playing the bass fiddle, trombone, euphonium and tuba. Mr. Southworth began playing football with Blackburn Olympic in 1884 and
scored six goals for them in one match against Leigh.
"He was with the
Rovers from 1887 to 1893, during which time they moved from the Leamington
ground to Ewood Park. Competent judges of his day considered him the best
of all English centre forwards. A match he attended at Ewood in 1950 was
the first game he had seen for many years. He expressed the view that
modern football was far better than he had been led to believe."
- Lancashire
Evening Post,
Wednesday, 17 October 1956. |
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Funeral |
Thursday, 18 October 1956,
cremated
at Anfield Crematorium, Liverpool |
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Probate |
"SOUTHWORTH
John of
3 Beechtree-road
Liverpool died
16 October 1956 Administration Liverpool
2 November to Fanny Hodgkinson married woman.
Effects £167 16s.
5d."
[2019 Equivalent: £4200] |
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Jessie Southworth died on 28 March 1960. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
Started his career as a teenager with Blackburn Olympic FC, and signed for
Blackburn Rovers FC shortly after and played with them from their
inaugural Football League season, becoming the club captain. Southworth turned down
offers to join Everton FC and Sheffield United FC in 1891. On 23 August
1893, Everton FC approached Rovers to request their permission to speak to
Southworth, it was rejected. Then, on 3 September 1893, negotiations between Southworth and Blackburn Rovers FC broke down following his wage demands. He had wanted £3 a week
in the winter, as well as in the summer, a £10 signing-on fee and to be allowed
to leave at the end of the season. Although Rovers refused, Newton Heath
FC, Preston North End FC, West Manchester FC and Burton Swifts
FC were more than willing. It was Everton FC that won his signature shortly
after for a £400 transfer fee. Southworth then missed much of the 1894-95 season
because of a knee injury, playing in a benefit match against Preston North
End FC for James Trainer on 19 November 1894, it would ultimately end his playing career.
It was reported 'with a
great authority' that Southworth officially left Everton FC on 22 June
1895. |
"JACK
OPENS HIS MOUTH AT LAST
"John
Southworth, the ex-Rover writes to us as follows:-"Sir,—Now that my
connection with the Rovers' Football Club is at an end, and I am in a
position of greater freedom and less responsibility, so far as the
committee are concerned, I trust you will grant me space in your valuable
paper for this communication. From week to week lately your columns have
contained statements in reference to my conduct and attitude towards the
committee, and imputing to me the most mercenary and unsportsmanlike
conduct in my negotiations with the committee, and which are calculated
very seriously to prejudice me in the eyes of the public if allowed to go
unchallenged. First of all, I may state that in trying to sever my
connection with the Rovers I have only had one object in view, to try and
assure myself of a position after my football days are over, which a place
like Liverpool affords for a musician, more so than Blackburn. From my
first appearance in the Rovers to the end of last season I have played in
the position of centre-forward. In 1887-8 I had £1 a week for the
playing season, and the same in 1888-9, thus for two years I got about £70.
These terms held good also for the season 1889-90, but a bonus of £20
was added, which makes about £55. The following season, 1890-1, I
was paid £2 a week for the playing season and £10s. a week for
close season, making a total for this season of £78 10s. In 1891-2 I
signed for two years, which meant till the end of 1892-3, for £2 a
week playing season, 10s. a week close season, and £100 bonus, but
instead of receiving the £100 down I got it in installments, the last
of which I got after the finish of last season. I also had a
benefit match which realised between £70 and £80, but this not
being included in my wages I don't put it down on my wage list. Thus in
six years, I have cost the Rovers in weekly wages and bonuses about £460
10s. Now for the other side of the question. With these facts
before them the public will be able to judge as to the sneers which have
been indulged in, in reference to a very costly player. If I had
been the selfish, grasping, mercenary character I have been represented to
be, utterly regardless of anybody or anything but my own pocket, I could,
four years ago, have had £2 10s. a week all the year round from
Everton, with a prospect of £3 a week or even more the following
year, and since that offer I have refused one from Sheffield United two
years ago (in fact only a few days before I signed for the Rovers for two
seasons) of £4 a week all the year around, and a bonus of £50,
and assuming I played another season with them at the above salary (£4
a week) without the bonus it would bring up my wage list to considerably
over £700 for four years as against £460 in wages
from the Rovers for six years. It would be interesting to know
how many of those who are so bitter on the subject would have refused
these tempting offers. In breaking off the agreement arrived at between
the committee and myself I wish to state that it was not my fault. The
sub-committee appointed to treat with me, and supposed to have full
powers, agreed without any reservation whatever to terms, including my
release, if desired, at the end of the season for not more than £20,
but their full committee repudiated the agreement of their sub-committee,
hence my transfer." - Blackburn Standard, 9 September 1893 |
League History
139 appearances, 132 goals |
Blackburn Rovers FC 1888-92
108 appearances, 96 goals.
debut:
15 September 1888 Blackburn Rovers FC 5 Accrington FC 5.
Everton FC, 1893-94 31 appearances, 36 goals
debut: 9
September 1893 Derby County FC 7 Everton FC 3.
last: 27 October 1894 Everton FC 1 Sunderland AFC 1. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup winners
1889-90 (5ᵃ 5ᵍ 1890-91 (6ᵃ 6ᵍ);
Football League third place 1889-90 (22ᵃ 22ᵍ); Division One
runners-up 1894-95 (9ᵃ 9ᵍ); |
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Individual honours |
Football League
(one appearance); |
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Goalscoring honours |
Football
League top goalscorer 1889-90 (26), 1893-94 (27); |
Distinctions |
Scored thirteen
hat-tricks for Blackburn Rovers FC, five of which where in the 1890-91
season. Scored six for Everton FC against West Bromwich Albion FC, 30
December 1893.
A benefit match was played for Southworth on the evening
of 31 October 1892 between Blackburn Rovers FC and Darwen FC, before
several thousand spectators. The match, which was floodlit, resulted in a
2-1 victory for Rovers.
John's younger brother, James, also played for
Blackburn Rovers FC. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9", 11st.
0lbs [1891] |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One
of five who became the 152nd
player (155) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Centre-forward |
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First match |
No. 35, 23 February 1889,
England 4 Wales 1, a British Championship match at
Victoria Ground, Boothen, Stoke-upon-Trent, aged
22 years
56 days.
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Last match |
No. 46, 2 April 1892, Scotland 1 England 4, a
British Championship match at Ibrox Park, Copland Road, Glasgow, aged
25 years 95 days.
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1888-89, 1890-91, 1891-92; |
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Team honours |
British Championship winners
1890-91, 1891-92; |
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Individual honours |
The
North (one appearance, January 1890);
The Whites
(one appearance 2ᵍ, March 1894, withdrew in March 1891) |
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Distinctions |
The third
England player to score a goal in each of his first three appearances. |
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Beyond England |
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A professional violinist, who from
1896 played in the famous Hallé Orchestra of Manchester. In his
latter years, he was winning competitions at Bowling. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.230. |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
comp. apps |
minutes |
| goals ave.min |
comp. goals |
captain |
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7 |
3 |
3 |
270 |
3 |
90 min |
3 |
none |
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The minutes here given
can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an
approximation. |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
3 |
+9 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
100 |
+3 |
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All of his matches were played in the British Championship
competition |
Venue Record
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Venue |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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Home |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
2 |
+6 |
0 |
0 |
4.00 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+2 |
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Away |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
0 |
0 |
4.00 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
Tournament Record
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British Championship Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC 1888-89 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
0 |
0 |
4.00 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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BC 1889-90 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
00.0 |
=0 |
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BC 1890-91 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
0 |
0 |
4.00 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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BC 1891-92 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
0 |
0 |
4.00 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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BC 1892-93 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
00.0 |
=0 |
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BC 1893-94 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
00.0 |
=0 |
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BC
All |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
3 |
+9 |
0 |
0 |
4.00 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+3 |
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All Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
3 |
+9 |
0 |
0 |
4.00 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+3 |
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3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
3 |
+9 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
100 |
+3 |
Match History
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