Jocky Wright

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Jocky Wright
Personal information
Full name John Wright[1]
Date of birth 4 February 1873
Place of birth Hamilton, Scotland
Date of death 1946 (aged 72–73)
Place of death Southend-on-Sea, England
Position(s) Inside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1892–1893 Hamilton Academical
1893–1894 Motherwell 7 (1)
1894 Hamilton Academical
1894–1895 Clyde 18 (4)
1895–1898 Bolton Wanderers 85 (14)
1898–1902 The Wednesday 103 (42)
1902 Hamilton Academical 3 (1)
1902–1904 Bolton Wanderers 34 (5)
1904–1907 Plymouth Argyle 107 (17)
1907–1908 Watford 27 (0)
1908–1910 Southend United 56 (10)
Total 440 (94)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Wright (4 February 1873 – 1946) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers and The Wednesday, and the Southern League for Plymouth Argyle, Watford and Southend United.[2][3] He was an inside forward.[1]

Career[edit]

Wright was born in Hamilton.[1][3] He began his career with Hamilton Academical[4] and played for Motherwell during their first Scottish Football League campaign[5] before returning to Hamilton (who had yet to join the SFL).[3] He then moved to Clyde, where he made 18 league appearances and scored four goals.[3][6]

Wright switched to English football when he joined Bolton Wanderers in June 1895, and played regularly in his first three seasons with the club.[3] He was transferred to The Wednesday in November 1898 having scored 14 league goals in 85 games for Bolton.[2][3] In his second season with Wednesday (1899–1900), Wright was the club's leading goalscorer and received a Football League Second Division winner's medal.[3] He scored 42 goals in 103 league appearances for Wednesday[1][2] (and 110 and 43 including FA Cup ties).[7]

He returned to Hamilton in September 1902[4] and then re-signed with Bolton the following month.[3] In two more seasons with the club, Wright played in 34 league games and scored five times.[1] Wright left the club in May 1904 and joined Plymouth Argyle,[2][8] where he won the Western League First Division title in his second season.[2] A club handbook states that Wright was "always clever, frequently brilliant and has never been known to play a bad game."[2] He made 110 appearances for Argyle in all competitions and scored 17 goals before moving to Watford in May 1907.[2][3] Wright played in 27 league games without scoring and then joined Southend United in May 1908.[3]

In two seasons with Southend, he scored ten goals in 56 league appearances.[3] Wright became the club's reserve team trainer in 1913 and went on to coach in the local area.[3] Wright died in Southend-on-Sea in 1946.[3]

Personal life[edit]

He had two sons who were also footballers: Billy Wright played for Bolton and for Reading;[9] Doug Wright played mainly for Newcastle United and Lincoln City, and was capped by England in 1938.[4][10]

Honours[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 289. ISBN 1-899468-67-6.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Jocky Wright". Greens on Screen. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "John Wright" (PDF). Watford F.C. Archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  4. ^ a b c Wright, John (1902), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
  5. ^ John Wright MotherWELLnet
  6. ^ John Litster (October 2012). "A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players". Scottish Football Historian magazine.
  7. ^ John Wright, The Sheffield Wednesday Archive
  8. ^ "History: 1900–1919". Bolton Wanderers F.C. Archived from the original on 21 June 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  9. ^ Wright Billy Image 1 Bolton 1931, Vintage Footballers
  10. ^ Wright, John (1943), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank
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