Jack Milburn (footballer born 1908)

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Jack Milburn
Personal information
Full name	John Milburn
Date of birth	1908
Place of birth	Ashington, England
Playing position	Left back
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1946–1947	Leeds United Bradford City	14 (3)
Teams managed
1947–1948	Bradford City
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

John "Jack" Milburn (born 1908 in Ashington, England; died August 1979) was an English footballer who played 408 games for Leeds United. He was also a football manager.

He was a member of the famous Milburn footballing clan.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Playing career 3 Managerial career 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Milburn was a member of the famous Milburn footballing family. His cousin Jackie, known as Wor Jackie, played for Newcastle United. Other members of the Milburn family included brothers George (Leeds United and Chesterfield), Jimmy (Leeds United and Bradford) and Stan (Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale), as well as his nephews Bobby and Jack Charlton.

[edit] Playing career

Jack Milburn was a left back who played a total of 423 league and cup games in a career that was interrupted for seven years by World War Two. All but 15 of those were for Leeds United. In 2000 he was voted the 83rd greatest Leeds player by the club.

He finished his career at Bradford City where he played 14 league games.

[edit] Managerial career

Milburn had moved to Bradford City in October 1946. in the twilight of his playing career as player-coach to Jack Barker. Barker resigned in January 1947 after just eight months in charge leaving Milburn as the natural replacement becoming the club's first ever player-manager.^[1]

Milburn led the club to fifth in Division Three (North) in his first six months in charge. The following season the club came just 14th and during the summer Milburn handed over to David Steele although he remained at the club as Steele's assistant.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Jack Milburn management career stats at Soccerbase

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