Jack Leslie

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Jack Leslie (disambiguation).

Jack F. Leslie is a former football player. He signed for Plymouth Argyle from Barking Town in 1921. Leslie scored over 400 goals in his career, 134 of those for Plymouth in 400 appearances. He retired from football in 1935. A call-up to the national team was cancelled when officials realized he was a "a man of colour."[1]

Leslie later was the boot-boy for West Ham.[2]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ England's Black Players. England Football Online. Retrieved on 2008-04-29.
  2. ^ Knight, Brian (1989). Plymouth Argyle A Complete Record 1903-1989, pp. 88. ISBN 0-907969-40-2. 
  This biographical article related to an English football striker is a stub. You can help by expanding it.