George Jobey
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | July 1885 | ||
| Place of birth | Heddon, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England | ||
| Date of death | 9 May 1962 (aged 76) | ||
| Place of death | Derby, England | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Morpeth Harriers | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1906–1913 | Newcastle United | ||
| 1913–1914 | Woolwich Arsenal | ||
| 1914–1915 | Bradford Park Avenue | ||
| 1915–1918 | Hamilton Academical | ||
| 1918–1920 | Leicester City | ||
| 1920–1922 | Northampton Town | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1920–1922 | Northampton Town (player-manager) | ||
| 1922–1924 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | ||
| 1925–1941 | Derby County | ||
| 1952–1953 | Mansfield Town | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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George Jobey (July 1885 – 9 May 1962) was an English football player and manager. He won the league championship as a player with his hometown club Newcastle United.
Jobey was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and played football for local boys' clubs in Morpeth before joining Newcastle United in 1906. He made his senior debut on 20 April 1907 in a 4–2 loss at Bolton Wanderers.
He spent seven seasons with the Magpies but only played 53 matches, mostly playing at centre or right half; however, he played enough times to win a First Division winner's medal in 1908–09 and also picked up a runners-up medal in the 1911 FA Cup Final; Newcastle lost 1–0 in a replay to Bradford City after a goalless first match.
Jobey was transferred to Woolwich Arsenal in May 1913, and made an immediate impact. On 6 September 1913, Arsenal faced Leicester Fosse in their very first match at their new Arsenal Stadium in Highbury. After Leicester's Tommy Benfield had become the first player to score at the new stadium, Jobey joined him in the record books as the first Arsenal player to do so, heading home just before half-time. In the second half, he was injured and so became the first player to be stretchered off at Highbury.
He played 28 league matches that season before being transferred during the close season to Bradford Park Avenue. He only spent a single season at Bradford before World War I intervened and the Football League was suspended; He played for Scottish club Hamilton Academical during the conflict, before moving to Leicester City after hostilities ended.
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