Jack Elkes
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Albert John Elkes | ||
| Date of birth | 31 December 1894 | ||
| Place of birth | Snedshill, Oakengates, Shropshire, England | ||
| Date of death | 22 January 1972 (aged 77) | ||
| Place of death | Rayleigh, Essex, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Inside left / centre half | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1911–1914 | Wellington Town | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1914–1918 | Stalybridge Celtic | ||
| 1918–1922 | Birmingham | 34 | (15) |
| 1922–1923 | Southampton | 33 | (7) |
| 1923–1929 | Tottenham Hotspur | 190 | (49) |
| 1929–1933 | Middlesbrough | 105 | (4) |
| 1933–1934 | Watford | 9 | (1) |
| 1934–1935 | Stafford Rangers | ||
| 1935–1937 | Oakengates Town | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Albert John "Jack" Elkes (31 December 1894 – 22 January 1972) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left for various clubs between the two world wars.
Elkes was born in Snedshill, Oakengates, Shropshire, and played his youth football with Wellington Town before joining Stalybridge Celtic in 1914.
In January 1918 he joined Birmingham, making a few appearances for the club in the wartime leagues and scoring a winning goal which helped the club win their group of the 1919 Football League (Midland Section) subsidiary competition.
After the end of the First World War, he made his debut in the Second Division of the Football League on 27 September 1919, scoring two goals in a 4–2 defeat of Huddersfield Town. In 1919–20 he was mainly used as cover for the established inside-forwards, but still contributed eight goals in sixteen appearances. The following season injury, the arrival of Scottish international playmaker Johnny Crosbie and the form of former England player Harry Hampton, restricted Elkes to just two appearances as Birmingham took the Second Division title. He took advantage of Crosbie's unavailability at the start of the 1921–22 season to score six goals in the opening four fixtures. Though he kept his place for a couple of months, the goals dried up; he scored only once in twelve more games, making his last Birmingham appearance on Boxing Day 1921 before being transferred to Southampton in March 1922.
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