Jack Hacking
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Hacking | ||
| Date of birth | 22 December 1897 | ||
| Place of birth | Blackburn, England | ||
| Date of death | 31 May 1955 (aged 57) | ||
| Place of death | Accrington, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Grimshaw Park Co-operative | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1919–1925 | Blackpool | 32 | (0) |
| 1925–1926 | Fleetwood | ||
| 1926–1934 | Oldham Athletic | 223 | (0) |
| 1934–1935 | Manchester United | 32 | (0) |
| 1935 | Accrington Stanley | 17 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1928–1929 | England | 3 | (0) |
| The Football League XI | 2 | (0) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1935–1936 | Accrington Stanley | ||
| 1949–1955 | Barrow | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John "Jack" Hacking (22 December 1897 – 31 May 1955) was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Born in Blackburn, he played for Blackpool, Fleetwood Town, Oldham Athletic, Manchester United and Accrington Stanley.
Hacking made his debut for Bill Norman's Blackpool on 24 September 1921, in a 2–0 defeat at Hull City. He was the third goalkeeper Blackpool had used in their first seven league games. He remained in goal for the following five games, all of which Blackpool lost.
With Harry Mingay being Blackpool's first-choice goalkeeper, Hacking didn't start again for the Seasiders until 6 February 1924, under a new manager, Frank Buckley, in a single-goal victory over Manchester United at Bloomfield Road. He went on to appear in the remaining fifteen games of their league campaign, helping them to a fourth-placed finish in Division Two.
Hacking started the first three league games of the 1924–25 season, before being replaced for five games by Algy Wilkinson. He returned for seven games, but another goalkeeper, Len Crompton, took over for 26 of the remaining 27 league games. Hacking returned for a 1–0 defeat at Bradford City on 14 April. It was his final appearance for Blackpool.
After a season at non-league Fleetwood that finished with a win in the Lancashire Combination Cup Final, Hacking signed for Second Division Oldham Athletic together with close friend and Fleetwood teammate Billy Porter. He went on to make 223 appearances for the club over the next eight seasons, during which he proved to be a model of consistency, being rarely absent from the team. One short spell of absence came at Easter 1930 when the club were candidates for promotion back to Division One, which they had left seven years earlier. With Hacking down with flu, they picked up just one point out of three games, losing home and away to Blackpool, who were promoted with Chelsea at the end of the season, with the Oldham club just two points behind. His three England caps in the 1928–29 season, against Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland make him Oldham's most-capped England international.
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