Jack Holliday
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John William Holliday | ||
| Date of birth | 19 December 1908 | ||
| Place of birth | Cockfield, England | ||
| Date of death | 1987 (aged 78–79) | ||
| Playing position | Forward, wing half | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Cockfield | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1930–1932 | Middlesbrough | 6 | (4) |
| 1932–1944 | Brentford | 213 | (116) |
| Total | 219 | (120) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John William "Jack" Holliday (19 December 1908 – 1987) was an English football forward who played in the Football League for Brentford and Middlesbrough. In 2013 Holliday was voted by the Brentford supporters as the club's fourth-greatest ever player and he holds the club record for most goals in a season. He was posthumously inducted into the Brentford Hall of Fame in 2015.
A forward, Holliday joined hometown club Middlesbrough in March 1930. Behind George Camsell in the pecking order, he spent most of his time in the club's reserve team, winning the North Eastern League title with the club in the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seasons, also scoring an incredible 78 goals on the way to the latter triumph. Despite these exploits, Holliday rarely featured at first team level, but found the net when given a chance, scoring four goals in six Division One appearances. He departed Boro in May 1932.
Holliday and Middlesbrough teammates Billy Scott and Bert Watson moved to join Division Three South side Brentford in May 1932, in what would become one of the most celebrated transfers in the club's history. Flourishing under Harry Curtis' management, Holliday's career at Griffin Park got off to a flying start, scoring 39 goals in 35 games in the 1932–33 season to send the Bees to Division Two as champions. With 38 league goals, he claimed the club record for most league goals scored in a season and most league hattricks (five), records which as of 2015 have never been surpassed. He was also the first player to score five goals in a single game for Brentford, which he achieved in an incredible 5–5 draw with Luton Town on 1 February 1933. The Bees narrowly missed out on a second successive promotion during the 1933–34 season, finishing fourth in Division Two, with Halliday scoring 27 goals from 41 appearances. His 25 goals during the 1934–35 season helped Brentford to the Division Two championship and to promotion to the top tier of English football for the first time in the club's history.
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