Jack Surtees
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Surtees | ||
| Date of birth | 1 July 1911 | ||
| Place of birth | Willington Quay, Wallsend, England | ||
| Date of death | 16 July 1992 (aged 81) | ||
| Place of death | Percy Main, Tyne and Wear, England | ||
| Playing position | Inside Right | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1927–1930 | Percy Main | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1930–1932 | Middlesbrough | 1 | (0) |
| 1932–1933 | Portsmouth | 1 | (0) |
| 1933–1934 | Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic | 21 | (4) |
| 1934 | Northampton Town | 0 | (0) |
| 1934–1936 | Sheffield Wednesday | 40 | (5) |
| 1936–1939 | Nottingham Forest | 93 | (23) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1942 | Darlington | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John 'Jack' Surtees, (1 July 1911 – 16 July 1992), was an English professional footballer whose career lasted from 1931 until 1939. He played for Middlesbrough, Portsmouth, Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic, Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest. Surtees was an inside forward who made 156 League appearances plus 15 in the F.A. Cup, scoring 36 goals.
Surtees was born in Willington Quay, Wallsend, Northumberland and played football for Percy Main Amateurs in the Northern Football Alliance before as a 20-year-old he was signed by Division One side Middlesbrough. He only made one appearance in the 1931–32 season before he moved to Portsmouth for the following season. Once again Surtees only made one appearance for the south coast club before moving to Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic of the Third Division South in an exchange deal involving Surtees and John Friar going to Bournemouth and Len Williams moving in the opposite direction. He established himself in a struggling Bournemouth team playing 21 times in the 1933-34 season, at the end of which the club had to apply for re-election.
Surtees changed teams once again for the 1934–35 season, joining Northampton Town in May 1934 but he had an unhappy time at the County Ground failing to make a first team appearance. So discontented was Surtees with his football career at this point that he agreed a release from his contract with Northampton and arranged to emigrate to North America. However his brother Albert, who had played at Aston Villa in 1924 with Sheffield Wednesday boss Billy Walker managed to arrange a months trial for Surtees at Hillsborough.
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