Frank Allack

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| fullname = Frank Albert Allack

| birth_date = 25 September 1888

| birth_place = Woolwich, London, England

| death_date = 1967 (aged 78-79)

| death_place = Woolwich, England

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| position = Forward

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| clubs1 = Plumstead FC

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| clubs2 = Catford Southend

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| years3 = 1911–1912

| clubs3 = RCD Espanyol

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| years4 = 1912–1914

| clubs4 = FC Barcelona

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| clubs5 = Català SC

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Frank Albert Allack (25 September 1888{{Cite web |date=2024-12-03 |title=Revelem nous descobriments dels primers anys de la història del Barça |url=https://www.rac1.cat/esports/20241203/216547/revelem-nous-descobriments-primers-anys-historia-barca-tudiras.html |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=RAC1 |language=ca}} – 1967) was an English footballer who played as a forward for Spanish clubs RCD Espanyol and FC Barcelona.{{cite web |url=https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/c/jugador.html?id=15103 |title=Frank Albert Allack - Footballer |website=www.bdfutbol.com |access-date=10 August 2022}} The highlight of his career was winning the treble with Barcelona in the 1912–13 season (Catalan championship, Copa del Rey and Pyrenees Cup), netting a goal in the final of the 1913 Pyrenees Cup.{{Cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/pyrenees.html#13 |title=1913 Pyrenees Cup |date=4 May 2017 |access-date=10 August 2022 |archive-date=30 July 2022 |website=RSSSF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730000108/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/pyrenees.html#13 |url-status=live }}

Biography

Born in Woolwich, he began to play football in England for Plumstead FC and then Catford Southend. Allack toured Catalonia with the former, and in a match against RCD Espanyol on 18 May 1911, he put up a great performance which impressed the Catalan club enough for them to sign him, along with William Hodge and Raine Gibson.{{cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1911/05/18/pagina-2/615606/pdf.html |title=Plumstead FC de Londres contra CD Español |trans-title=Plumstead FC London v Spanish CD |language=es |publisher=Mundo Deportivo |date=18 May 1911 |access-date=10 August 2022 |archive-date=1 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501004628/http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1911/05/18/pagina-2/615606/pdf.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1911/06/01/pagina-4/615617/pdf.html |title=CD Español ingressa refuerzos del Plumstead FC |trans-title=CD Español joins reinforcements from Plumstead FC |language=es |publisher=Mundo Deportivo |date=1 June 1911 |access-date=10 August 2022 |archive-date=23 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723163419/http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1911/06/01/pagina-4/615617/pdf.html |url-status=live }} He had an immediate impact in Espanyol, quickly becoming one of the club's most important players and playing a pivotal role in helping his side win the 1911–12 Catalan championship, thus interrupting a three-year dominace of FC Barcelona.

His great season at Espanyol earned him a move to FC Barcelona in 1912, where he played for two seasons.{{cite web |url=https://players.fcbarcelona.com/en/player/25-allack-frank-albert-allack |title=Frank Albert Allack stats - FC Barcelona Players |website=players.fcbarcelona.com |access-date=10 August 2022 |archive-date=9 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609021707/https://players.fcbarcelona.com/en/player/25-allack-frank-albert-allack |url-status=live }} He again had a great first impact on the team, helping Barça win all the titles at stake in his first season with them (1912–13): The Catalan championship, Copa del Rey and Pyrenees Cup, and he was one of the most outstanding players in the latter tournament, being its shared top scorer (alongside Alexander Steel) with 3 goals, two in a 7–0 win over Casual SC in the quarter-finals and one in the final to help his side to a 7–2 win over Cométe et Simot. He later played for Català SC before retiring in 1914.

His brother, Henry Thomas Allack, was also a footballer and played in Catalonia for Olot Deportiu, Sporting Club Olotí, CE Manresa and Terrassa FC.{{cite web |url=https://memoriesfutbolcatala.wordpress.com/2018/05/20/els-germans-allack-una-nova-descoberta-britanics-a-catalunya-1/ |title=Els germans Allack: una nova descoberta (Britànics a Catalunya) |date=20 May 2018 |trans-title=The Allack brothers: a new discovery (British in Catalonia) |language=es |publisher=memoriesfutbolcatala |access-date=10 August 2022 |archive-date=11 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811004305/https://memoriesfutbolcatala.com/2018/05/20/els-germans-allack-una-nova-descoberta-britanics-a-catalunya-1/ |url-status=live }}