George Jacks

{{short description|English footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = George Jacks

| image =

| fullname = George Charles Jacks

| height =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1946|3|14}}

| birth_place = Stepney, England

| position = Midfielder

| years1 = 1964–1965

| years2 = 1965–1972

| years3 = 1972–1976

| years4 = 1976–1981

| clubs1 = Queens Park Rangers

| clubs2 = Millwall

| clubs3 = Gillingham

| clubs4 = Gravesend & Northfleet

| caps1 = 1

| caps2 = 151

| caps3 = 159

| caps4 = 171

| goals1 = 0

| goals2 = 5

| goals3 = 20

| goals4 = 10

}}

George Charles Jacks (born 14 March 1946 in Stepney){{cite book | first=Roger|last= Triggs | title=The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club| publisher=Tempus Publishing Ltd | year=2001| isbn=0-7524-2243-X|pages=171}} is an English former professional footballer. His clubs included Queens Park Rangers,[http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/qpr.html Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219000017/http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/qpr.html |date=19 December 2013 }} Millwall[http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/millwall/millwall.html Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database] and Gillingham.[http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/gillingham/gillingham.html Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database]

With Millwall Jacks made over 150 appearances, twice winning promotion, from the Fourth and Third Divisions and was twice named as Player of the Season.{{Cite journal |date=9 January 1996 |title=Past Masters: George Jacks |journal=Gillingham Official Programme versus Chester City |publisher=Queensway Publishing Ltd |pages=5}}

At Gillingham he made over 150 Football League appearances and was named Player of the Season in 1973–74, as the Kent side achieved promotion to the Third Division. He joined near neighbours Gravesend & Northfleet in 1976 helping them to win the Southern League Cup in 1978. He was voted Player of the Year the following season. He joined Barking in 1981.

Following his football career Jacks remained in Kent and worked as a printer with the Kent Messenger Group of newspapers.