Jack Humphreys

{{short description|Welsh footballer}}

{{Infobox football biography

|name = Jack Humphreys

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|fullname = John Vaughan Humphreys

|birth_date = {{birth date|1920|1|13|df=y}}

|birth_place = Llandudno, Wales

|death_date = {{death date and age|1954|9|21|1920|1|13|df=y}}

|death_place = Caernarfon, Wales

|height =

|position = Defender

|youthyears1 =

|youthclubs1 = Friars School

|youthyears2 = 1936–????

|youthclubs2 = Bolton Wanderers

|years1 = 1945

|clubs1 = Llandudno

|years2 = 1945–1951

|clubs2 = Everton

|years3 = 1951

|clubs3 = Llandudno

|caps2 = 53

|goals2 = 0

|totalcaps =

|totalgoals =

|nationalyears1 = 1947

|nationalteam1 = Wales

|nationalcaps1 = 1

|nationalgoals1 = 0

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Jack Humphreys (13 January 1920 – 21 September 1954[http://www.evertoncollection.org.uk/object?id=796+EFC%2F1%2F1%2F27&p=170 Everton Collection]) was a Welsh international footballer who played as a defender for Everton.{{cite book |last=Hugman |first=Barry |date=2005 |title=The PFA & Football League Players' Records 1946–2005 |publisher=Queen Anne Press |page=309 |isbn=1-85291-665-6}} He was part of the Wales national football team, playing 1 match on 16 April 1947 against Ireland.{{cite web|url=http://eu-football.info/_players.php?id=218|title=Wales player database 1872 to 2013|publisher=eu-football.info|access-date=30 April 2016}}

Playing career

In November 1936 it was reported he had signed Amateur forms for Bolton Wanderers having scored 37 goals in 5 games for Friars School in Bangor.{{Cite web |title=|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19361124/240/0010 |access-date=2022-04-21 |via=British Newspaper Archive}}

In 1945 he signed for Everton from Llandudno.{{Cite web |title= |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19540914/153/0006 |access-date=2022-04-21 |via=British Newspaper Archive}}

Death

Humphreys died in Caernarfon sanitorium in September 1954 at the age of 34.

See also

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