Jack Mahon (footballer, born 1886)

{{short description|English footballer (1886–?)}}

{{about|the player active between the 1900s and 1920s|the player active in the 1930s and 1940s|Jack Mahon (footballer, born 1911)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| fullname = John Mahon

| image = JackMahonGillingham.jpg

| birth_date = {{Birth year|1886}}

| birth_place = Northwich, England{{cite book| first=Michael| last=Joyce| title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939| year=2012| orig-year=2002| publisher=SoccerData| location=Nottingham| isbn=978-1-905891-61-0|page=194}}

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| position = Half Back

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Clowne Whitestar

| years1 = –1908

| clubs1 = Worksop Town

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| years2 = 1908–1909

| clubs2 = Gainsborough Trinity

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| years3 = 1909–1920

| clubs3 = New Brompton/Gillingham

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| years4 = 1920–1921

| clubs4 = Doncaster Rovers

| caps4 =

| goals4 = 3

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John Mahon (1886 – ?) was an English professional footballer who played as a half back.

After playing for minor teams Clowne White Star and Worksop Town he joined Football League club Gainsborough Trinity in 1908. He played 22 times for the club before joining New Brompton in 1909. He remained with the club, later renamed Gillingham, until 1920 and made over 250 appearances.{{cite book | last = Brown | first = Tony| title = The Definitive Gillingham F.C.: A Complete Record | publisher = Soccerdata | year = 2003 | isbn = 1-899468-20-X | page =128}} He also gained the club's first ever representative honour when he played for a Southern League XI against an equivalent team from The Football League in 1910.{{cite book | last = Triggs | first = Roger| title = Gillingham Football Club: A Chronology 1893–1984 | publisher = Kent County Libraries | year = 1984 | page = 6 }}

In 1920, he left Gillingham to join Doncaster Rovers where he played in their first game in their return to football following WW1, in the 2–1 defeat to Rotherham Town in the Midland League.{{cite book|last=Bluff|first=Tony|title=Donny:Doncaster Rovers F.C. The Complete History (1879−2010)|year=2011|publisher=Yore Publications|isbn=978-0-9569848-3-8}} He scored 3 goals during that season, 2 of them as penalties.

His son, also called Jack Mahon, played professionally, notably for Leeds United and West Bromwich Albion in the 1930s.{{cite web|url=http://www.ozwhitelufc.net.au/players_profiles/M/MahonJ.php|title=Mahon: John (Jack)| website=www.ozwhitelufc.net.au}}