John Jack
Personal information
Full name John Jack[1]
Birth name Jonas Kaduskevieche[2][3]
Date of birth 9 March 1932
Place of birth Bellshill, Scotland
Date of death 22 October 1988(1988-10-22) (aged 56)
Place of death Bellshill, Scotland
Position(s) Centre half
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Stonehouse Violet
1950–1959 Celtic 48 (0)
1959–1960 Morton
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Jack (9 March 1932 – 22 October 1988) was a Scottish footballer who played for Celtic and Morton.[4]

At Celtic, where he spent nine years,[2] he was mainly a reserve behind Jim Mallan, Alec Boden and Jock Stein, with Bobby Evans also being asked to fill in rather than calling upon the inexperienced Jack even in minor competitions. However he did feature regularly in the 1956–57 season,[2][5] during which he won the Scottish League Cup with the Hoops overcoming Partick Thistle in the final after a replay to win that competition for the first time.[6] When Stein retired and took over the reserve team, Jack assisted until he departed in 1959, spending a short period with Morton.

Born Jonas Kaduskevieche,[3] he was one of four Scots of Lithuanian descent to play for the club between the 1930s and 1960s, all of them defenders,[7][2] the most famous being Billy McNeill who joined as a teenager in 1957 and quickly overtook Jack in the queue for team selection.

References

  1. ↑ Statutory registers - Deaths - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  2. 1 2 3 4 Every footballer has a story, especially if he played for Celtic, Michael Beattie, Celtic Quick News, 11 March 2017
  3. 1 2 Statutory registers - Births - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  4. ↑ John Jack at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
  5. ↑ (Celtic player) Jack, John), FitbaStats
  6. ↑ "Celtic win League Cup for first time". The Herald. Glasgow. 1 November 1956. Retrieved 30 October 2018 – via The Celtic Wiki.
  7. ↑ And they gave us James McGrory and Danny Dawson, Matt Corr, The Celtic Star, 18 March 2020


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