Jack Hunter

England

(1878-1882)

Apps, 7 Goals, 0

It wasn’t always easy for for Jack at International level - England with their individualistic instincts had fallen furlongs behind the Scots & the Welsh with their far more team based combinational ethos, enduring, as he did, some of his countries severest reverses…

1878 - Scotland 7-2 England

1880 - Scotland 5-4 England

1881 - England 0-1 Wales

1881 - England 1-6 Scotland

1882 - Scotland 5-1 England

1882 - Wales 5-3 England

Ouch!!!

Jack’s solitary International success arriving in the March of 1880 over at Wrexham’s Racecourse Ground

England

Wales

2-3

The defining strikes of

Franny Sparks

…carrying the day in England’s first ever away win…