youthclubs years death_place death_date clubs birth_place caps goals nationalteam position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
hereford thistle 1899 -- 1910 liverpool , england 28 january 1938 hereford thistle everton hereford , england 23 300 15 68 england outside-right 2 1903 -- 1905 15 february 1878 jack sharp
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jack sharp

john `` jack '' sharp -lrb- 15 february 1878 , hereford -- 28 january 1938 , wavertree , liverpool -rrb- was an english sportsman who is most famous for his eleven season playing career at everton f.c. from 1899-1910 which saw him win two caps for his country as well as being a cricketer for lancashire who played in 3 tests for england in 1909 .
from 1899 to 1914 he played cricket regularly for lancashire and played in every match of 1904 when the championship was won without a defeat .
after the war he played as an amateur and captained the lancashire side from 1923 to 1925 .
his position on the football pitch was right winger .
after being signed from aston villa sharp went on to be a championship runner-up on three occasions with everton , scored a goal in the club 's 2 -- 1 defeat to sheffield wednesday in the 1907 fa cup final and was an fa cup winner one year previously against newcastle united .
his portrait appeared on 14 editions of cigarette packets , the mark of a popular sportsman at the time .
when his playing career ended , sharp became a director of everton , a position he held for many years .
he started a sports shop in whitechapel liverpool , which existed until the 1980s before being taken over by jjb sports and later closed .
there was also a shop in chester , within the grosvenor precinct .
his shop was the official supplier of playing strips to both everton and liverpool for many years .
his brother , bertram , was also a footballer with aston villa , everton and southampton who later became a director of everton as well as a cricketer with herefordshire county cricket club .
