18 Facts About Jack Haycox

Jack Haycox was an English footballer who scored 47 goals from 97 matches in the Football League playing for Newport County, Bristol City, Torquay United and Northampton Town.

Jack Haycox continued to play club cricket in the Cheltenham area for Templars and Marle Hill, and in 1947, appeared twice for Cambridgeshire in the Minor Counties Championship.

Jack Haycox married Elsie Rimes at Fletton Church, Peterborough, in 1937.

The couple settled in the Peterborough area; at the time of the 1939 Register, they were living with Elsie's parents in Old Fletton and Jack Haycox was working as a packer for an engineering firm.

Elsie died in 1944, and two years later, Jack Haycox remarried, to Joan Burton.

Jack Haycox died in Eye, near Peterborough, in 1962 at the age of 52.

Jack Haycox began his football career with the Cheltenham-based junior club All Saints' Old Boys, and soon earned a reputation as a goalscorer.

Jack Haycox signed amateur forms with Evesham Town in February 1932 and played for them in the Birmingham Combination, and in September, signed for another Birmingham Combination club, Cheltenham Town.

Jack Haycox made his Football League debut against Aldershot on 20 January 1934, and on his second appearance, against Swindon Town in the Third Division South Cup, Haycox scored twice and set up three goals for other players.

Jack Haycox made no more first-team appearances for Newport, but scored 22 goals for the reserves by the end of the season.

In May 1936, Jack Haycox signed for another Third Division South club, Bristol City.

Jack Haycox made his first-team debut in the final of the Gloucestershire Senior Cup against Bristol Rovers, in which he scored the only goal.

Jack Haycox did well in the reserves, including in an experimental spell at outside right rather than his customary centre-forward position, but was unable to force himself into the league team until January 1937, when several players were out with influenza.

Away to Notts County, Jack Haycox was deprived of a goal when his shot was deemed to have entered the goal moments after the referee whistled for time.

Jack Haycox had scored 31 goals in 49 matches in first-team competition, 25 from 43 in the league.

Jack Haycox scored on his Torquay debut, and played regularly for what remained of the season.

Jack Haycox returned to non-league football with Peterborough United of the Midland League in August 1939.

Jack Haycox scored five goals in the three matches played before the Midland League proper was abandoned on the outbreak of the Second World War, and added another fifteen from eleven appearances in the emergency competition.