Jack Peart

Playing career Peart left Adelaide South Shields to sign with First Division side Sheffield United in 1907. He scored 50 goals for the reserve team in the 1907–08 season. He hit eight goals in 27 league appearances and helped the "Blades" finish 17th in 1907–08 and 12th in 1908–09. He then left Bramall Lane for Stoke in the Birmingham & District League in 1910.

He was sold to Notts County in February 1913, and finished as the club's top-scorer in 1912–13 with just seven goals, as County were relegated into the Second Division. He hit 28 league goals in 1913–14 to fire the club to promotion as divisional champions – he was also the division's joint top-scorer, with Sammy Stevens. He scored 11 goals in 1914–15, again finishing as the club's top-scorer. In his six years at Meadow Lane, he scored 51 goals in 82 league appearances. During World War I he served as a corporal in the Army and also guested for Rochdale, Leeds United, Stoke and Barnsley. He scored 71 goals in 107 appearances at Elland Road. Injury limited his contribution to the Vale's 1921–22 campaign to just seven appearances and he was released from his contract at the Old Recreation Ground in the summer.

Style of play Peart was only , but was physically imposing and was known as "the nightmare of goalkeepers". He took the club to the semi-finals of the FA Cup in 1935–36, where a 2–1 defeat to Sheffield United at Molineux cost them a place in the 1936 FA Cup final.

Personal life Peart was married to Margaret Joan Fraser; their son was the doctor and clinical researcher Sir Stanley Peart.

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Honours Stoke City Birmingham & District League: 1910–11 Southern Football League Division Two second-place promotion: 1910–11

Notts County Football League Second Division: 1913–14