Jon Wright (footballer)

Jon Wright
Personal information
Full name	Jonathan Wright
Date of birth	30 January 1925
Place of birth	Newburn, Northumberland, England
Date of death	22 February 2015 (aged 90)
Place of death	Durham, England
Position(s)	Inside forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1947–1949	Darlington
1949–19??	Horden Colliery Welfare
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jonathan Wright (30 January 1925 – 22 February 2015) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Darlington.^[1] He made his debut on 1 March 1947, standing in for Charlie Stubbs at inside right in a 4–1 win against Rochdale, and made three more appearances towards the end of that season. He had a run of 11 matches at the end of the following season, and played his final first-team match in September 1948.^[3] He went on to play for North-Eastern League club Horden Colliery Welfare.^[4]

Wright was born in Newburn, Northumberland, in 1925 and died in Durham in 2015 at the age of 90.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "John Wright". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Announcements: Death Notices & Obituaries: Jonathan Wright". The Northern Echo. Darlington. 27 February 2015.
^ Tweddle, Frank (2000). The Definitive Darlington F.C. Nottingham: SoccerData. pp. 43–45. ISBN 978-1-899468-15-7.
^ "Horden ready for off". Sunderland Echo. 6 August 1949. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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[Hugman-1] "John Wright". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

[DeathNotice-2] "Announcements: Death Notices & Obituaries: Jonathan Wright". The Northern Echo. Darlington. 27 February 2015.

[3] Tweddle, Frank (2000). The Definitive Darlington F.C. Nottingham: SoccerData. pp. 43–45. ISBN 978-1-899468-15-7.

[4] "Horden ready for off". Sunderland Echo. 6 August 1949. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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