Jack Dugnolle

Jack Dugnolle

Personal information
Full name	John Henry Dugnolle[1]
Date of birth	(1914-03-24)24 March 1914[1]
Place of birth	Peshawar, British India
Date of death	31 August 1977(1977-08-31) (aged 63)[1]
Place of death	Shoreham-by-Sea, England
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[2]
Position(s)	Wing half
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Hove
193?–1934	Southwick
1934–1938	Brighton & Hove Albion	7	(0)
1938	Tunbridge Wells Rangers
1938–1946	Plymouth Argyle	4	(0)
1946–1948	Brighton & Hove Albion	59	(0)
1951–195?	Horsham
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Henry Dugnolle (24 March 1914 – 31 August 1977) was an English professional footballer who made 70 Football League appearances playing as a wing half for Brighton & Hove Albion and Plymouth Argyle.[1][3]

Life and career

Dugnolle was born in 1914 in Peshawar, which was then part of British India, the son of a serving soldier in the Royal Sussex Regiment, John Henry Dugnolle, and his wife Harriett. His father, by then a second lieutenant, was killed in France in September 1915.[2][4] Dugnolle attended Connaught Road School in Hove, and was a member of the Brighton Schools team that reached the final of the 1928 English Schools' Inter-Association Cup.[2][5]

He played Sussex County League football for Hove and Southwick, and appeared for Brighton & Hove Albion's reserve team as an amateur, before signing professional forms with Albion in 1934. He made his senior debut in the Football League Third Division South in November 1935, but played only rarely, and returned to non-league football with Tunbridge Wells Rangers of the Southern League in 1938.[2] He soon returned to the Football League with Plymouth Argyle, for whom he made four appearances in the Second Division before competitive football was suspended for the duration of the Second World War.[6]

Dugnolle rejoined Brighton after the war, making 65 more appearances in all competitions and staying on to coach the youth team. He returned to the pitch as player-coach of Horsham, with whom he won the 1951–52 Metropolitan League title. He went on to coach at and manage Worthing, published a coaching manual, Soccer Simplified,[2] and scouted for Liverpool.[7] He died in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, in 1977 at the age of 63.[1]

References

1. "Jack Dugnolle". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
2. Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
3. "Jack Dugnolle". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
4. "Second Lieutenant Dugnolle, John Henry". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
5. "ESFA U15 Inter Association Cup". English Schools' Football Association. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
6. "Jack Dugnolle". Greens on Screen. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
7. "Liverpool scout: Jack Dugnolle". Worthing Gazette. 18 January 1956. Retrieved 22 September 2018 – via PlayUpLiverpool.com.