Yeomanson: John William (Jack)

WW2 Guest: 1944-1945 (Player Details)

Right Back

Born: Margate: 03-03-1920

Debut: v Chesterfield (a): 01-04-1944

Height & Weight: Unknown

Yeomanson started his football career with his local team Non-League Margate. He guested for Leeds United during the Second World War and, after making his debut at Right Half in a 1-3 defeat at Saltergate by Chesterfield on 1st April 1944, he played all of the last five games in the 1943-44 Football League Northern Section Second Championship. He was at Right Half in the next three games, as United won the reverse fixture with Chesterfield 1-0 at Elland Road, but lost 3-5 at Rotherham United and drew 2-2 with Halifax Town at home, but was at Right Back for the final game as United went down 2-5 in the reverse fixture at The Shay. He returned for the 1944-45 Football League Northern Section games, and was a regular as he played nine of the eighteen games in the First Championship campaign playing at Right Half in the first two games and at Right Back in the rest and he scored his only goal for United in the second game of the campaign in a 3-3 draw with Bradford Park Avenue on 2nd September 1944. In the Second Championship he played the first five games, the first three at Right Back and the next two at Left Back but only played one more game, his final for United, at Right Back, in a 1-1 draw with Grimsby Town at Elland Road on 24th March 1945, to bring his total for the campaign to six and his overall games for United to twenty. After the War he joined Second Division West Ham United from Margate in February 1947 and made his debut in a 1-4 defeat at Bradford Park Avenue on 23rd August 1947. He scored one goal for the Hammers and that came on 18th September 1948 in a 3-0 home win over Plymouth Argyle and he went on to make one hundred and six League and five F.A. Cup appearances before he made his final Hammers’ appearance on 31st March 1951 in a 2-4 home defeat by Manchester City. He rejoined his native club Non-League Margate and played out his football career there. He died in 1997.