Jack Allan (footballer, born 1886)

Stanley James E. "Jack" Allan[2] (28 December 1886 – 4 May 1919) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Newcastle United, West Bromwich Albion and Nottingham Forest as a forward.

[3][4] Allan attended College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham between 1906 and 1908 and during that time, he worked as a physical education teacher at a school in Wallsend.

[5] He later taught physical education at the Higher Grade School in Stockton-on-Tees.

[5] While home on demobilisation leave in May 1919, Allan died of a combination of Spanish flu and pneumonia and he was buried in Church Bank Cemetery, Wallsend.

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