A regular in the reserves, Jack made a single appearance for the first team in the 1956/57 season.

He married Doreen in 1958 and they lived in Vauxhall, Jack working as an estimator for F.G. Minter & Son, later moving to Hemel Hempstead and joining Bernard Sunley & Son.

Jack continued to play football (for a team currently unknown) until fracturing his back in a fall, necessitating a long recovery in a body plaster and then an NHS corset.

Jack and Doreen emigrated to Canada in the mid-1960s, returning to Christchurch, Dorset, 36 years later, where Jack passed away in 2007.