Player  -  Jack Balmer  1935 - 1952      
   
England
    Jack Balmer:  Forward
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    Date of Birth:  06.02.1916
    Dead:  25.12.1984
    With the Reds:  1935-1952
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    Weight:  
    Bought from:  Free Transfer
    Signed for LFC:  J0 - 15.05.1935 (amateur) & 23.08.1935 (Professional)
    Debut:  21.08.1935 (Aged 19)
    Last match:  23.02.1952
    Debut goal:  07.12.1935
    1st team league games:  291
    1st team league goals:  99
    Total 1st team games:  312
    Total 1st team goals:  111
    Total 1st team Wartime games: 
    Total 1st team Wartime goals: 
    Contract expiry:  May 1952
    International caps: 
    International goals: 
    International debut: 
    Former clubs:  Collegiate Old Boys (amateur), Everton (amateur), Brighton & Hove Albion and Newcastle United (wartime guest)
    Birth Place:  West Derby, Liverpool, English
    Honours:  1 Division One Championship 1946-47
    Personal Honours:
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  Total LFC games/goals

  League FA Cup FL Cup Europe Other Total
Seasons App Gls App Gls App Gls App Gls App Gls App Gls
1935-36 17 3                 17 3
1936-37 33 8 1               34 8
1937-38 30 13 1               31 13
1938-39 42 10 3 4             45 14
1939-40 3 1                 3 1
1945-46     2 1             2 1
1946-47 39 24 6 4             45 28
1947-48 40 15 1               41 15
1948-49 42 14 4 2             46 16
1949-50 9 1                 9 1
1950-51 34 10 1 1             35 11
1951-52 2   2               4  
Total 291 99 21 12             312 111

  A more detailed look at the player's appearances

  Total   started/substitutions     Total   Competition
  312   Started     291   League
        21   FA Cup

  Career Milestones for Jack Balmer:

  Appearances in all competitions

Date Against Result Venue Competition
1 21.09.1935   Leeds United 0-1   Elland Road League
50 24.04.1937   Huddersfield Town 1-1   Anfield League
100 10.12.1938   Grimsby Town 2-2   Anfield League
150 25.12.1946   Stoke City 1-2   Victoria Ground League
200 03.01.1948   Stoke City 0-0   Anfield League
250 19.03.1949   Charlton Athletic 1-2   The Valley League
300 24.02.1951   Stoke City 3-2   Victoria Ground League

  Goals in all competitions

Date Min Against Result Venue Competition
1 07.12.1935 81   Preston North End 2-1   Anfield League
50 16.11.1946 46   Derby County 4-1   Baseball Ground League
100 20.08.1949 42   Sunderland 4-2   Anfield League

  Notes:

  - Since the 1993-94 season players have a fixed number.

     PROFILE

  Balmer joined Liverpool after playing for Everton as an amateur but potentially the best years of his career were lost to the Second World War.

  But that's not to say he didn't make his mark. When league football did get back under way, Balmer performed as if nothing had changed and was the club's top scorer, equal with Albert Stubbins as Liverpool won the First Division Championship for the first time for nearly a quarter of a century.

  It was during that season that he created a Football League record which may never be broken by scoring hat-tricks in three successive league matches in November 1946; Portsmouth, Derby and Arsenal being his victims.

  Jack was a prolific scorer for Liverpool throughout his career and is one of the few men to have scored over 100 times for the club in all competitions. His final appearance came in February 1952 and he left Anfield agonisingly just one goal short of what would have been a century in First Division matches alone. A tremendously skilful and clever player, he captained Liverpool from 1947-49.

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  Stats Note for Jack Balmer:

  The three league games played in the 1939-40 season were expunged from Football League records as the season was stopped due to World War II. The games are therefore not considered valid by LFChistory.net and as the "Association of football statisticians" does not count them towards official player totals.

  Update: 27.11.2012		  
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