Landells Jack Image 3 Clapton Orient 1937

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Gateshead, County Durham born inside right Jack Landells began his football career with Thames Board Mills in 1922 and played for Grays Athletic in 1923, from where he was signed by Third Division (South) club Millwall in the summer of 1925, making his Football League debut at Crystal Palace the same August, scoring in a 2-1 win. He then scored a hat-trick in his next match in a win over Aberdare Athletic but lost his place in January 1926 and was a fringe player through the 1926-27 season.

Landells then had the season of his career in 1927-28 as he top scored for Millwall with 33 goals despite missing 4 matches, as Millwall won the Third Division (South) Championship, Landells scoring 4 goals against Coventry City and hat-tricks against Southend United and Walsall. He never regained this prolific goalscoring and never got into double figures again during his career. He continued to play a further five seasons in an improving Millwall side and by the time he transferred to West Ham United in the 1933 close season he had scored 71 goals in 185 matches for The Lions.

He had a single season at Upton Park, scoring 3 times in 22 matches for The Hammers, before joining Bristol City in the 1934 close season, where he featured in their FA Cup run that ended in a fifth round replay defeat to First Division Preston North End having knocked out Portsmouth, finalists the previous year, in the fourth round. In total he scored 4 goals in 30 matches for The Robins but again moved on after a season, joining Carlisle United in the summer of 1935, where he scored 6 goals in 34 matches for The Cumbrians.

He then moved the next summer to Walsall, scoring once in 20 matches for The Saddlers and finally joined Clapton Orient in 1937, playing only twice for The O’s before finishing his career with Southern League club Chelmsford City, joining them in 1938.