John Henry Round (20 May 1903 – 31 December 1936) was an English

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who played in the

Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...

for

Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in . The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895 after moving from their original home at Pik ...

Port Vale Port Vale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in . Vale are the only English Football League club not to be named after a place; their name being a reference to the valley of ...

and

Carlisle United Carlisle United Football Club ( , ) is a professional association football club based in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. The team compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. They have played their home games at Brunton Park ...

in the 1920s and 1930s.

Career

Round played for

Brierley Hill Alliance Brierley Hill Alliance F.C. was an English association football club based in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands. Formed in 1887 from a merger of Brockmoor Harriers and Brockmoor Pickwicks, the club joined the Birmingham & District League in 18 ...

Cradley Heath Cradley Heath is a town in the Rowley Regis area of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England approximately north-west of Halesowen, south of Dudley and west of central Birmingham. Cradley Heath is often confused with the ...

and

, before joining

in September 1930. He played 38

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and two

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competit ...

games in the 1930–31 season, as Vale posted a club record high finish of fifth in the

. He scored three goals in 30 league games in the 1931–32 season, before making 31 appearances in the 1932–33 campaign. However, he appeared just three times at

The Old Recreation Ground The Old Recreation Ground was a football stadium located in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England, and home to Port Vale F.C. from 1913 to 1950. It was the sixth ground the club used. Structure and facilities The stadium was in rather bad conditio ...

in the 1933–34 season, and was released at the end of the 1934–35 season. He then moved on to

, helping the "Cumbrians" to a 13th-place finish in the

Third Division North The Third Division North of the Football League was a tier in the English football league system from 1921 to 1958. It ran in parallel with the Third Division South with clubs elected to the League or relegated from a higher division allocated to ...

in 1935–36, before he died on New Year's Eve in 1936.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Round, Jack People from Brierley Hill English footballers Association football midfielders Brierley Hill Alliance F.C. players Cradley Heath F.C. players Bolton Wanderers F.C. players Port Vale F.C. players Carlisle United F.C. players English Football League players 1903 births 1936 deaths