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John Frederick "Jack" Rowley (* October 7th 1918 in Wolverhampton ; †June 28th 1998 in Shaw and Crompton ) was a English Soccer player and soccer coach. The national player Rowley, known as a striker, was with Manchester United 1948 cup winners and 1952 champions. The station stands out in particular from his coaching career Ajax Amsterdam where he acted in the 1963/64 season.
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Rowley joined in 1937 after brief stints Wolverhampton Wanderers and Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic FC In 1937 for £ 3,000 to the second division side Manchester United , where he soon gained the nickname thanks to his scoring risk The Gunner, the gunner. earned.
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Rowley made his first appearance for United in October 1937 against Sheffield Wednesday . At the end of the season United rose as second in the table for the first time since 1931 back in the first division. During the war he served at South Staffordshire Regiment and was at the D-Day landing involved in Normandy. During the war he was also a guest player at Wolverhampton Wanderers, Aldershot, Belfast Distillery , Folkestone, Shrewsbury Town and Tottenham Hotspur .
After the breakout of peace he was back at Manchester United and won there under coach Matt Busby the FA Cup 1947/48 , where he beat in a 4-2 final win Blackpool FC scored two hits, and in 1952 the English championship. He stayed in Manchester through January 1955. For United he scored a total of 211 goals in 424 games, of which 173 goals in 355 top division games. In 1952/53 he was third on the list of goalscorers with 30 goals, behind the Chilean Jorge "George" Robledo and Ronnie Allen with 33 or 32 hits.