{{short description|British footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{infobox football biography | name = Jock Malloch | fullname = John Napier Malloch | birth_date = 3 November 1877<ref name=litsterprewar>{{cite magazine|title=A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players|author=John Litster|magazine=Scottish Football Historian magazine|date=October 2012}}</ref> | birth_place = Dundee, Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|1935|12|26|1877|02|11|df=y}} | death_place = Moorthorpe, England<ref name=litsterprewar/> | position = Outside left | clubs1 = East Craigie | years2 = 1896–1899 | clubs2 = Dundee | caps2 = 12 | goals2 = 2 | years3 = 1899–1900 | clubs3 = Brighton United | years4 = 1900–1908 | clubs4 = The Wednesday | caps4 = 144 | goals4 = 12 | years5 = 1908–1909 | clubs5 = Barnsley | years6 = 1909–1912 | clubs6 = South Kirkby }}
'''John Napier Malloch''' (2 November 1877 – 26 December 1935) was an English footballer who played as an outside left for Dundee,<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Malloch {{!}} Player Statistics {{!}} Dundee (Dee Archive) |url=https://deearchive.co.uk/player.php?id=163 |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=deearchive.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> The Wednesday, Barnsley and South Kirkby.<ref name="History">{{cite web|title=South Kirkby Colliery (Almost) Complete History|url=http://www.southkirkbycolliery.co.uk/player-a-z|publisher=Matthew Thomas|accessdate=31 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715040026/http://www.southkirkbycolliery.co.uk/player-a-z|archive-date=15 July 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Playing career== Malloch left Dundee for Sheffield Wednesday in 1900 for a fee of £50.<ref>{{cite book|first1= Mark|last1= Metcalfe|first2= Ralph|last2=Nicholson|first3= Clive|last3= Nicholson|title= Flying Over an Olive Grove: The Remarkable Story of Fred Spiksley - A Flawed Football Hero|publisher= epubli|isbn= 9783741861451|year= 2016|page= 238}}</ref> In April 1900 Malloch and fellow Dundee player John Low had been playing together in England and joined The Wednesday (Sheffield) on trial, with their prospective club, Brighton United in financial difficulties.<ref name="Trial">{{cite news|title=Dundee Pros in the South|publisher=Dundee Evening Post|date=13 April 1900|page=3}}</ref> Malloch officially joined Sheffield Wednesday in May.<ref name="JoinsWednesday">{{cite news|title=Sheffield Wednesday Football Club|publisher=Northern Echo|date=3 May 1900|page=4}}</ref> Whilst at the club he won the Football League in the 1902–03 and 1903–04 seasons and was still in the squad in the 1906–07 season when the ''Owls'' won the FA Cup, though he did not play in the competition that season.<ref name="SheffWedArchive">{{cite web|title=Jock Malloch|url=https://www.adrianbullock.com/swfc/stats/play0365.htm|website=The Sheffield Wednesday Archive |publisher=Adrian Bullock|accessdate=31 March 2017}}</ref>
In September 1907 Wednesday were given permission to give Malloch a benefit match.<ref name="Benefit">{{cite news|title=Athletic Jottings|publisher=Dundee Evening Telegraph|date=4 September 1907|page=5}}</ref> Following this Malloch found himself confined to the reserves, and on New Year's Eve 1908 he transferred to local rivals Barnsley.<ref name="Barnsley">{{cite news|title=Wednesday Player Transferred|publisher=Sheffield Daily Telegraph|date=1 January 1909|page=10}}</ref> His time at Barnsley began with a series of poor performances<ref name="PoorForm">{{cite news|title=The Reserves|publisher=Barnsley Chronicle|date=30 January 1909|page=2}}</ref> and by September he had moved on to South Kirkby.<ref name="JoinsKirkby">{{cite news|title=Sheffield Association League|publisher=Sheffield Daily Telegraph|date=27 September 1909|page=3}}</ref>
At South Kirkby, Malloch once again found form and was instrumental in helping the club to the semi-final of the Sheffield Challenge Cup and the final of the Wharncliffe Charity Cup in the 1911–12 season. The final of the Wharncliffe Cup saw Malloch return to familiar territory at Owlerton Stadium, where South Kirkby met his old rivals Sheffield United.<ref name="CupFinals">{{cite news|title=Sheffield Final of Wharncliffe Cup Competition|publisher=Sheffield Evening Telegraph|date=1 April 1912|page=6}}</ref> He also was a pivotal player in the club's run in the FA Cup that season.<ref name="FACup">{{cite news|title=English Cup|publisher=Barnsley Chronicle|date=23 October 1909|page=2}}</ref>
==See also== * List of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
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