Jack Reynolds (1881-1962)

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Jack Reynolds
Personal information
Full name	John Reynolds
Date of birth	23 September 1881
Place of birth	Manchester, England
Date of death	8 November 1962
Place of death	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Playing position	Winger
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1902 1903 1904-05 1905-06	Manchester City Burton United Grimsby Town Sheffield Wednesday Watford New Brompton Rochdale	0 (0) 32 (3) 29 (3) 2 (0)
Teams managed
1912-14 1915-25 1925-28 1928-40 1945-47	St. Gallen Ajax Amsterdam Blauw Wit Ajax Amsterdam Ajax Amsterdam
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

John "Jack" Reynolds (b. Manchester, 23 September 1881, d. 8 November 1962) was an Englishman who was the manager of Ajax Amsterdam from 1915-1925, 1928-1940, and 1945-1947. He was one of the pioneers of the Total Football system of playing and was considered to be among the best managers the team has had. He was also somewhat famous as a manager in Switzerland with St. Gallen.

Contents 1 Undistinguished playing career 2 FC St. Gallen 3 Ajax Amsterdam 4 World War II 5 Honours 5.1 Ajax Amsterdam 6 Bibliography 7 External links

[edit] Undistinguished playing career

Reynolds was not highly regarded as a player and played for several clubs without much success, the high point being a season in the Second division with Grimsby Town in 1904-05.

[edit] FC St. Gallen

Reynolds started his career as a coach with St. Gallen in 1912, after a 2 year stay he left to become coach of the German national football team, but the outbreak of World War I prevented that and he moved to The Netherlands instead.

[edit] Ajax Amsterdam

In 1915 Reynolds started his 27 year association with Ajax, where he pioneered the Total Football system of playing and started the highly successful Ajax youth system. During his three spells with the club they won the Eredivisie (Dutch top division) 8 times and the KNVB Cup (Dutch FA cup) once - Ajax had not won either before. After Reynolds retired in 1947 He lived in Amsterdam until his death in 1962, 3 years later in 1965 a stand at the De Meer Stadion was named after him.

[edit] World War II

When the Nazis invaded The Netherlands in 1940, Reynolds was interned in Tost in Upper Silesia (now in Poland), along with other foreign nationals including P.G. Wodehouse.

[edit] Honours

[edit] Ajax Amsterdam

• Eredivisie: 8
  

1918, 1919, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939, 1947

• KNVB Cup: 1
  

1917

[edit] Bibliography

• Simon Kuper, Ajax, The Dutch, The War, Orion, London, 2003, ISBN 0-7528-4274-9
• Lamming, Douglas (1985). A Who's Who of Grimsby Town AFC 1890-1985. Hutton Press. ISBN 0-907033-34-2. 

[edit] External links

• El Bombín - Jack Reynolds, The Founder Of The ‘Ajax-Style’
• Ajax USA - 1915 - 1949: The Jack Reynolds Era
• electronicfishcake.com - The Jack Reynolds Story