Jack Zealley

Playing at inside-left for Upton Park at the 1900 Olympics, Zealey was rated one of the outstanding players on the British team and scored once in Upton Park’s 4-0 victory over the French team. A Dorset farmer, Zealley was a stalwart of Bridport FC and played for the club between 1892 and 1910, scoring 73 goals in 226 appearances. He was also a regular with the Dorset County representative side and a frequent guest with Upton Park for their tours of Britain and continental in the first decade of the 20th century. His brother Arthur was an accomplished cricketer who played for Dorset in the Minor Counties Championship. Jack Zealley served with the Dorset Yeomanry in the Boer War and First World War. (Extra information was supplied by Peter Hamersley, Upton Park FC Historian.)