Career
Born in Bootle, Merseyside, England, Parkinson began his career at Anfield rising through the youth ranks and breaking into the first team in 1903. He made his debut on 3 October in a 2-1 victory against Small Heath at Muntz Street, scoring after sixteen minutes. That season Parkinson scored six goals in seventeen games, and in the 1904-1905 season he scored 21 times in 23 appearances.
Injury hampered Parkinson"s career to some extent, including a broken wrist sustained in a match against Woolwich Arsenal in Liverpool"s championship-winning season of 1905-1906.
He played nine times in the campaign, scoring seven goals, though this was not enough appearances to qualify for a medal. Parkinson"s most prolific season for the Reds was the 1910-1911 campaign, which saw him top the league"s goalscoring list with thirty goals in 31 games.
Over the following three seasons, Parkinson scored a further 43 times. The 1913-1914 season proved to be Parkinson"s final for Liverpool, making only six appearances, his last being a 2-1 defeat at Burden Park against Bolton on 14 February 1914.
He moved to Bury in 1914 and retired from the game during World War I to become a newsagent.
Jack was the great grandfather of the current Liverpool Football Club"s Operations Director, Andrew Parkinson. Football League Second Division.