Mexborough and Swinton Times April 19, 1929

Wombwell F. C. Secretary

Mr. John Pascoe to Resign

Midland League football in Wombwell will suffer a loss at the end of the season when Mr. John Pascoe resigns the secretaryship. Mr. Pascoe’s intention was communicated to the directors this week and, needless to say, caused general regret.

This will be shared by every supporter of the club and, in a wider sense, in all places where Midland League football officials meet to exchange notes and pay compliments: Mr. Pascoe is relinquishing the position for health reasons. His physical condition has been causing anxiety for some time, and it was in the hope of finding recuperation that he recently spent short periods at convalescent homes at Scarborough and Blackpool. As a result of these precautions is health has improved considerably, but he has decide to shed some of his many responsibilities.

There were many who would have persuaded him from his decision regarding the football feel, but his friends know he acted prudently. The resignation will be a wrench to Mr. Pascoe himself.

He has been associated with the Wombwell Football Club since its foundation.  He was originally a playing member and it was because of his practical knowledge of the game that he fitted so well into the secretarial position. The players’ have had confident in his judgment, realising that he was in a position to view a proposition from their angle and would not ask anything impossible.

When Wombwell figured so well in the Yorkshire League he was an indispensable member of the side and figured in some of the most momentous encounters. He had the honour of netting the first goal ever scored on the Wombwell ground (against Fryston, in the Yorkshire League, in 1919), won a Sheffield Challenge Cup medal with Wombwell in 1922-23 and figured in the epic duel in which Wombwell (then in the Yorkshire League) ousted Doncaster Rovers (then in the Midland League) from the English Cup Competition.

Five years ago, Mr. Pascoe took over the duties of secretary, in which capacity he has given the club faithful and capable service. His cheerful loyalty has been an inspiration to others during the difficult time Wombwell has experienced the past two or three seasons.

Apart from his associations with football, Mr Pascoe as responsibilities as a member of the Wombwell Urban District Council, branch official of the Yorkshire Miners Association at Darfield Main, and as a local preacher in the Wesleyan Circuit.

The question of a successor has not yet been discussed