Forward Jack Evans came to Banbury Spencer in early February of 1954 from Bedworth Town with Ted Roberts going the other way in an exchange deal. Co-incidentally Jack had been the understudy for a number of years to Roberts at Coventry City. He joined City as a professional in May 1947 after playing for their nursery side Modern Machine Tools. He progressed to make eight Football League appearances for Coventry between seasons 1948/49 and 1950/51 inclusive and scored one goal for them. That one goal would come on his debut for the club in a 1-0 win at Highfield Road over Fulham in a Division 2 game in early April 1949.

After leaving Coventry City in 1952, Jack had played for Nuneaton Borough and Rugby Town as well as Bedworth Town prior to joining Spencer.

From joining Spencer in February 1954 to the end of that season, Jack would play at centre forward making 18 appearances and scoring 9 goals. The following two seasons would see Barry Thomas usually at centre forward for Spencer but Jack showed his versatility by playing mainly on the right wing in season 1954/55, mainly at inside left in season 1955/56 and then appearing in all the forward positions in season 1956/57 except inside right. He would be Spencer’s leading league goalscorer in both seasons 1955/56 and 1956/57.

After making a total of 134 appearances for Banbury Spencer between February 1954 and November 1957, scoring 65 goals, he would though rather surprisingly leave the club after a disagreement with manager Jimmy Cringan after being dropped for a game against Gresley Rovers on 2nd November 1957.

Jack would then play for Lockheed Leamington for a number of seasons, winning the West Midlands League Championship and Birmingham Senior Cup double with them in season 1961/62. That season he had scored a hat-trick at the Spencer Stadium on 23rd April in a Birmingham League game as Lockheed won 4-3.

Jack retired from football in 1963 but then had a short spell coaching the reserve side at Lockheed Leamington.

In later life Jack was a keen golfer and died, at the age of 86, after suddenly being taken ill on the golf course at Maxstoke Park, Coleshill, a week ago last Sunday.