Readers of the Western Morning News have a chance to take part in an ambitious cut-out-and-keep project to mark 100 years of professional football in Plymouth.

The paper is producing 100 anniversary pages for readers to collect.

They will feature 100 great Plymouth Argyll players and 100 great matches involving the team.

A special promotion binder has been created to store the collection.

One of the first to get the WMN treatment was Robert Jack – Argyle’s first professional player and manager of the club in four different decades.

He was born in 1876 and his first career was supposed to be law. But football was his hobby and it was to become his profession after he joined his home-town club Alloa, for whom he was playing at the age of 15.

From there he moved on to Bolton Wanderers, Preston North End and Port Vale before he arrived in Plymouth at the age of 27.

He was a left-winger, with a good turn of speed, who was feared by full-backs for his ability to beat his man.

In the summer of 1905 his role changed when the manager moved on. The Argyle board turned to Jack to become player-manager.

He chose himself for the opening Southern League game, a 2-0 home win over Norwich City in which he scored the opening goal.

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