John Naumann was a right-hand batsman and left-arm slow medium bowler who played 17 matches in 1925.
He scored 408 runs average 13.16 and took 2 wickets. He won a blue at Cambridge University when his brother Frank played in opposition for Oxford University. In the same match F.W. Gilligan (Essex) appeared for Oxford and A.E.R. Gilligan, his brother, for Cambridge.