Jack Hampstead

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playername = Jack Hampstead
fullname = Jack Hampstead

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dateofdeath = 1992
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Jack Hampstead (born in Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the Balmain Tigers and the New South Wales Rugby League team.

Jack Hampstead died in 1992.

Sean Hampstead, the first grade referee is Jack's grandson.

Playing career

Jack played 108 first grade games between 1939 and 1951, playing Centre, and later Lock. He played in the premiership-winning Balmain teams of 1944 and 1946.

Coaching

For the 1953 season, Hampstead became the Canterbury-Bankstown coach. Of that year's eighteen matches, he won nine, and lost seven. However, in 1954 he lost fourteen of the eighteen, and won just four. He did not coach first-grade again.

References

1. http://www.rl1908.com/Legends/dunn.htm

2. http://www.tigers.org.au/Football_club/legends/legendtabs.html