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Jack Crawford (other)
Jack Crawford may refer to: Sports * Jack Crawford (cricketer) (1886–1963), Surrey and South Australia all-rounder * Jackie Crawford (1896–1975), English footballer during the 1920s and 1930s * Jack Crawford (tennis) (1908–1991), Australian tennis player of the 1930s * Jack Crawford (ice hockey) (1916–1973), Canadian ice hockey defenceman and coach * Jack Crawford (American football) (born 1988), American football player * Jack Crawford (alpine skier) (born 1997), Canadian skier Other * Jack Crawford (sailor) (1775–1831), sailor of the Royal Navy known as the Hero of Camperdown * John Wallace Crawford (1847–1917), a.k.a. "Captain Jack", American Civil War veteran, Old West scout and poet * Jack Randall Crawford (1878–1968), author and professor of English at Yale University * Jack Crawford (politician) (1916–1982), Australian politician * Jack Crawford (character), fictional FBI agent in Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels and films See also * Jak Crawford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Crawford (cricketer)
John Neville Crawford (1 December 1886 – 2 May 1963) was an English first-class cricketer who played mainly for Surrey County Cricket Club and South Australia. An amateur, he played as an all-rounder. As a right-handed batsman, Crawford had a reputation for scoring quickly and hitting powerful shots. He bowled medium-paced off spin and was noted for his accuracy and his ability to make the ball turn sharply from the pitch. Unusually for a first-class cricketer, Crawford wore spectacles while playing. Crawford established a reputation as an outstanding cricketer while still a schoolboy. He played Test cricket for England before he was 20 years old, and successfully toured Australia with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1907–08. He played only 12 matches for England, although critics believed he had a great future in the sport and was a potential future England captain. In two successive English seasons, he completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in first-clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Crawford
John Forsyth Crawford (26 September 1896 – 27 September 1975) was an English footballer who played as an winger throughout his career. Playing career Born in Jarrow, Crawford started his professional career with Hull City, before signing for Chelsea for £3,000 in May 1923. He quickly became a regular in the side for the next five years, and after several near-misses, eventually helped them gain promotion back to the First Division in 1929-30. Thereafter, the ageing Crawford was overshadowed by new star signings like Hughie Gallacher and Alex Jackson, and joined Queens Park Rangers in 1934. He made 308 appearances for Chelsea, scoring 27 goals. International career Crawford was capped once for England, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–0 loss to Scotland at Hampden Park Hampden Park (Scottish Gaelic: ''Pàirc Hampden''), often referred to as Hampden, is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The -capacity venue serves as the nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Crawford (tennis)
John Herbert Crawford, (22 March 1908 – 10 September 1991) was an Australian tennis player during the 1930s. He was the World No. 1 amateur for 1933, during which year he won the Australian Open, the French Open, and Wimbledon, and was runner-up at the U.S. Open in five sets, thus missing the Grand Slam by one set that year. He also won the Australian Open in 1931, 1932, and 1935. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1979. Early life Crawford was born on 22 March 1908 in Urangeline, near Albury, New South Wales, the second youngest child of Jack Sr. and Lottie Crawford. He had no tennis training as a child and practised mainly by hitting against the house and school and playing his older brother. Crawford played his first competition match at age 12 in a mixed doubles match at the Haberfield club. He won the Australian junior championships four consecutive times from 1926 to 1929 which entitled him to the permanent possession of the trophy. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Crawford (ice Hockey)
John Shea Crawford (October 26, 1916 – January 19, 1973) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and coach. He was born in Dublin, Ontario. Despite Crawford's preference to be called "Johnny" or "John", the media often referred to him as "Jack". Crawford started his National Hockey League career with the Boston Bruins in 1938. He played his entire career with the Bruins and retired after the 1950 season. In 1943 and 1946, he was a member of the NHL All-Star team. He won two Stanley Cups with Boston 1939, 1941. Crawford coached 659 games in the American Hockey League (10th on the all-time list) with the Hershey Bears (1950–52), Providence Reds (1955–60), Rochester Americans (1961–62), and Baltimore Clippers (1964-66). He was the general manager of the Cape Cod Cubs of the Eastern Hockey League The Eastern Hockey League was a minor professional United States ice hockey league. Eastern Amateur Hockey League (1933–1953) The league was founded in 1933 as the Eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Crawford (American Football)
Jack Justin Crawford (born 7 September 1988) is a former English American football defensive end. He played college football at Penn State University and was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL Draft. He has also played for the Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Falcons, Tennessee Titans, and Arizona Cardinals. Early years Growing up in Kilburn, London, he attended high school at the City of London School, where he was in the same class as Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe. At the age of seven, Crawford was diagnosed with alopecia universalis, a rare, autoimmune disease causing the total loss of all hair on the body. After moving to the United States in 2005, he attended St. Augustine Preparatory School while he resided in Longport, New Jersey. Although he intended to pursue basketball, he couldn't play as a sophomore because of an international transfer rule and decided to join the American football team with no previous experience. As a senior, he found s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Crawford (alpine Skier)
James "Jack" Crawford (born 3 May 1997) is a Canadian World Cup alpine ski racer. He specializes in super-G, and also competes in giant slalom, downhill, and combined. Crawford made his World Cup debut in January 2016 in a super-G at Kitzbühel, Austria. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics, and the World Championships in 2019 and 2021, where he was fourth in the combined event. At the 2023 World Championships in Courchevel, Crawford won his first gold medal in Super-G. In January 2022, Crawford was named to Canada's Olympic team; he was fourth in the downhill, sixth in the super-G, and won the bronze medal in the combined. Crawford's older sister Candace is also an alpine racer; their aunt is Judy Crawford, who finished fourth in the slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics at Sapporo. World Cup results Season standings Race podiums * 0 wins * 4 podiums (3 DH, 1 SG); 14 top tens (7 DH, 7 SG) World Championship results Olympic results References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Crawford (sailor)
Jack Crawford (22 March 1775 – 10 November 1831) was a sailor of the Royal Navy known as the "Hero of Camperdown." Biography Crawford was born in Thornhill's Bank (now Pottery Bank) in the East End of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland. He was a keelman until 1786 when, aged 11 or 12, he joined the crew of the ''Peggy'' at South Shields as an apprentice. He joined the Royal Navy in 1796, possibly as a result of being press-ganged but he may have volunteered, and served on HMS Venerable (1784), HMS ''Venerable'' under Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, Admiral Duncan the Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief of the North Seas. At the Battle of Camperdown off the Dutch coast (11 October 1797), ''Venerable'' was Admiral Duncan's flagship. During the battle, part of the ''Venerable's'' mast was felled, including the admiral's flag. Lowering the Admiral's personal flag was a sign of surrender, and even an unintentional fall was unacceptable. Despite being under intense g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wallace Crawford
John Wallace ("Captain Jack") Crawford (1847–1917), known as "The Poet Scout", was an American adventurer, educator, and author. "Captain Jack" was a master storyteller about the Wild West and is known in American history as one of the most popular performers in the late nineteenth century. His daring ride of 350 miles in six days to carry dispatches to Fort Laramie for the ''New York Herald'', to tell the news of the great victory by Gen. George Crook against the village of Chief American Horse at the Battle of Slim Buttes during the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877, made him a national celebrity. Early life Crawford was born in Carndonagh, North Donegal, Ireland, on March 4, 1847. His parents were both born in Scotland. John Wallace's father, John A. Crawford, was banished from Scotland for making revolutionary speeches and fled to Ireland. Like many Scots-Irish of that time, the Crawfords moved and settled for a time in Ulster, in northern Ireland. At age fourteen, Crawfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Randall Crawford
Jack Randall Crawford (1878–1968) was an author of novels (many unpublished), plays, and literary criticism and a professor of English at Yale University; he is perhaps best known for his 1922 autobiographical novel ''I Walked in Arden'' and his 1928 nonfiction ''What to Read in English Literature''. Biography Crawford received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1901. He became an instructor in English at Yale University and also Director of Dramatics at Dartmouth College. He was a professor of English at Yale University from 1909-1946 and then professor emeritus from 1946 until his death in 1968. In addition to his novels, plays, and literary criticism, he wrote an autobiography and edited several of Shakespeare's plays for Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Crawford (politician)
Jack Mitchell Crawford (1 March 1916 – 18 August 1982) was an Australian politician. He was born in Armidale to overseer Alexander Crawford and Ethel Mallam. He was a stock worker at Trangie, and from 1939 to 1945 served in the AIF, attaining the rank of major. On his return he moved to Dubbo. In 1941 he had married Joan Brooks; they had three daughters. A member of the Country Party, he was on the party council from 1959 to 1977, the central executive from 1959 to 1971, and was vice-chairman from 1962 to 1963. He was briefly a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving from February to April 1970. Crawford died at Glebe Glebe (; also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson's close(s))McGurk 1970, p. 17 is an area of land within an ecclesiastical parish used to support a parish priest. The land may be owned by the church, or its profits may be reserved ... in 1982. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Crawford, Jack 1916 births 1982 deaths National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Crawford (character)
Jack Crawford is a fictional character who appears in the ''Hannibal Lecter'' series of novels by Thomas Harris, in which Crawford is the Agent-in-Charge of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI in Quantico, Virginia. He is modeled after John E. Douglas, who held the same position. ''Red Dragon'' Jack Crawford first appears in the novel '' Red Dragon'', in which he calls upon Will Graham, his former protégé, for assistance in solving the murders being committed by a serial killer dubbed "The Tooth Fairy." Graham, as a profiler, has a reputation for being able to think like the criminals whom he hunts, thus assisting the FBI in a criminal's ultimate apprehension. Graham had retired after being attacked and nearly killed by Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a Baltimore psychiatrist who had previously treated the victim of a murder that Graham was investigating, after Graham intuited that Lecter was the killer he sought. Crawford convinces Graham to come out of retirement to help solve the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jak Crawford
Carlton Jackston "Jak" Crawford (born 2 May 2005) is an American racing driver who most recently competed in the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship with Prema Racing. He is a member of the Red Bull Junior Team and finished as runner-up in the 2020 ADAC Formula 4 Championship. Career Karting Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Crawford started his karting career in 2011 after he moved to the Houston, Texas area. He competed in multiple championships, predominantly in North America, winning the Challenge of the Americas - Junior Rotax Series among others. In Crawford's first overseas karting race in 2014 at the Rok Cup International Championship, while only 9 years old, he finished second. Other international karting competition was mostly sporadic but generally successful. Lower formulae In 2018, Crawford made his car racing debut in the NACAM Formula 4 Championship, driving for Scuderia Martiga EG. He won six races, and with eight further podiums the American driver finished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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