Jack Hampstead (1920-1992) was an Australian professional
rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s, and
coach
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ed in the 1950s. A New South Wales state representative lock forward, he played in Sydney's
NSWRFL Premiership for the
Balmain club. Hampstead later became coach of the
Canterbury-Bankstown club. His grandson is
National Rugby League former referee
Sean Hampstead.
Playing career
Born in
Sydney, New South Wales
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, Hampstead played 108 first grade games between 1939 and 1951, playing , and later . He played in the premiership-winning Balmain teams of
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
and
1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
* January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
.
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
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
he lost fourteen of the eighteen, and won just four. He did not coach first-grade again.
Hampstead was a member of the
Balmain Tigers' board until his death in 1992.
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20110514025238/http://rl1908.com/Legends/dunn.htm
*https://web.archive.org/web/20080719182615/http://www.tigers.org.au/Football_club/legends/legendtabs.html
1920 births
1992 deaths
Australian rugby league coaches
Australian rugby league players
Balmain Tigers players
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs coaches
City New South Wales rugby league team players
New South Wales rugby league team players
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from Sydney
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