John Charles McDonald (14 September 1914 — 2 September 1983) was an Australian

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

international. A native of

Toowoomba Toowoomba ( , nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar') is a city in the Toowoomba Region of the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. It is west of Queensland's capital city Brisbane by road. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the 2021 C ...

, McDonald attended

Toowoomba Grammar School , motto_translation = Faithful in All Things , city = Toowoomba , state = Queensland , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Independent, day & boarding , denomination = Non-denominational , established = ...

and played his rugby for Past Grammars. He gained two caps for the

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as a loose forward in the home 1938

Bledisloe Cup The Bledisloe Cup is an annual rugby union competition originally staged between the national teams of Australia's Wallabies and New Zealand's All Blacks that has been contested since the 1930s. The frequency that the competition is held has va ...

series against the

All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987 ...

and was also on the 1939–40 tour of Britain that had to be abandoned two days after they arrived due to the war. McDonald, a printer by profession, was the father of Australian rugby league international, Manly Warringah captain and Queensland coach John McDonald. His grandson, Geoff McDonald, became mayor of

in 2023.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McDonald, Jack 1914 births 1983 deaths Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Rugby union flankers Rugby union players from Toowoomba People educated at Toowoomba Grammar School

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