Jack Coote
John Joseph Coote was a rugby league footballer who played in the Australian competition, the New [South Wales Rugby League]. A junior of the Eastern Suburbs club, Coote was the father of Australian Rugby League Immortal Ron Coote.
Playing career
A forward, Coote played in some of the great Easts' sides of the mid-thirties, highlighted by an appearance in the New [South Wales Rugby Football League season 1936|1936 premiership decider]. Coote also won two further premierships with Eastern Suburbs in 1935 and 1937.Coote played five first grade seasons with Eastern Suburbs: 1929, 1930, 1935, 1936 and 1937. During the early 1930s, Coote was captain-coach of Condobolin, [New South Wales] and won premiership shield with them in 1931. He retired at the end of the 1937 NSWRFL season.