Jack Hampstead

Jack Hampstead was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s, and coached 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, Hampstead played 108 first grade games between 1939 and 1951, playing, and later. He played in the premiership-winning Balmain teams of 1944 and 1946.

Coaching

For the 1953 season, Hampstead became the Bulldogs [Rugby League Football Club|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.
Hampstead was a member of the Balmain Tigers' board until his death in 1992.