Jack Hampstead
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Jack Hampstead (born in Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the Balmain Tigers and for the New South Wales Rugby League team. He played 105 games between 1940 and 1950, playing Centre, and later Lock. He played in the premiership-winning Balmain teams of 1944 and 1946.
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 he lost fourteen of the eighteen, and won just four. He did not coach first-grade again.
Jack Hampstead died in 1992.
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