Personal information
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Full name | John Drake Scott | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 31 January 1888 Petersham, New South Wales |
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Died | 7 April 1964 South Australia |
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Playing information
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Position | Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||
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J.D. 'Jack' Scott (born 1888 - died 1964) was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer.
Born in Petersham, New South Wales, Jack Scott played as a winger for the Newtown club. Jack Scott scored the first try for Newtown in the 1908 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership. J.D. Scott was also a noted Sheffield Shield cricketer, and later a Test Cricket umpire. He moved to South Australia in 1925, and died at Springbank, Adelaide in 1964. For more information refer: Jack Scott (cricketer).