Jack Clare

Jack Clare
Playing information
PositionFive-eighth
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1947 Balmain Tigers 1 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
1974 Penrith Panthers 22 9 0 13 41

Jack Clare is an Australian former rugby league player and coach.

Clare's career in first-grade was limited to one appearance during the 1947 NSWRFL season, standing in for Pat Devery at five-eighth in a round 13 match against South Sydney.[1] He later served the club as a selector.[2]

A former coach of Grenfell in the Maher Cup, Clare was a relative unknown when chosen to succeed Leo Trevena as Penrith coach at the end of the 1973 season, heading a four-man panel which included Roy Masters as skills coach. The Panthers finished in ninth position and he was replaced the following season by Mike Stephenson.[3]

  1. ^ "Passes From The Scrums". The Daily Mirror. 19 July 1947. p. 9 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Penrith's gamble on coach". The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 October 1973.
  3. ^ "Sheen will put the cleaners through Penrith". The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 March 1984.