| Jack Howard | |
| Full Name: | John Howard |
| Birth Date: | 20 March 1913 |
| Birth Place: | Nambour, QLD, Australia |
| Position: | Wing |
| Repyears1: | 1938 |
| Repcaps1: | 2 |
| Reppoints1: | 0 |
John Howard (20 March 1913 — 28 August 1979) was an Australian rugby union international.
Born in Nambour, Howard is a descendent of Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick. He was previously erroneously reported by historians and officials to have been an Indigenous Australian.[1] [2]
Howard was originally a Nambour rugby league player, before switching to rugby union in the mid-1930s.[2]
A winger, Howard played his first-grade rugby in Brisbane for Bretts-Windsor and Brothers. He was capped twice by the Wallabies in 1938, against the All Blacks for Bledisloe Cup matches in Sydney and Brisbane.[3] The Wallabies didn't play another Test match for eight years due to the war. He went back to Nambour in 1939 and returned to rugby league.[2]