Jack Roberts
Personal information
Full name John Douglas Roberts
Date of birth (1926-11-20)20 November 1926
Place of birth Paynesville, Victoria
Date of death 19 December 1965(1965-12-19) (aged 39)
Place of death Lake Buloke, Victoria
Original team(s) Traralgon
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1947–50 Richmond 26 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1950.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

John Douglas Roberts (20 November 1926 – 19 December 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Roberts struggled to gain a regular place in the Richmond senior side, but did win the Richmond Reserves’ Best and Fairest award in 1949. He subsequently coached country teams in Maffra, Rushworth and Donald.[2]

He drowned at the age of 39 in Lake Buloke (just north of Donald) in December 1965.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 755. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ↑ "Jack Roberts". Tigerland Archive.
  3. ↑ "Deaths". The Age. 22 December 1965.
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