Editing Jake Howard (section)

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| birth_name = John Leslie Patrick Howard
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'''John Leslie Patrick "Jake" Howard''' (30 August 1945{{snd}}11 December 2015) was an international rugby footballer who played prop for [[Australia national rugby union team|Australia]].

Howard was schooled at [[St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill]] from 1957<ref name="SJC OBU magazine Mar2016">''Cerise & Blue obituary'' Mar2016</ref> and enjoyed enormous schoolboy sporting success playing in the college's 1st XV in four consecutive years 1960–63 and rowing in the 1st VIII for three years.<ref name="SJC OBU magazine Mar2016" /> He played his club rugby at [[Sydney University]] and took up rowing at the senior level with the [[Sydney Rowing Club]].<ref name="SJC News p13">''SJC News'', article by James Gray p13</ref> He stroked a junior VIII for the club in 1964 and stroked a coxed pair to a state championship in the 1964/65 season.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/club-histories/sydney/11-4.php |title=Guerin-Foster History of Austn Rowing |access-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528215443/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/club-histories/sydney/11-4.php |archive-date=28 May 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Howard made his international rugby debut on 6 June 1970 against [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]] and went on to make six further international representative appearances between 1970 and 1973. His final Test appearance was on the [[1973 Australia rugby union tour of Europe|1973 tour of Wales and England]].

He coached rugby at the [[Sydney University]] club, at the University of Queensland's rugby club and in assisting roles with the 1991 and 1992 [[Wallabies (rugby union)|Wallabies]] focussing on scrum play emphasising the power of the front-row.<ref name="SJC OBU magazine Mar2016" />

His wife Margariete was the daughter of [[Australia national rugby union team|Wallaby]] [[Cyril Towers]].<ref name="courier" /> Their son [[Pat Howard]]<ref name="courier">{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22179259-10389,00.html|title=Howard to chart course|last=Tucker|first=Jim|date=2 August 2007|work=The Courier-Mail|accessdate=2009-10-04}}</ref> (born 1973) played centre and fly-half for the Wallabies from 1993 to 1997. Margariete Howard was thus the daughter, wife and mother of a [[Australia national rugby union team|Wallaby]].

Jake Howard died on 11 December 2015 at the age of 70.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vale Jake Howard|url=http://aru.rugby.com.au/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1699/ArticleID/17177/Vale-Jake-Howard.aspx|website=aru.rugby.com.au|accessdate=13 December 2015|date=13 December 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222074403/http://aru.rugby.com.au/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1699/ArticleID/17177/Vale-Jake-Howard.aspx|archivedate=22 December 2015}}</ref>