Jack Knight (footballer)

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Jack Knight
Personal information
Full name	Jack Knight
Date of birth	21 November 1912
Original team	South Bendigo
Height/Weight	183 cm / 80 kg
Position(s)	Ruckman
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1934-40 1941-42 Total	Collingwood St Kilda	104 (85) 24 (16) 128 (101)
Coaching career
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
1941	St Kilda	18 (3)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1942 season.

Jack 'Cracker' Knight (born 21 November 1912) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1930s and played for and coached St Kilda during the early 1940s.

A ruckman from South Bendigo, Knight wasn't selected in Collingwood's 1935 premiership team despite playing in the Preliminary Final. He made up for it by participating in the 1936 Grand Final, where he played in a forward pocket and kicked a goal in the win. Disappointment followed in 1937 when a six-week suspension for striking Ron Baggott of Melbourne in the Prelim cost him another Grand Final place but he would appear in the next two season's premiership deciders.

Knight transferred to St Kilda in 1941 as captain-coach but the club struggled and although he stayed on for another season, it was as a player only.

References

Jack Knight's statistics from AFL Tables
Full Points Footy: Jack Knight
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

v t e Collingwood Football Club 1936 VFL Premiers

Collingwood 11.23 (89) defeated South Melbourne 10.18 (78), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Captain: 1. H. Collier 2. A. Collier 3. Bowyer 4. Carmody 7. Doherty 8. Froude 9. Fraser 12. Knight 12. Kyne 13. Morgan 16. Regan 17. Riley 18. Ross 19. Stackpole 20. Todd 21. Pannam 21. Whelan 22. Woods 34. Crowe

Coach: McHale

Captains of the St Kilda Football Club

1897–1899: Shaw
1900: Sandford
1901: McKay
1901: J. Smith
1902: Hogan
1903: Jackson
1903–1904: J. Smith
1905: Barwick
1906: J. Smith
1907–1908: Wells
1909: Barwick
1910: Gravenall
1911: Dangerfield
1912: Morrissey
1913–1914: Lever
1914: McNamara
1915: Dangerfield
1918: Lever
1919: Eicke
1920: Cazaly
1921: Ricketts
1921: Williams
1922: Cubbins
1923: McNamara
1924: Eicke
1925: Cubbins
1925: Carr
1926: Cubbins
1927: Haines
1927–1928: Mason
1928–1930: Cubbins
1931: Matthews
1932: King
1933: Deane
1933: Hindson
1934: Watson
1935: Hindson
1936: Perkins
1937: Mohr
1938–1939: Clarke
1940: Lloyd
1941: Knight
1942–1943: Garvin
1944: Kelly
1944–1945: Vontom
1946–1947: Hird
1949–1950: Green
1948: Bray
1949–1950: Green
1951–1953: Drinan
1954–1955: Foote
1956–1957: Drinan
1958: Gleeson
1959–1962: Roberts
1963–1968: Baldock
1969: Stewart
1970–1972: R. Smith
1973: Trott
1974–1975: Lawrence
1976–1977: Ditterich
1978: Colling
1979: Breen
1980: Sidebottom
1981: Jesaulenko
1981–1982: Duperouzel
1983–1986: Barker
1987–1995: Frawley
1996–1998: Burke/Loewe
1999–2000: Burke
2001–2002: Harvey
2003: Hamill
2004: Hayes
2005: Riewoldt
2006: Ball
2007: Ball/Hayes/Riewoldt
2008–: Riewoldt

v t e Coaches of the St Kilda Football Club

1906: Hall 1908: Grace 1909: J. Smith 1911: Drohan 1913: Sparrow 1914: McNamara 1915; 1918:* J. Smith 1919: Eicke 1920: Sparrow 1920–1921: Ricketts 1922–1923: McNamara 1924: Eicke 1925–1926: Clark 1927: Heinz 1928–1929: Sparrow 1930: Cubbins 1931–1932: Hardy 1932: King 1933: Deane 1934: C. Watson 1935–1937: Minogue 1938–1940: Clarke 1938: B. Patterson 1941: Knight 1942–1943: Garvin 1944–1945: H. Thomas 1946–1947: Hird 1948–1950: Froude 1951: Green 1952–1953: Williamson 1954–1955: Foote 1956–1958: Killigrew 1959–1960: Francis 1961–1976: Jeans 1972; 1974: Guy 1977: R. Smith 1978–1980: M. Patterson 1980–1982: Jesaulenko 1983–1984: Jewell 1984–1986: Gellie 1987–1989: Baldock 1987: Davis 1990–1993: Sheldon 1994–1998: Alves 1999–2000: T. Watson 2001: Blight 2001–2006: G. Thomas 2007–2011: Lyon 2012–2013: Watters 2014–: Richardson

St Kilda did not participate in the VFL from 1916–1917 due to World War I Italics* denote caretaker coach

Persondata
Name	Knight, Jack
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	21 November 1912
Place of birth	?
Date of death
Place of death

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