Jack Robertson

Jack Robertson may refer to:

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Jack Robertson (footballer, born 1889)

Jack Robertson (22 July 1889 – 20 July 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Biography

Robertson came to the VFL from Port Melbourne Railway United. He started his league career as a wingman, before later playing as a centre. His play has been described as "flashy", on occasion he would hold onto the ball for too long. He made 60 senior appearances for Melbourne, from 1909 to 1913.

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Jack Robertson (English cricketer)

John David Benbow “Jack” Robertson (22 February 1917 – 12 October 1996) was an English cricketer, who played county cricket for Middlesex, and in eleven Tests for England.

A right-handed opening batsman of consistency and class, Jack Robertson was a heavy scorer in county cricket who averaged 46 runs per innings in Tests. Yet he played only eleven times for England, was dropped after making a century in 1949, and was never selected to face Australia.

Born in Chiswick, London, England, it was Robertson’s misfortune to be overshadowed by others, both in his international and county cricket career. He came to prominence in wartime cricket for the Army when he scored 102 in July 1942 against the Royal Navy. For the first half dozen years of cricket after World War II, England's preferred opening partnership was the trans-Pennine combination of Leonard Hutton and Cyril Washbrook; Robertson's selection for the first Test of 1949 against New Zealand was the result of injury to Washbrook and, despite scoring 121 and sharing a partnership of 143 with Hutton, he lost his place.

Jack Robertson (politician)

Jack George Robertson (November 11, 1928 – December 7, 1971) was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1975 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.

Political career

Robertson ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1971 Alberta general election. He defeated Social Credit incumbent Galen Norris in a hotly contested straight fight to pick up the Stettler electoral district for the Progressive Conservatives.

Robertson died on December 7, 1971.

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Jack Robertson (South African cricketer)

John Benjamin "Jack" Robertson (born 5 June 1906 in Wynberg, Cape Town, Cape Province, died 5 July 1985 in Cape Town) was a South African cricketer who played in three Tests in 1935-36.

Early cricket

Robertson was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm bowler who could bowl either medium-pace or off-breaks. He played first-class cricket for Western Province from 1931-32 to 1936-37 and had occasional bowling success, including taking six Griqualand West first-innings wickets for 22 runs in 1933-34. He was not, however, picked for the 1935 South African tour to England. The following winter, however, the Australians toured South Africa and, playing for Western Province in one of the warm-up matches before the Test series, Robertson took eight Australian wickets for 96 runs in the touring team's only innings of the game. They were the best bowling figures of his career and they propelled him into the South African team for the first Test.

Test cricket

Jack Robertson (footballer, born 1902)

Jack Robertson (23 June 1902 – 23 December 1972) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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