Jack Fletcher Jr.

Jack Fletcher Jr. was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in South Australia in the early twentieth century. Before he took up the football code he was a successful lacrosse player in inter-state matches, and the article records that he returned to lacrosse after his football career. He was captain of Port Adelaide when the club won the premiership in 1906, a result that makes him one of the club captains remembered for that season. The source says nothing about his birth or death dates, so his life span is not given here. His case shows how athletes of that period moved between football and lacrosse, two winter and summer games that shared many players in Adelaide clubs, and he is recorded in this atlas as a football player who also played lacrosse.