Jack Owens

Jack Owens (3 August 1902 – 26 September 1942 ) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) during the 1920s and 1930s.

Life and career Originally from the West Broken Hill club, Owens was a miner in that city at eighteen, and during this work he suffered severely from dust in his lungs. The youngest of four Glenelg recruits from Broken Hill in 1923 and 1924, Only seven years later, in 1942, he died after a long illness.

In 2002 Owens was in the first group of players inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.