Jack Why (3 April 1903 – 14 May 1944) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s.
[2] A South Sydney junior,[3] Why began his first-grade NSWRFL Premiership career during the 1926 season.
[4] At the end of the 1928 NSWRFL season he played at centre in South Sydney's grand final victory against Eastern Suburbs, and in 1929 at lock forward in their grand final win over Newtown.
He was chosen as a reserve for the 3rd Test against Great Britain at the SCG on 16 July 1932, but did not take the field.
[7] Why died in 1944 while rabbiting with his son and friends in the Victorian township of Bacchus Marsh, west of Melbourne.