John Leslie Patrick "Jake" Howard (30 August 1945 – 11 December 2015) was an international rugby footballer who played prop for Australia.
Howard was schooled at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill from 1957[2] and enjoyed enormous schoolboy sporting success playing in the college's 1st XV in four consecutive years 1960–63 and rowing in the 1st VIII for three years.
He coached rugby at the Sydney University club, at the University of Queensland's rugby club and in assisting roles with the 1991 and 1992 Wallabies focussing on scrum play emphasising the power of the front-row.
[5] Their son Pat Howard[5] (born 1973) played centre and fly-half for the Wallabies from 1993 to 1997.
Margariete Howard was thus the daughter, wife and mother of a Wallaby.