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 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 played his club rugby at Sydney University and took up rowing at the senior level with the Sydney Rowing Club. He stroked a junior VIII for the club in 1964 and stroked a coxed pair to a state championship in the 1964/65 season.