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{{short description|American basketball player}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name            = Jack McCracken
| image           = 
| number          =  3
| position        = [[Forward (basketball)|Forward]]
| height_ft       = 6
| height_in       = 2
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| league          = 
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1912|06|15}}
| birth_place     =  [[Chickasha, Oklahoma]], U.S.
| death_date      = {{death date and age|1958|01|5|1912|06|1}}
| death_place     = [[Denver, Colorado]], U.S.
| high_school     = [[Classen High School|Classen]] ([[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]]) 
| college         = [[Northwest Missouri State Bearcats men's basketball|Northwest Missouri State]] (1929–1932)
| career_start    = 
| career_end      = 
| years1          = 
| team1           = 
| highlights      = 
*6× [[AAU Men's Basketball All-Americans|AAU All-American]] (1932, 1937–1939, 1942, 1945)
*3× First-team All-[[Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association|MIAA]] (1930–1932)
| HOF_player      = jack-mccracken
| CBBASKHOF_year = 2006
}}

'''Jack D. "Jumping Jack" McCracken''' (June 15, 1912 – January 5, 1958) was an American [[basketball]] player in the 1930s and 1940s.

A native of [[Chickasha, Oklahoma]], McCracken went to [[Classen High School]] in [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]]. He attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College (now [[Northwest Missouri State University]]) in [[Maryville, Missouri]] and played for coach [[Henry Iba]], who had also coached him in [[high school]]. McCracken never turned professional.

After leaving Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, he went to [[Denver, Colorado]], to play in the AAU.

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211235/http://hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-jack-mccracken.html Jack "Jumping Jack" McCracken biography] on hoophall.com
*{{Find a Grave|20708023}}

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[[Category:Sportspeople from Chickasha, Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Phillips 66ers players]]
[[Category:Basketball players from Oklahoma City]]
[[Category:American men's basketball players]]
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[[Category:Classen School of Advanced Studies alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportsmen]]


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