Jack Eames was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with Richmond

Richmond Football Club

The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

 in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL).

Eames was one of many present and future VFL footballers who served in World War II

World War II

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. He enlisted in the Australian Army

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 in 1942 and served until he was discharged in 1946.

A follower, he made himself available to VFL clubs prior to the 1946 season when he decided to move from his home in Albury, to Melbourne, for work purposes. Four clubs tried to get his signature and it was with Richmond who were successful. He however would spent only one season at Richmond, playing 14 games.

He accepted an offer to captain-coach Wodonga

Wodonga Football Club

The Wodonga Football Club are an Australian rules football club which compete in the Ovens & Murray Football League.The club is based in Wodonga, Victoria.Wodonga made four consecutive grand finals from 1967 to 1970, winning two premierships....

 in 1947 and returned home to the Ovens & Murray Football League

Ovens & Murray Football League

The Ovens and Murray Football League, often referred to locally as the O&M, is a semi-professional Australian rules football league based around ten clubs in north-eastern Victoria and the southern Riverina region of New South Wales, and affiliated with the Victorian Country Football League...

. His performances in the 1949 season won him a Morris Medal.