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Jim was once blamed for flattening the champion footballer Hadyn Bunton, but he insisted that he was nowhere near him. On another occasion, he was said to have dealt with
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Jim played for the Old
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reported that Jim, “the St Kilda footballer” had been transferred by his employer, the
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In 2009 Geelong produced a special heritage edition of its football jumper to celebrate its 150th anniversary. It used that edition of the jumper in a number of AFL games that year. The traditional blue hoops were replaced by lists of past players for the club, printed in blue, and Jim’s name is
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Jim told me that his best asset as a footballer was that he was awkward to get around. He shared one memory of a top
Collingwood footballer approaching him at speed around the half back flank. Jim sensed that the other player was going to handball over his head, swerve past and re-gather, so he
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