{{short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Jack Eames | image = Jack Eames.jpg | caption = Eames in 2009 | image_size = 200px | fullname = Jack Eames | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|12|22|df=y}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Holmesby|first1=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim|title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers| publisher=BAS Publishing|year=2007|isbn=978-1-920910-78-5}}</ref> | birth_place = Albury, New South Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|1|16|1922|12|22|df=yes}} | death_place = | height = 183 cm | weight = 83 kg | position = | statsend = 1946 | years1 = 1946 | club1 = Richmond | games_goals1 = 14 (1) | careerhighlights = }}
'''Jack Eames''' (22 December 1922 – 16 January 2017)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tigerlandarchive.org/tiki-index.php?page=Jack+Eames|title=Richmond Football Club history (1885 – Now)}}</ref> was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Eames was one of many present and future VFL footballers who served in World War II. He enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942 and served until he was discharged in 1946.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=510900|title=WW2 Nominal Roll|publisher=Australian Government|access-date=8 November 2015|archive-date=26 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426064402/http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=A&veteranId=510900|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.<ref>''The Argus'',[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22234902 "Albury Player for Richmond"], 18 March 1946, p. 12</ref> Four clubs tried to get his signature and it was with Richmond who were successful. However, he would spend only one season at Richmond, playing 14 games.<ref name=AFLTables>[http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/J/Jack_Eames.html AFL Tables: Jack Eames]</ref> He accepted an offer to captain-coach Wodonga in 1947 and returned home to the Ovens & Murray Football League.<ref>''The Argus'',[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22906758 "Carnival player"], 15 July 1950, p. 16</ref> His performances in the 1949 season won him a Morris Medal.
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