{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Russell Jessop | image = | fullname = Russell Jessop | birth_date = {{birth date|1957|9|25|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|5|16|1957|9|25|df=y}} | death_place = | originalteam = Thornbury<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> | height = 180 cm | weight = 79 kg | position = | statsend = 1977 | years1 = 1976–1977 | club1 = Collingwood | games_goals1 = 5 (0) | careerhighlights = }}
'''Russell Jessop''' (25 September 1957 – 16 May 2018) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Jessop got his first chance to play for Collingwood when the club made five changes to their team to take on Footscray in round 20 of the 1976 VFL season, having fallen to the bottom of the ladders after their loss to Fitzroy.<ref>''The Age'',[https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=mv4QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RpIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2798,2818323 "Kick goals - or out!"], 13 August 1976, p. 13</ref> Used as a wingman or flanker, he appeared in the remaining two fixtures that year and another two in 1977.<ref name=AFLTables>[http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/R/Russell_Jessop.html AFL Tables: Russell Jessop]</ref>
He later had success at Lalor as a forward and topped the Diamond Valley Football League goal-kicking in 1984 with 103 goals. Jessop died in May 2018.
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