Jim Jess

Jim Jess
Jim Jess
Personal information
Nickname	The Ghost
Born	25 January 1955 (age 71)
Original teams	Avoca, St Arnaud, Maryborough
Height	189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club
1976–1988	Richmond
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1988.
Career highlights
	Richmond Premiership Player 1980; Interstate Games:- 3; All Australian: 1980; Richmond - Hall of Fame - inducted 2008;
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Jim Jess (born 25 January 1955) is a retired Australian rules football player who was recruited from St. Arnaud after he won the 1975 North Central Football League best and fairest award, the Feeney Medal with 31 votes.

Jess played in the VFL between 1976 and 1988 for the Richmond Football Club and played in Richmond's 1980 VFL grand final win.

Jess also played in Richmond's losing 1982 VFL Grand Final side.

Jess was commonly referred to as 'The Ghost'.^[2]

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Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996

External links

Jim Jess's playing statistics from AFL Tables
Jim Jess at AustralianFootball.com
Jim Jess profile via Tigerland Archieve
Jim Jess player profile via Avoca FNC

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v t e Richmond Football Club 1980 VFL premiers
Richmond 23.21 (159) defeated Collingwood 9.24 (78), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1. Lee 2. Wiley 3. Weightman 4. Raines 5. Dunne 6. Mount 7. Malthouse 8. Roach 11. Monteath (c) 16. Wood 18. Keane 19. Strachan 20. Jess 22. Rowlings 29. Bartlett 30. Bourke 31. Welsh 33. Cloke 44. Freame 46. Smith
Coach: Jewell

v t e 1980 All-Australian team
Coach Tom Hafey (Collingwood)
South Australia Peter Carey (Glenelg) Graham Cornes (Glenelg) Rick Davies (Sturt) (Captain) Robbert Klomp (Carlton) Keith Kuhlmann (Glenelg) Greg Phillips (Port Adelaide) John Roberts (South Melbourne) Mark Williams (Port Adelaide)
Tasmania Ron Stubbs (Devonport) Darryl Sutton (North Melbourne)
Victoria Robert Flower (Melbourne) Jim Jess (Richmond) Mark Lee (Richmond) Ian Nankervis (Geelong) Geoff Raines (Richmond) Geoff Southby (Carlton) Garry Wilson (Fitzroy)
Western Australia Bruce Duperouzel (St Kilda) Ken Hunter (Claremont) Brian Peake (East Fremantle)

v t e Victorian team – 1984 State of Origin
Victoria 16.12 (108) defeated South Australia 16.8 (104), at Football Park, 15 May 1984 Western Australia 21.16 (142) defeated Victoria 21.12 (138), at Subiaco Oval, 17 July 1984
Both games	Ackerly Buckley Cunningham Evans Hawkins Healy Johnston Madden Mew Moore Pert Tuck
vs. South Australia	Bos Carroll Daicos Doull Greig Jess Kennedy Lee McCann Salmon Watson Wilson
vs. Western Australia	Ablett Ayres Daniher DiPierdomenico Greene Icke Merrett Shaw Turner Williams
Coach: Jeans

Jim Jess

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