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Key Facts

Full name
James Knight

Known as
Jim Knight

Born
3 January 1918

Died
11 October 1943 (aged 25)

Age at first & last AFL game
First game: 21y 116d
Last game: 25y 153d

Height and weight
Height: 173 cm
Weight: 73 kg

Senior clubs
Geelong; Carlton

Jumper numbers
Geelong: 22
Carlton: 11

Recruited from
Geelong (1942)

Jim Knight

Advanced stats
Club
League
Career span
Games
Goals
Avg
Win %
AKI
AHB
AMK
BV
GeelongV/AFL1939-194142541.2943%———10
CarltonV/AFL1942-19431570.4760%———0
V/AFL1939-194357611.0747%———10
Total1939-194357611.0747%———10

AFL: 4,690th player to appear, 4,015th most games played, 1,777th most goals kickedGeelong: 429th player to appear, 382nd most games played, 156th most goals kickedCarlton: 568th player to appear, 650th most games played, 506th most goals kicked

Geelong’s Jim Knight was a diminutive but highly aggressive rover who bored in hard for the ball and typically used it well. He was known within the club for being a particularly hard trainer, and was extremely fit as a consequence, capable if required of remaining on the ball all match. From 1939 to 1941 he played 42 VFL games for the Cats and scored 54 goals. When Geelong went into recess owing to the war in 1942 Knight, who was undergoing military training at the time, was allowed to transfer to Carlton, where he added 15 games and seven goals over the course of that season and the next. In October 1943 he was killed while on active military service in New Guinea.

Author - John Devaney

Sources

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Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.