Jack King (15 January 1879 – 25 June 1965) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who was recruited from the

Rutherglen Football Club The Rutherglen Football and Netball Club is an Australian rules football and netball club playing their home games in Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia. The current Rutherglen FNC was created after the merger of Ovens & Murray Football League sid ...

and played with St Kilda in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL). King played an incredible 26 years of senior football in the

Ovens and Murray Football League The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wales, Austral ...

, playing in 11 premierships with Rutherglen and was inducted into the O&MFL – Hall of Fame in 2008. King would later become a

Stawell Gift The Stawell Gift is Australia's oldest and richest short-distance running race. It is the main event in an annual carnival held on Easter weekend by the Stawell Athletic Club, with the main race finals on the holiday Monday, at Central Park, St ...

winning athletic coach in 1908 (His younger brother, Chris King), 1952 (

Lance Mann Lance Gibson Mann (12 July 1930 – 13 March 2015) was a professional footrunner and a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Footballer A talented wingman, Mann started his football career in Walwa, bef ...

) and 1954 (John Hayes). King would later convince dual Stawell Gift winner (1966 & 67) Bill Howard to take up professional running in 1964. King was inducted into the Stawell Gift – Hall of Fame. King was the older brother of former South Melbourne and St. Kilda player, Jim King.

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* * 1879 births 1965 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players Rutherglen Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1870s-stub