Jamie Tape (15 April 1974 – 3 January 2003) 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 played for the

Richmond Football Club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victo ...

and

Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club w ...

in the

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(AFL). He also played for the

Woodville-West Torrens Football Club Woodville-West Torrens Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). It was formed in 1990 from an amalgamation of the neighbouring Woodville and West Torrens football clu ...

in the

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(SANFL). Jamie grew up in the small South Australian town of

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on the Yorke Peninsula in

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. He attended Yorketown Area school in the neighbouring town of Yorketown and played his junior football for the Edithburgh Football Club.

Football career

Jamie was a talented junior and was rewarded for his efforts by winning the Mail Medal for league best and fairest on the Yorke Peninsula. He was invited to play for the WWTFC in the SANFL and after making his league debut in 1992, he played a total of 75 games. He was a part of the 1993

SANFL The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport. Originally formed as the ...

premiership team and was named in the best players for the day. Tape moved to

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club

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, ...

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after initially being selected with pick #28 in the

1992 AFL Draft The 1992 AFL draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League. It consisted of the main national draft, the pre-season draft and ...

. Tape enjoyed a highly-promising first three seasons with the Tigers, wearing number five and playing in 67 out of a possible 69 games and rewarded with an AFL Rising Star nomination in 1994. He shared Richmond's best first year player award with fellow South Australian rookie

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, as well as State of Origin representation. However, Tape began struggling with injury in following years, so much so that he managed just eight more games for Richmond before being traded to Collingwood with teammate

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in exchange for the Magpies' Aaron James and pick #71 in the 1997 AFL Draft. Tape's AFL career ended in

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after he could only manage to play a total of 16 games with Collingwood in his two years spent there. He played his last AFL game at just 25 years old. Following his delisting, he moved back to South Australia and played two more seasons with his original SANFL club Woodville-West Torrens and added another 19 games to his league tally.

Death and legacy

After having only just overcome a 10-month battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, Tape died soon after a suspected

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while at the wheel of his car having gone shopping for supplies for a barbecue, not far from his home on the evening of 3 January 2003. On 9 January, his family and friends gathered in Yorketown, South Australia, to pay their tributes. His legacy is honoured at the Woodville-West Torrens Football Club, with the club awarding the 'Jamie Tape Medal' for "sacrificial acts" at each year's club awards night.

Playing statistics

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, style="text-align:center;", Collingwood , 13 , , 9 , , 0 , , 1 , , 61 , , 28 , , 89 , , 31 , , 7 , , 0 , , 0.1 , , 6.8 , , 3.1 , , 9.9 , , 3.4 , , 0.8 , - style="background:#eaeaea;" , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 91 ! 5 ! 7 ! 742 ! 415 ! 1157 ! 319 ! 136 ! 0.05 ! 0.08 ! 8.15 ! 4.56 ! 12.71 ! 3.51 ! 1.49

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tape, Jamie Woodville-West Torrens Football Club players Richmond Football Club players Collingwood Football Club players South Australian State of Origin players Australian rules footballers from South Australia 1974 births 2003 deaths Road incident deaths in South Australia