Melville Leroy James (28 January 1900 – 20 October 1975) was an
Australian rules footballer who played with
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a me ...
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). I ...
(VFL).
Originally from
Golden Point in the
Ballarat Football League
The Ballarat Football League (BFL) is an Australian rules football competition that operates in the Ballarat region of Victoria, Australia.
The competition formed in 1893 as the Ballarat Football Association and was renamed Ballarat Football ...
, it was expected that
South Melbourne
South Melbourne is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 3 km south of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip Local government ...
would recruit James, but in what was described as a "triumph" by the ''
Football Record'', the Melbourne secretary,
Andrew Manzie
Andrew Arthur Albert Manzie (30 November 1863 – 9 September 1943) was the secretary of the Melbourne Football Club for 20 years, from 1912 to 1931. Before being secretary of Melbourne, Manzie held the same role at Richmond Football Club for fi ...
, signed him instead. He was cleared to
Essendon in 1926,
but never played a senior match for the Bombers.
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1900 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Melbourne Football Club players
Golden Point Football Club players
1975 deaths
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