William Eason (2 February 1882 – 6 December 1957) 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 Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for

Geelong Football Club The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Kardinia Park in South Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier comp ...

. He was the brother of Geelong great

Alec Eason Alexander Eason (8 November 1889 – 5 May 1956) was an Australian rules football player, coach and administrator in the Victorian Football League and Victorian Football Association. Family The seventh of the eight children of Richard Alexan ...

. Eason migrated from Liverpool in England to Geelong in 1883 with his family aboard the steam ship Duke of Buckingham.Geelong Cats: Remembering the famous Eason brothers
by Danny Lannen for the Geelong Advertiser 1 November 2015 A centreman, Eason will forever hold a place in the Geelong record books as being their first footballer to play 200 VFL games. Bill was also an outstanding cricketer in the Geelong Cricket Association taking 547 wickets at 10.7 from 1902 to 1931. He is buried at the East Geelong Cemetery in a family plot that is marked with his younger brother's headstone who died of injuries sustained in a football match at the Corio Oval aged in his early twenties.

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1882 births 1957 deaths English emigrants to colonial Australia VFL/AFL players born in England Australian rules footballers from Geelong Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents Geelong Football Club players Geelong Football Club coaches {{AFL-bio-1882-stub