Graeme "Jerker" Jenkin (born 5 September 1945) is a former
Australian rules footballer who played with
Collingwood Collingwood, meaning "wood of disputed ownership", may refer to:
Educational institutions
* Collingwood College, Victoria, an Australian state Prep to Year 12 school
* Collingwood College, Durham, college of Durham University, England
* Collingw ...
and
Essendon Essendon may refer to:
Australia
*Electoral district of Essendon
*Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington
*Essendon, Victoria
**Essendon railway station
**Essendon Airport
*Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League
United King ...
in the
VFL
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during the 1960s and 1970s.
Jenkin is best remembered for being the player that Carlton's
Alex Jesaulenko
Oleksandr "Alex" Jesaulenko ( ; uk, Олександр Васильович Єсауленко, Oleksandr Vasiliovych Yesaulenko, ; born 2 August 1945) is a former Australian rules footballer and who played for the Carlton Football Club and ...
took a
spectacular mark
A spectacular mark (also known as a specky, speckie, speccy, screamer or hanger) is a mark (or catch) in Australian rules football that typically involves a player jumping up on the back of another player.
The spectacular mark has become a muc ...
over in the
1970 Grand Final, prompting the famous call of "
Oh, Jesaulenko, you beauty!" by commentator
Mike Williamson.
A ruckman, Jenkin first appeared for Collingwood in the
1963 season and, after managing just three games that year, missed all of
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndo ...
with a broken leg. He returned in 1966 but couldn't break into their finals side, and, with first-choice ruckman
Ray Gabelich
Raymond Thomas Gabelich (3 July 1933 – 18 July 2000) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family
The son of John (1902–1988) and Elizabeth Nina "Bessie" Gabelich, n� ...
retiring that year, he looked like getting more regular game time. However, the emergence of
Len Thompson
Len Thompson (27 August 1947 – 18 September 2007) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club, South Melbourne Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Collingwood ...
again relegated him to secondary ruckman, but he played full seasons in
1970
Events
January
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* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 1 ...
and
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
.
In
1974
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, he was traded to Essendon in a swap for
John Williams
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but struggled in his time there with injury. In July 1976, he transferred to
Brunswick in the
Victorian Football Association
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.
He is the subject of a song by the Melbourne group
TISM
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titled "The Back Upon Which Jezza Jumped", included on the album ''
Gentlemen, Start Your Egos''.
References
*Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
External links
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1945 births
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Brunswick Football Club players
Collingwood Football Club players
Essendon Football Club players
Living people