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{{Short description|Australian rules footballer (1913–2003)}}
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{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Jack Dyer
| image = JackDyer.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = 
| fullname = John Raymond Dyer Sr.
| nickname = Captain Blood
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|11|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Oakleigh, Victoria]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|8|23|1913|11|15|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Box Hill, Victoria]]
| originalteam = St. Ignatius
| height = 185&nbsp;cm
| weight = 89&nbsp;kg
| position = Ruck/ruck-rover/forward
| statsend = 1949
| coachstatsend = 1952
| years1 = 1931–1949
| club1 = {{AFL Ric}}
| games_goals1 = 311 (443)
| sooteam1 = [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]]
| sooyears1 = 
| soogames_goals1 = 16
| coachyears1 = 1941–1952
| coachclub1 = {{AFL Ric}}
| coachgames_wins1 = 222 (134–86–2)
| careerhighlights = '''VFL'''
* 2x [[Australian Football League|VFL]] Premiership: ([[1934 VFL Grand Final|1934]], [[1943 VFL Grand Final|1943]])
* 5x [[Jack Dyer Medal|Richmond Best & Fairest]]: (1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946)
* 2x [[List of Michael Roach Medal recipients|Richmond leading goalkicker]]: (1947, 1948)
* [[List of Richmond Football Club captains|Richmond Captain]]: (1941–1949)
* [[Australian Football League#Team of the Century|AFL Team of the Century]]
* [[Australian Football Hall of Fame]] – [[Australian Football Hall of Fame#Legends|Legend Status]], (Inaugural Legend)
* [[Richmond Football Club#Richmond Team of the Century|Richmond Team of the Century]]
* [[Richmond Football Club#Richmond Hall of Fame|Richmond Hall of Fame]] – Immortal Status, (Inaugural)
* [[Richmond Football Club#"100 Tiger Treasures"|Tiger Treasure]] (The Strong & the Bold)

'''Representative'''
* [[Interstate matches in Australian rules football#Australian National Football Carnival|National Football Carnival]]: Championship: [[1937 Perth Carnival|1937]]  
* [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] Captain: 1941, 1949

'''Coaching'''
* [[Australian Football League|VFL]] Premiership: [[1943 VFL Grand Final|1943]]
}}
[[Image:Jack Dyer VFL 1938.jpeg|upright|thumb|[[Jim Park (footballer, born 1910)|Jim Park]] of Carlton, Dyer (age 24), and [[Phonse Kyne]] of Collingwood, at the Adelaide Oval, before the 1938 interstate match against South Australia]]
'''John Raymond Dyer Sr.''' [[Order of Australia Medal|OAM]] (15 November 1913<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/12/1068329630269.html|title=Date aside, Tigers get Jack's number|first=Geoff |last=McClure|date=13 November 2003|work=[[The Age]]}}</ref> – 23 August 2003), nicknamed '''Captain Blood''', was an [[Australian rules football]]er who played for the [[Richmond Football Club]] in the [[Victorian Football League (1897–1989)|Victorian Football League]] (VFL) between 1931 and 1949. One of the game's most prominent players, he was one of 12 inaugural "Legends" inducted into the [[Australian Football Hall of Fame]]. He later turned to coaching and work in the media as a popular broadcaster and journalist.

== Early life ==
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Dyer was born in [[Oakleigh, Victoria|Oakleigh]], now a south-eastern suburb of [[Melbourne]], but grew up in the small farming hamlet of [[Yarra Junction, Victoria|Yarra Junction]] on the [[Yarra River]], approximately {{convert|60|km|mi}} east of the city. His parents, Ben and Nellie, were of [[Ireland|Irish]] descent. The second of three children, Dyer had an elder brother, Vin, and a younger sister, Eileen. Dyer first played football at the Yarra Junction primary school. For his secondary education, Dyer was sent by his parents to St Ignatius in [[Richmond, Victoria|Richmond]]. He boarded in the city with an aunt. One of the brothers running the school offered Dyer a sporting scholarship to [[De La Salle College, Malvern]]. After leaving school with several sporting trophies, Dyer played with St Ignatius on Saturdays and with Richmond Hill Old Boys in a mid-week competition. Dyer's desire was to play for Richmond in the VFL as he admired one of the Tigers' players, [[George Rudolph]].

== Sporting career ==
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In 1930, Dyer won the Metropolitan League's award for the best player at the age of 16. Richmond officials had not yet attempted to sign him, and Dyer applied for a clearance to play with the Tigers' main rival, Collingwood. The Richmond officials wanted to see him in action before any decision was made and Dyer was in training with Richmond for the start of the 1931 season. Richmond's coach [[Frank 'Checker' Hughes|'Checker' Hughes]] pitting Dyer against veteran [[Joe Murdoch]] in a practice session. Dyer hardly touched the ball and was disheartened about his prospects until Hughes consoled him by explaining the pairing with Murdoch was a trial of courage, not skill.

Hughes selected him for his debut in just the second game of the season, against [[North Melbourne Football Club|North Melbourne]]. Dyer was made a reserve while the team achieved a VFL record score of 30.19 (199) in one of the biggest wins in VFL/AFL history. Hughes left Dyer on the bench. It was the height of the [[Great Depression]] and the going rate for the players was 3 pounds per match, but Richmond only paid half that for unused reserves, so Hughes saved the club thirty shillings on the day. Dyer got another couple of chances and showed some form, but by mid-season found himself in the seconds team, with players who were not quite league standard, but wanted to stay on at the club and earn an extra few shillings per week to support their families.

At one point, Dyer walked away from Richmond for a few weeks and returned to suburban football. Club secretary [[Percy Page (administrator)|Percy Page]] persuaded him back by promising to clear any recalcitrant players. In the run up to the finals, with Richmond sitting second on the ladder, ruckman [[Percy Bentley]] went down with an injury that ended his season. Hughes included Dyer in the Tigers' team for the second semi final against [[Geelong Football Club|Geelong]]. Playing mainly up forward, the unknown Dyer played a successful game, kicking three goals. In the Grand Final a fortnight later, again against Geelong, Geelong used their player and coach [[Arthur Coghlan|"Bull" Coghlan]] playing on Dyer. Coghlan played roughly against Dyer; Dyer had only four touches for the day and admitted many years later to being intimidated.

In 1932, partnering Bentley in the ruck, Dyer played successfully in the first half of the season before suffering a serious knee injury that put him out for the rest of the year. In ten matches, Dyer received 12 Brownlow medal votes<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/243033690 V.C. OF LEAGUE FOOTBALL BEST AND FAIREST PLAYER, ''The Herald'', (Thursday, 8 September 1932), p.20],<br>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4496918 FOOTBALL CHAMPION. BROWNLOW MEDAL. H. BUNTON WINS AGAIN, ''The Argus'', (Thursday, 8 September 1932), p.7]</ref> for four best afield performances. He was chosen for Victoria after fewer than a dozen league matches. On Grand Final day, Dyer was back in reserve as his teammates won Richmond's third premiership after several finals failures.

Dyer did reappear in 1933, wearing a dirty knee bandage. In his own phrase, Dyer was unable to "turn off" or "pull up" and he sometimes collected a teammate if his timing was out. In the Grand Final against [[Sydney Swans|South Melbourne]], Richmond lost by eight goals, but Dyer achieved thirty touches. In the following year's Grand Final, the Tigers won in a rematch with the Swans. Richmond's successfully used a ruck combination of Bentley, Dyer and rover Ray Martin.

== Captain Blood ==
[[File:Jack Dyer and Tom Meehan 1949.jpg|thumb|upright|An oft-reproduced 1949 photograph of Dyer appearing to "decapitate" St Kilda's [[Tom Meehan (footballer, born 1926)|Tom Meehan]]]]
The number of on-field incidents grew and after a particularly difficult game during 1935, newspaper cartoonist [[John Ludlow (cartoonist)|John Ludlow]] in ''[[The Age]]'' drew a picture of Dyer as a pirate and a journalist nicknamed him 'Captain Blood', after the [[Errol Flynn]] film ''[[Captain Blood (1935 film)|Captain Blood]]''. Initially, Dyer was angry at the connotation and the implied slur on his sportsmanship. Dyer preferred the 'hip and shoulder' method of meeting an opponent rather than grabbing him in a tackle. The force of being hit by the athletic, 89&nbsp;kg frame of Dyer was often enough to leave a player prostrate and not wanting to re-enter the fray for a while. Occasionally, the hip and shoulder could go awry and Dyer's forearm would come into play, which was a reportable offence. In a nineteen-year career, he was reported five times and suspended once.

Dyer was keen to take on a coaching role, and had reportedly been promised the position of playing coach by the Richmond committee at the end of 1939 before it reneged and re-appointed [[Percy Bentley]]. As a consequence, Dyer announced that he would not play for Richmond in 1940.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=News|publication-place=Adelaide, SA|page=5|title=Will not play with his club|date=23 February 1940}}</ref> He received a lucrative offer to become captain-coach of the [[Yarraville Football Club]] in the [[Victorian Football Association]] (which, at the time, was aggressively recruiting VFL stars to play under its new [[throw-pass era|throw-pass rules]]), and he lodged a request with Richmond for a clearance to the VFA club.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=J. Dyer signs form|page=17|date=26 February 1940}}</ref> Richmond rejected the clearance, and Dyer was unwilling to transfer without a clearance (even though one was not required at the time).<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Richmond to hold Dyer|page=15|date=8 March 1940}}</ref> Dyer ultimately decided to remain with Richmond as a player in 1940, and he was appointed captain-coach in 1941.

He went on to play 312 games for Richmond, being voted the club's best and fairest player in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, and 1946. He played in seven [[AFL Grand Final|Grand Finals]] for two premierships in [[1934 VFL Grand Final|1934]] and [[1943 VFL Grand Final|1943]], one as captain and playing coach of the side.

<!-- Image with inadequate rationale removed: [[Image:Captain Blood.jpeg|thumb|left|200px|[[Errol Flynn]] as the swashbuckling Captain Blood]] -->
Dyer was a [[Ruckman (Australian rules football position)|ruckman]]; and, at {{convert|6|ft|1|in|cm|abbr=on}}, was not particularly tall for that position. Possessed of great strength, he was adept at punching the ball out of a pack contesting a mark, often sending the ball more than 40 yards.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12140277 "Did you see—?", ''The Argus'', (Monday, 19 June 1939), p.14.]</ref>

In 1947, Dyer crashed into Melbourne's [[Frank Hanna (footballer, born 1924)|Frank Hanna]] in round 15. The umpire cleared him for rough conduct, though Hanna was knocked unconscious. [[Don Cordner]] checked his pulse and Hanna was covered with a blanket, including his head, and was carried off on a stretcher. Dyer thought he had killed Hanna. By three-quarter time, he still believed he had killed him until he asked a Demon player about Hanna's condition, and Hanna had recovered.

He was selected as an interchange player in the AFL's 1996 [[Australian Football League#Team of the Century|Team of the Century]]". He gradually played less as a ruckman and more as a forward later in his career. He invented the [[drop punt]], a kicking style that gradually gained popularity over the intervening decades and is now almost universal, and has now spread to [[Rugby union]], [[rugby league]] and [[American football]]. He kicked 443 goals, fifth on Richmond's list of all-time goalkickers.

In 2009, ''[[The Australian]]'' nominated Dyer as one of the 25 greatest footballers never to win a [[Brownlow medal]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090927012026/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/gallery/0,26637,5060661-601-11,00.html The Australian], 22 September 2009, retrieved 2009-09-22</ref>

The "[[Jack Dyer Medal]]" is awarded each season to the winner of the [[Richmond Football Club]]'s [[best and fairest]] count. Since the 2000s, the Richmond captain has automatically switched to wearing guernsey number 17, the number worn by Dyer throughout his career. But when Trent Cotchin took over the captaincy of the Tigers in 2013, he continued wearing his number 9.

== Rescindment of Dyer's 1932 best and fairest award ==
Following a 19-year investigation undertaken by members of the Historical Committee, no evidence was found to have any winner of a "Best and Fairest Award" for Richmond in 18 of the seasons between [[1911 VFL season|1911]] and [[1936 VFL season|1936]]. It is thought that the awards in question were retrospectively added in 1988 and 1991 in error. As a consequence, he now shares his Richmond best and fairest tally record of 5 with fellow AFL Legend [[Kevin Bartlett (Australian rules footballer)|Kevin Bartlett]].

== Personal life ==
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| image1 = [http://theaustraliancartoonmuseum.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/007-GURNEY-JACK-DYER.jpg Caricature of Jack Dyer by Alex Gurney].<br>Source: The Australian Cartoon Museum.
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He married Sybil Margaret McCasker, the cousin of [[Keith Truscott|Keith "Bluey" Truscott]],<ref>Hardy (2012), pp.96-97; 141-149.</ref> on 25 November 1939 at [[St Ignatius' Church, Richmond]].<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11277173 Footballer Married, ''The Argus'', (Monday, 27 November 1939), p.7]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205596182 J. Dyer Wedding: Church Packed to Capacity, ''The Age'', (Monday, 27 November 1939), p.10.]</ref>

After an assortment of jobs in his early adulthood, Dyer joined the police force in July 1935. Dyer served in the police for nine years, before he resigned to conduct a [[milk bar]], ''The Tiger Milk Bar and Newsagency'' at 394 Church Street, Richmond.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245665539 Millard, P.J., "Jack Dyer's Venture", ''The Herald'', (Saturday, 10 November 1945), p.12]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245656616 Jack Dyer Off His Beat, ''The Herald'', (Saturday, 17 November 1945), p.5.]</ref> In 1949 he became the publican at the ''Foresters' Arms Hotel'' in Port Melbourne,<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/162545494 "Captain Blood" Comes to Port Melbourne: Licensee of Foresters' Arms Hotel, ''The (Emerald Hill) Record'', (Saturday, 15 October 1949), p.5.]</ref> and in 1952, the publican at the ''Post Office Hotel'' in Prahran.<ref>[[Alf Brown|Brown, Alf]], [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244373797 Prahran hotel for Dyer, ''The Herald'', (Thursday, 14 August 1952), p.1]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206214081 Prahran Hotel to Jack Dyer, ''The Age'', (Wednesday, 27 August 1952), p.19]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23192246 "Captain Blood" moves into "enemy" territory, ''The Argus'', (Wednesday, 27 August 1952), p.5]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206214216 Mine Host, Jack Dyer, ''The Age'', (Wednesday, 27 August 1952), p.7.]</ref>

On 8 March 1940, Richmond announced that they had refused the recently married Dyer a clearance to coach VFA club [[Yarraville Football Club|Yarraville]]; and Dyer stated that he would not cross to Yarraville without a clearance.<ref>Ross, (1996), p.162.</ref>

He and his wife Sybil had two children, [[Jack Dyer, Jr.|Jack Jr]] (Jackie, born 15 December 1940) and Jill (married name Devine). Jackie had a brief career at Punt Road from 1959 to 1961, playing three games, but retired from all football aged just 23.

Following Sybil's sudden death in 1968,<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YQhiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c-MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3451%2C4023440 Deaths: Dyer, ''The Age'', (Thursday 21 May 1968), p.21.]</ref> Dyer met Dorothy Eskell, with whom he spent 25 years. Dorothy supported him in his media career, and they lived together in [[Frankston, Victoria|Frankston]]. In his final years, Dyer lived in a nursing home.

== Media career ==
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After retiring from coaching, Dyer turned to the media, where he became a commentator and football media personality. He contributed to two sports/comedy offerings on Melbourne television: ''[[World of Sport (Australian television show)|World of Sport]]'', a Sunday morning panel show; and, later, ''[[League Teams]]'', a Thursday-night variant which later inspired ''[[The AFL Footy Show|AFL Footy Show]]''. He also had a regular column which went under the name "Dyer 'ere" (a pun on [[Diarrhea|diarrhoea]]) in Melbourne's ''[[The Truth (Melbourne newspaper)|Truth]]'' newspaper.

His media work began after resigning from the coaching position at Richmond. Dyer, along with former [[Collingwood Football Club|Collingwood]] captain [[Lou Richards]], became an early television commentator on Australian football after the medium was introduced to Australia in 1956.

Dyer also was a radio broadcaster – for many years, he and [[Ian Major]] called football matches for radio station [[3KZ]] (KZ-FM after the station converted to FM in 1990) as ''The Captain and The Major''.

=== "Dyerisms" ===
According to various historical articles, videos, quotes on the official Richmond website, and press obituaries, Dyer was responsible for many [[malapropism]]s, [[wit]]ticisms, and comical [[Error|gaffes]], including:
*"Yes, we had an enjoyable time on the [[French Riviera|French Riverina]]" (the [[Riverina]] is a highly productive agricultural [[List of regions in Australia|region]] of south-western [[New South Wales]]), and he described the problems with younger players by saying that "All they want to do is sit around and smoke [[Marinara sauce|marinara]]".
Other memorable quotes include:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.puntroadend.com/JDtrivia.htm |title=Punt Road End |access-date=2 October 2006 |archive-date=19 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819021216/http://www.puntroadend.com/JDtrivia.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Classic Dyerisms |url=https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/690589/classic-dyerisms |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=richmondfc.com.au |date=13 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*"I won't say anything in case I say something."
*"[[Kevin Bartlett (Aussie Rules footballer)|Bartlett's]] older than he's ever been before."
*"Johnston missed one from the 10-yard square – it was impossible to miss that."
*"The only way to tackle [[Justin Madden]] is... I don't know."
*"That's the beauty of being small – your hands are close to your feet."
*"[[Les Bamblett|Bamblett]] made a great debut last week, and an even better one today."
*"The ball goes to Marceesie ... Marcheson ... McKann, er ..." before co-commentator [[Ian Major]] interjected: "Actually, Jack, I don't think [[Frank Marchesani|Marchesani]] was in that passage of play."
*"[[Mark Lee (Australian rules footballer)|Mark Lee]]'s long arms reaching up like giant testicles."
*"It's as dark out there as the Black Hole of Dakota."
*"The goal posts are moving so fast I can't keep up with the play."
*And on ''World of Sport'', Dyer declared that [[Fitzroy Football Club|Fitzroy]] had "[[Sexual intercourse|copulated]] to the opposition"
*“He keeps getting where the ball ain't.”
*“[[Ross Henshaw|Henshaw]] passes the ball to [[Phil Kelly (Australian footballer)|Kelly]], and Kelly gives a Henshaw to [[Glendinning]].”
*“There weren’t too many best mans on the ground.”
*If you don't mind, umpire, please!
*“He’s tuckled strongly by [[Michael Tuck|Tack]].”
*During his coaching career at Richmond, Jack once instructed his players in a training session to “pair off in threes”.
*He once said that he hated Collingwood so much, he couldn't even watch black-and-white TV.

== Retirement ==
Retiring from the media in the early 1990s, when KZ-FM stopped broadcasting football, Dyer successfully led opposition to an AFL proposed merger of his old club with St Kilda in 1989.<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/23/1061529383441.html Austin, D., "Farewell to the legendary Captain Blood", ''The Age: Real Footy'', (Sunday, 24 August 2003).]</ref>

==Photograph from 1944 Essendon match==
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A photograph was taken of Richmond captain-coach Dyer, aged 30 and playing his 222nd game, wearing white strapping on his left thumb and a dirty knee bandage on his left knee, breaking away from the pack, with his eyes fixed on the [[Albert Park and Lake|lake]]-end goals (Dyer went on to kick a goal) in the last quarter of the 1944 Preliminary Final, held at the [[Junction Oval]] on Saturday 23 September 1944, in which Richmond defeated [[Essendon Football Club|Essendon]], primarily due to Dyer's nine goals.

Led by a four-goal burst by Dyer, who was playing at full-forward,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-gpiAAAAIBAJ&pg=7188%2C3573823|title=Football: Richmond for Grand Final|work=The Age|date=25 September 1944|page=4|quote="Dyer's switch to full forward was a master stroke, his effectiveness in that position practically won the game for Richmond in the first quarter"}}</ref> Richmond scored 8.2 (50) to 0.5 (5) in the first quarter (kicking against the wind); and, although Essendon outscored Richmond in the last three quarters, Richmond won the match 16.12 (108) to 12.15 (87).<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11362570 Taylor, P., "Richmond Wins, To Meet Fitzroy", ''The Argus'', Monday, 25 September, 1944), p.9.]</ref>

Dyer's performance that day was one of the best individual performances by a Richmond player in the club's history.<ref>{{cite web|archive-date=17 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717042923/http://www.richmondfc.com.au/best%20individual%20performances%20of%20the%20century/tabid/11582/default.aspx|title=Best Individual Performances of the Century|url=http://www.richmondfc.com.au/best%20individual%20performances%20of%20the%20century/tabid/11582/default.aspx}}</ref> A match reporter for ''[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]]'', in an article titled "Dyer's Grand First Quarter", wrote:<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11362570 Taylor, P., "Dyer's Grand First Quarter", ''The Argus'', Monday, 25 September, 1944), p.9.]</ref>

{{Blockquote|Rarely has a higher standard of play been seen in a first quarter in second-round games. Clapping on the pace, and with the ball the objective all through, Richmond played a strong, concerted game. With Dyer the spearhead after the first few minutes, the strong captain-coach played one of the finest games in his career to kick four of the eight goals scored [in that quarter] and take a hand in at least three others. He showed dash, cleverness, anticipation, and good marking to outwit the opposition, and, with [[Leo Merrett|[Leo] Merrett]] darting in and out of the packs to lead attacks from the wing, and the rucks functioning well, the bombardment was so intense that Essendon wilted.}}

The photograph, which also appeared on the cover of the Australian Post's $4.50 booklet of ten "Richmond Tigers" postage stamps issued in 1996 as part of the "centenary of the AFL" celebrations,<ref>[http://www.footystamps.com/rt_jack_dyer.htm Footy Stamps: Jack Dyer]</ref> has also been the basis for:
* The logo of [[The Footy Show (AFL)|''The Footy Show'']],
* Mitch Mitchell's statue of Dyer at [[Punt Road Oval]],<ref>[http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/sport/display/33268-jack-dyer The Jack Dyer Monument]</ref><ref>Kemp, Rod (21 September 2003) [http://www.dbcde.gov.au/Article/0,,0_5-2_4009-4_116865,00.html Unveiling of the Jack Dyer Statue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523233104/http://www.dbcde.gov.au/Article/0,,0_5-2_4009-4_116865,00.html |date=23 May 2011 }}</ref>
* A set of four paintings by John Balmain of [[Ron Todd (footballer)|Ron Todd]], Jack Dyer, [[John Coleman (Australian footballer)|John Coleman]], and [[Alex Jesaulenko]], issued in [[1996 AFL season|1996]] to celebrate the VFL/AFL centenary. All were taken from photographs; Dyer's was taken from the photograph of his break to score his ninth goal. It was also painted by Darcy Doyle,<ref>[https://auctions.leonardjoel.com.au/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=LJ5693+++++7+&refno=40158949&saletype= Darcy Doyle: "Captain Blood".]</ref> which was also used on the front cover of Brian Hansen's 1996 book.<ref>[http://www.blaqbooks.com.au/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2188 ''The Jack Dyer Story: The Legend of Captain Blood'']</ref>

==Order of Australia Medal (OAM) ==
John Raymond Dyer was awarded the [[Order of Australia#Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)|Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division (OAM)]], in the [[1990 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia)|1990 Queen's Birthday Honours List]], "for service to Australian Rules Football".<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/25895821 Queen's Birthday Honours List: Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division (OAM): John Raymond Dyer, ''Commonwealth of Australia Gazette'', No.S.141, (Monday, 11 June 1990), p.7.]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[AFL Team of the Century]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Bibliography==
* Dyer, J., ''Captain Blood, as told to Brian Hansen'', Paul, (London), 1965.
* Dyer, J. (St John, J. ed.), "Don't be Where the Ball Ain't: Celebrating the Immortal Humour and Wisdom of Football Legend Jack Dyer", New Holland Publications, (Chatswood), 2012. {{ISBN|1-742-57327-4}}
* Dyer, J. & Hansen, B., "'Captain Blood': Jack Dyer", pp.&nbsp;205–302 in Dyer, J. & Hansen, B., ''Captain Blood's Wild Men of Football'', Brian Edward Hansen, (Cheltenham), 1993. {{ISBN|0-646-14782-X}}
* [http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/with-love-to-capt-blood-20130814-2rw2z.html Hanlon, Peter, "With love, to Captain Blood", ''The Age'', Wednesday, 14 August 2013].
* Hansen, B., ''The Jack Dyer Story: The Legend of Captain Blood'', Brian Hansen Nominees, (Mount Waverley), 1996. {{ISBN|1-876151-01-3}}
* Hansen B: ''Tigerland: The History of the Richmond Football Club from 1885'', Richmond Former Players and Officials Association, (Melbourne), 1989. {{ISBN|0-7316-5047-6}}
* Hansen, B. & Dyer, J., ''The Wild Men of Football, Volume III: If Ya Don't Mind Umpire!'', B.E. Hansen, (Mount Waverley), 1995. {{ISBN|0-646-23042-5}}
* Hardy, Tony, ''Finding Jack Dyer: The Remarkable Story of 'Captain Blood': Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame'', The Slattery Media Group, (Richmond), 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-98-750021-2}}
* Hogan P: ''The Tigers of Old: A Complete History of Every Player to Represent the '''Richmond Football Club''' between 1908 and 1996'', Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. {{ISBN|0-646-18748-1}}
* Ross, J. (ed), ''100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported'', Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. {{ISBN|0-670-86814-0}}
* Wilmoth, P., ''Up Close: 28 Lives of Extraordinary Australians'', Pan Macmillan, (Sydney), 2005. {{ISBN|1-4050-3657-5}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070317035606/http://www.richmondfc.com.au/TheClub/History/HallofFame/tabid/7638/Default.aspx Richmond Football Club – Hall of Fame]

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* [http://www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au/Jack+Dyer Jack Dyer, at ''Boyles Football Photos''.]
* [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/23/1061529372606.html The Age report of Dyer's death]
* [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/23/1061529383134.html The Age obituary]
* [http://www.puntroadend.com/JDfuneral.htm Jack Dyer's funeral celebrations]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/jackdyer.htm Only Melbourne]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110523233104/http://www.dbcde.gov.au/Article/0,,0_5-2_4009-4_116865,00.html Speech by Senator Rod Kemp, at the unveiling of the Jack Dyer Statue on Sunday 21 September 2003]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080227200201/http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/opm/bc/CTEE/meetings/COUNCIL_51_20031127.pdf Council Permit for Jack Dyer statue to be erected in Yarra Park]
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12435698 Jack Dyer palming the ball in a ruck contest]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105135440/http://www.footybooks.com.au/controversial-books/  Brian Hansen Publications – The Jack Dyer Story]

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