Jack MacDonald was an Australian rules football

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Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played with Hawthorn

Hawthorn Football Club

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 in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL).

McDonald, from Carey Grammar originally, came to Hawthorn from Camberwell

Camberwell Football Club

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. He had initially trained with Melbourne

Melbourne Football Club

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, but Hawthorn made a claim for him as he was in their residential zone.

After finishing second to Pat Cash

Pat Cash, Sr.

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in the Hawthorn goal-kicking in his first season, he topped the list in 1952, with 25 goals.