Eric Glass

Eric George "Tarzan" Glass (22 February 1910 – 29 July 1985) was an Australian rules footballer who played for East Fremantle in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Williamstown in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). He also served in the Royal Australian Air Force in World War II.

Early life Glass was born on 22 February 1910 in Northam, Western Australia, and raised in Goomalling, Western Australia.

Football career East Fremantle Glass began his senior career with East Fremantle, playing in the WAFL. A "heavy, raw recruit", he debuted in 1927 and was considered to be "slow and cumbersome" at the beginning of his career. In his time with East Fremantle Glass played 55 games, and Glass accepted the offer. It was during his time at Melbourne that Glass received the nickname "Tarzan", for his ferocious determination to win the ball. in a season when the Demons finished third, their best result while Glass played for them. Glass played two more seasons for Melbourne, 1937 and 1938, but neither were as successful as his 1936 season and he could manage only 16 games throughout the two years. Glass left Melbourne at the end of 1938 having played 78 games and amassed 138 goals— In his first season with Williamstown, the Seagulls won their third VFA premiership, winning the Grand Final against Brunswick by a single point, with Glass playing as a ruck-rover. Glass played with Williamstown from 1939 until 1941, when he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force to serve in World War II. After being officially discharged from the Air Force on 5 September 1946, with the rank of corporal, and played in their 1945 Grand Final victory over Port Melbourne. In 2003 he was posthumously selected in the Williamstown Football Club's Team of the Century, in the position of ruck-rover.