Jack Green was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton

Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

 and Hawthorn

Hawthorn Football Club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...

 in the VFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 during the late 1920s and 1930s.

Green started his VFL career with Carlton and was used as a key position player. During this time he earned selection for the Victorian interstate side. He moved to Hawthorn for the 1934 season and played at full forward, a position he had success in prior to his VFL career, having once kicked 118 goals in a season with the University Blacks. In his first season at Hawthorn he kicked a club record 80 goals. It remained a record until 1968 when it was bettered by Peter Hudson

Peter Hudson

Peter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest full-forwards in the game's history....

. He again topped Hawthorn's goalkicking the following season with 63 goals.

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