[3] Melbourne recruited Don Hooper from Dandenong High School, and when he broke into league ranks in 1932 he was one of the youngest ruckmen in the VFL.

Three strong seasons led to his selection to tour South Australia with the state team in 1934, but he only played eight games the next year before being dropped.

He returned for three more games with the Demons in 1943 while serving in World War II.. Hooper joined the Australian Army in 1940,[5] initially serving in the Middle East from 1940 to 1943 where he was promoted to Sergeant.

[6] He returned to Australia in 1943, playing football briefly, before travelling to Scotland in 1944 to attend an Army Educational Course at St Andrews University.

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