He lost five years of his playing career as a result of World War II, but by 1947 Emmett was enjoying first-class success.
Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted that it "caused something approaching national outrage".
"It was not so much the choice of Emmett, a highly-rated attacking opening batsman, that caused the stir as the absence of the man he replaced".
[1] Emmett stayed at Gloucestershire, playing with distinction, until 1959, and captained the county from 1955 to 1958.
George Emmett died in Knowle, Bristol, in December 1976, at the age of 64.