A photograph was taken of Richmond captain-coach Dyer, aged 30 and playing his 222nd game, wearing white strapping on his left thumb and a dirty knee bandage on his left knee, breaking away from the pack, with his eyes fixed on the Lake end goals (Dyer went on to kick a goal) in the last quarter of the 1944 Preliminary Final, held at the Junction Oval on Saturday 23 September 1944, in which Richmond defeated Essendon, primarily due to Dyer's nine goals.

Led by a four-goal burst by Dyer, who was playing at full-forward –  – Richmond scored 8.2 (50) to 0.5 (5) in the first quarter (kicking against the wind); and, although Essendon outscored Richmond in the last three quarters, Richmond won the match 16.12 (108) to 12.15 (87).

Dyer's performance that day was one of the best individual performances by a Richmond player in the club's history.

The photograph, which also appeared on the cover of the Australian Post's $4.50 booklet of ten "Richmond Tigers" postage stamps issued in 1996 as part of the "centenary of the AFL" celebrations, has also been the basis for:
The logo of The Footy Show,
Mitch Mitchell's statue of Dyer at Punt Road Oval,
In 1996, the year the AFL celebrated the VFL/AFL centenary, it issued a set of four paintings by John Balmain of Ron Todd, Jack Dyer, John Coleman, and  Alex Jesaulenko.
All were taken from photographs; Dyer's was taken from the photograph of his break to score his ninth goal.
It was also painted by Darcy Doyle, which was also used on the front cover of Brian Hansen's 1996 book.
A photograph was taken of Richmond captain-coach Dyer, aged 30 and playing his 222nd game, wearing white strapping on his left thumb and a dirty knee bandage on his left knee, breaking away from the pack, with his eyes fixed on the Lake end goals (Dyer went on to kick a goal) in the last quarter of the 1944 Preliminary Final, held at the Junction Oval on Saturday 23 September 1944, in which Richmond defeated Essendon, primarily due to Dyer's nine goals.
Led by a four-goal burst by Dyer, who was playing at full-forward –  – Richmond scored 8.2 (50) to 0.5 (5) in the first quarter (kicking against the wind); and, although Essendon outscored Richmond in the last three quarters, Richmond won the match 16.12 (108) to 12.15 (87).
Dyer's performance that day was one of the best individual performances by a Richmond player in the club's history.
The photograph, which also appeared on the cover of the Australian Post's $4.50 booklet of ten "Richmond Tigers" postage stamps issued in 1996 as part of the "centenary of the AFL" celebrations, has also been the basis for:
The logo of The Footy Show,
Mitch Mitchell's statue of Dyer at Punt Road Oval,
In 1996, the year the AFL celebrated the VFL/AFL centenary, it issued a set of four paintings by John Balmain of Ron Todd, Jack Dyer, John Coleman, and  Alex Jesaulenko. All were taken from photographs; Dyer's was taken from the photograph of his break to score his ninth goal. It was also painted by Darcy Doyle, which was also used on the front cover of Brian Hansen's 1996 book.
Jack Dyer