Career
He was the brother of Geelong great Alec Eason. A centreman, Eason will forever hold a place in the Geelong record books as being their first football player to play 200 VFL games. Bill was also an outstanding cricketer in the Geelong Cricket Association taking 547 wickets 10.7 from 1902-1931.
G.C.A. Team Of The Century.
He is buried at the East Geelong Cemetery in a family plot that is marked with his younger brother"s headstone who died of injuries sustained in a football match at the Corio Oval aged in his early twenties.