Edward Jackson | |||
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Personal information | |||
Date of birth | 16 March 1925 | ||
Date of death | 5 February 1996 | (aged 70)||
Original team(s) | Echuca ( Bendigo FL) | ||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1947–1952 | Melbourne | 84 (10) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1952. | |||
Career highlights | |||
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Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Edward "Ted" Jackson (16 March 1925 – 5 February 1996) [1] was an Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Edwards was one of few league players of Indigenous Australian heritage in the 1940s. [2]
At the end of the 1947, "Clubman", the Weekly Times football correspondent rated ex-Echuca Melbourne player, Eddie Jackson, the best of all of the first-year "former country players" in that year's VFL Competition: the second-best was the ex-Wycheproof Collingwood player, Alex Denney, and the third-best was the ex-Granya Footscray player, Norm Webb. [3]
He played in the Melbourne team in the 1948 Grand Final.
Jackson won the 1954 Bendigo Football League best and fairest award, the Michelsen Medal [4] [5] after he returned to play with Echuca.
Edward Jackson | |||
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Personal information | |||
Date of birth | 16 March 1925 | ||
Date of death | 5 February 1996 | (aged 70)||
Original team(s) | Echuca ( Bendigo FL) | ||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1947–1952 | Melbourne | 84 (10) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1952. | |||
Career highlights | |||
| |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Edward "Ted" Jackson (16 March 1925 – 5 February 1996) [1] was an Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Edwards was one of few league players of Indigenous Australian heritage in the 1940s. [2]
At the end of the 1947, "Clubman", the Weekly Times football correspondent rated ex-Echuca Melbourne player, Eddie Jackson, the best of all of the first-year "former country players" in that year's VFL Competition: the second-best was the ex-Wycheproof Collingwood player, Alex Denney, and the third-best was the ex-Granya Footscray player, Norm Webb. [3]
He played in the Melbourne team in the 1948 Grand Final.
Jackson won the 1954 Bendigo Football League best and fairest award, the Michelsen Medal [4] [5] after he returned to play with Echuca.