Edward Jackson
Personal information
Date of birth 16 March 1925
Date of death 5 February 1996(1996-02-05) (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.

References

  1. ^ "Edward Jackson - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  2. ^ "MELBOURNE SIGN UP ABORIGINAL ROVER". The Herald. No. 21, 794. Victoria, Australia. 27 March 1947. p. 26. Retrieved 6 May 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ 'Clubman', "Echuca Lad is Best of his Year in City Games", The Weekly Times, (Wednesday, 3 September 1947), p.54.
  4. ^ "1954 - Eddie Jackson: BFL Best & Fairest". The Riverine Herald. 1 September 1954. p. 1. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  5. ^ "1954 - Best & Fairest for Bendigo". The Age. 1 September 1954. p. 16. Retrieved 3 March 2021.

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