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Australian rules footballer
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 career
Years Club Games (Goals)
1947–1952 Melbourne 84 (10)
Playing statistics correct to the end of 1952.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Edward "Ted" Jackson (16 March 1925 – 5 February 1996) 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.

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.

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 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.

External links

Melbourne Football Club 1948 VFL premiers
Melbourne 10.9 (69) drew with Essendon 7.27 (69), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground;
Melbourne 13.11 (89) defeated Essendon 7.8 (50), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Coach: Hughes


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