Edward Jackson (footballer)

For other people with the same name, see Edward Jackson (disambiguation).

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^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1947–1952	Melbourne	84 (10)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1952.
Career highlights
Melbourne premiership player 1948
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.

External links

• Edward Jackson's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Edward Jackson at AustralianFootball.com
• Eddie Jackson profile at Demonwiki