Edward Jackson (footballer) explained

Edward Jackson
Birth Date:	16 March 1925
Originalteam:	Echuca (Bendigo FL)
Height:	175cm
Weight:	70 kg
Statsend:	1952
Years1:	1947–1952
Club1:	Melbourne
Games Goals1:	84 (10)
Careerhighlights:	Melbourne premiership player 1948

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.

External links

• • • Eddie Jackson profile at Demonwiki

Notes and References

1. Web site: Edward Jackson - Player Bio. Australian Football. 20 November 2014.
2. News: MELBOURNE SIGN UP ABORIGINAL ROVER . . 21,794 . Victoria, Australia . 27 March 1947 . 6 May 2022 . 26 . National Library of Australia.
3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224901524 'Clubman', "Echuca Lad is Best of his Year in City Games", The Weekly Times, (Wednesday, 3 September 1947), p.54.
4. Web site: 1954 - Eddie Jackson: BFL Best & Fairest . The Riverine Herald . 3 March 2021 . 1 . 1 September 1954.
5. Web site: 1954 - Best & Fairest for Bendigo . The Age . 3 March 2021 . 16 . 1 September 1954.