Edward Jackson (footballer)
| 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) | |
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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) 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.
Jackson was captain-coach of Thornton Eildon when they won the 1961 Waranga North East Football Association premiership.