Edward Jackson
1925–1996 (age 71)
Biography
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.
Jackson's father, Eddie Jackson Senior was a country footballer and premiership coach in the 1920's and 1930's.
Jackson played in Echuca's losing 1945 Echuca Football League grand final side.
Jackson was a member of Echuca East Football Club's losing 1946 Echuca Football League grand final side, which was coached by his father, Eddie Jackson Senior.
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 Melbourne's winning premiership team in the 1948 VFL Grand Final and also played in the 1948 drawn VFL grand final, the week before.