Brendan Edwards

Brendan Edwards
Personal information
Date of birth	(1936-03-18) 18 March 1936
Original team(s)	Sandhurst
Height / weight	178 cm, 75 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1956–1963	Hawthorn	109 (29)
¹ Playing statistics correct to the end of 1963.
Career highlights
Hawthorn Best & Fairest Award 1960 Victorian representative 1960 Hawthorn Premiership 1961

Brendan Edwards (born 18 March 1936) is a former Australian rules football footballer who played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League VFL from 1956 to 1961 and again in the 1963 season. He won their best and fairest award in 1960 and represented Victoria at interstate football in the same season. After he was seriously injured and he retired as a player in 1963, he founded a chain of health clubs in Melbourne and pioneered the concept of aerobic fitness in Australia.

External links

Brendan Edwards's statistics from AFL Tables
Brendan Edwards's profile from AustralianFootball.com

Hawthorn Football Club 1961 VFL premiers

Hawthorn 13.16 (94) defeated Footscray 7.9 (51), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Kaine 2. Arthur (c) 3. Nalder 4. Browne 5. Fisher 7. Law 9. Edwards 10. Cooper 11. Hill 12. Winneke 14. Mort 19. Cunningham 20. S. Hay 22. P. Hay 23. Peck 26. McPherson 28. McArthur 29. Poole 30. Youren 31. Young

Coach: Kennedy

Hawthorn Football Club · Team of the Century

Full-back	Gary Ayres Kelvin Moore Albert Mills

Half-back	Col Austen Chris Mew Peter Knights

Centre	Robert DiPierdomenico Jim Bohan Brendan Edwards

Half-forward	Graham Arthur (c) Dermott Brereton Gary Buckenara

Full-forward	Jason Dunstall Peter Hudson John Platten

Ruck	Don Scott Michael Tuck Leigh Matthews

Interchange	Chris Langford Ian Law Paul Salmon Roy Simmonds

Coach	John Kennedy Sr. (footballer)

Peter Crimmins Medal · Hawthorn Football Club best and fairest winners

1925: Finch
1927: Utting
1928: Sellers
1929: Utting
1930: Sharpley
1932: Spinks
1933: Mills
1934: Loveless
1935: Mills
1936: Murphy
1937: Murphy
1938: Spinks
1939: Mills
1940: Angwin
1941: Albiston
1942: Barker
1943: Bohan
1944: Blackman
1945: Bohan
1946: Albiston
1947: Culpitt
1948: Curran
1949: Austen
1950: Kennedy
1951: Kennedy
1952: Kennedy
1953: Fletcher
1954: Kennedy
1955: Arthur
1956: Simmonds
1957: Hughes
1958: Arthur
1959: Woodley
1960: Edwards
1961: Law
1962: Arthur
1963: Law
1964: Law
1965: Parkin
1966: Wilson
1967: Keddie
1968: Hudson
1969: Keddie
1970: Hudson
1971: Matthews
1972: Matthews
1973: Scott
1974: Matthews
1975: Knights
1976: Matthews
1977: Matthews
1978: Matthews/Knights
1979: Moore
1980: Matthews
1981: Wallace
1982: Matthews
1983: Wallace
1984: Greene
1985: Brereton
1986: Ayres
1987: Platten
1988: Dunstall
1989: Dunstall
1990: Collins
1991: Allan
1992: Dunstall
1993: Dunstall
1994: Platten
1995: Jarman
1996: Salmon
1997: Salmon
1998: Crawford
1999: Crawford
2000: Chick/Holland
2001: Smith
2002: Crawford
2003: Crawford
2004: Everitt
2005: Hodge
2006: Mitchell
2007: Sewell
2008: Franklin
2009: Mitchell
2010: Hodge
2011: Mitchell
2012: Mitchell
2013: Gibson
2014: Lewis
2015: Gibson
2016: Mitchell

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