Brendan Edwards
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:53 pm
Does anyone know if Brendan Edwards the Hawthorn great is still alive ?
Need to know for a poem ?
Bob
Need to know for a poem ?
Bob
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Re: Brendan Edwards
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:33 pm
Hawthorn!!..where's that, does he play tennis or something.
Re: Brendan Edwards
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:57 pm
Still going mate!
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.
No one epitomised wholehearted adherence to Hawthorn coach John Kennedy's 'commando ethic' better than Brendan Edwards. A prototype of the modern day 'athlete footballer', Edwards, who hailed from Bendigo Football League club Sandhurst, was fanatically devoted to personal fitness, and few players before or since have run out a game better. During his comparatively brief, 109 game VFL career he was a regular Big V selection and won the Hawks' best and fairest award in 1960. Arguably his best, and certainly his most significant, performance came in the 1961 grand final when he was head and shoulders above every other player afield in Hawthorn's breakthrough VFL premiership win over Footscray.
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.
No one epitomised wholehearted adherence to Hawthorn coach John Kennedy's 'commando ethic' better than Brendan Edwards. A prototype of the modern day 'athlete footballer', Edwards, who hailed from Bendigo Football League club Sandhurst, was fanatically devoted to personal fitness, and few players before or since have run out a game better. During his comparatively brief, 109 game VFL career he was a regular Big V selection and won the Hawks' best and fairest award in 1960. Arguably his best, and certainly his most significant, performance came in the 1961 grand final when he was head and shoulders above every other player afield in Hawthorn's breakthrough VFL premiership win over Footscray.
Re: Brendan Edwards
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:16 pm
Re: Brendan Edwards
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:50 pm
Yep already read all that Keats but i was trying to find out if he is still alive ?
Bob
Bob
Re: Brendan Edwards
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:11 pm
He said he is, but you know what liars those Hawthorn mongrels are!!!
Re: Brendan Edwards
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:01 am
He's only 75 . . . probably still doing laps of Glenferrie Oval.
Go the Hawks!
Go the Hawks!
Re: Brendan Edwards
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:41 am
Too late gone for THE RAT now. Johnny Platten at least I know he is still kicking.
Bob
Bob
Re: Brendan Edwards
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:24 am
Bob how dare you use my car rego number RAT 239 
why 
bill w
RAT 239 why bill w
Re: Brendan Edwards
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 8:30 am
Hang on are you not the fella who says he is broke and a battler ?
I can't afford pesonalised plates but if I could it would not be RAT.
Bob
I can't afford pesonalised plates but if I could it would not be RAT.
Bob