Bill Jackson (Australian footballer)

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| name = Bill Jackson

| image =

| fullname = William Charles Jackson

| birth_date = 13 April 1874

| death_date = {{death date and age|1921|9|11|1874|4|13|df=y}}

| death_place = Collie, Western Australia{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57976917 |title=DEATH OF "NEWHAVEN" JACKSON |newspaper=Sunday Times (Perth) |issue=1237 |location=Western Australia |date=18 September 1921 |page=2}}

| originalteam = Ballarat Imperials

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| weight =

| position = Follower, forward

| statsend = 1903

| years1 = 1898–1900

| club1 = Essendon

| games_goals1 = 27 (22)

| years2 = 1903

| club2 = St Kilda

| games_goals2 = 6 (3)

| games_goalstotal = 33 (25)

| careerhighlights =

}}

Bill 'Newhaven' Jackson (13 April 1874 – 11 September 1921) was an Australian cyclist and an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2014), p.432.

Football

Jackson, who was nicknamed after a Melbourne Cup winning horse, came to Essendon from Ballarat Imperials. He played as a follower in the 1898 VFL Grand Final loss to Fitzroy but was also used as a forward during his career. Jackson injured his knee early in Essendon's 1900 semi final encounter with Melbourne and retired. He returned in the 1903 season as captain of St Kilda.

=1899 team of "champions"=

At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus, Reginald Wilmot ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:

Backs: Maurie Collins (Essendon), Bill Proudfoot (Collingwood), Peter Burns (Geelong).
Halfbacks: Pat Hickey (Fitzroy), George Davidson (South Melbourne), Alf Wood (Melbourne).
Centres: Fred Leach (Collingwood), Firth McCallum (Geelong), Harry Wright (Essendon).
Wings: Charlie Pannam (Collingwood), Eddie Drohan (Fitzroy), Herb Howson (South Melbourne).
Forwards: Bill Jackson (Essendon), Eddy James (Geelong), Charlie Colgan (South Melbourne).
Ruck: Mick Pleass (South Melbourne), Frank Hailwood (Collingwood), Joe McShane (Geelong).
Rovers: Dick Condon (Collingwood), Bill McSpeerin (Fitzroy), Teddy Rankin (Geelong).

From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — Wilmot selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9030781 'Old Boy', "Football: A Review of the Season", (Monday, 18 September 1899), p. 6.]

Cycling

Also a successful cyclist, Jackson won Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic in 1897{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article121530113 |title=WARRNAMBOOL TO MELBOURNE ROAD RACE. |newspaper=Referee |issue=570 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=29 September 1897 |page=3}} and two Australian Cycling Championships.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221148838 |title=W. C. JACKSON. |newspaper=Weekly Times |issue=1,547 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=1 April 1899 |page=17}}

Notes

References

[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197540599 'Follower', "The Footballers' Alphabet", The Leader, (Saturday, 23 July 1898), p.17.]
Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1-921496-32-5}}.