Mal Seddon

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}}

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{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Mal Seddon

| image = Mal Seddon 1911-1921.jpg

| caption = Seddon in 1914

| fullname = Malcolm Seddon

| birth_date = 31 May 1888

| birth_place = Collingwood, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|8|30|1888|5|31|df=yes}}

| death_place = Abbotsford, Victoria

| originalteam = Collingwood District

| debutdate = 18 July 1911

| debutteam = Collingwood

| debutopponent = Geelong

| debutstadium = Corio Oval

| height = 182 cm

| weight = 81 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1921

| years1 = 1911–15, 1919–21

| club1 = Collingwood

| games_goals1 = 102 (56)

| careerhighlights = * 1919 Premiership Team

}}

Malcolm 'Doc' Seddon (31 May 1888 – 30 August 1955){{cite web|url=https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/players/mal-seddon/|title=Mal Seddon|publisher=Collingwood Forever|accessdate=6 September 2014}} was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Seddon was also a veteran of World War I, where he fought in Europe and spent time in the Middle East from 1915 to 1919. Seddon survived the war and returned to play for Collingwood in 1919.

Controversially, Seddon's drill sergeant, a supporter of rival VFL club Carlton, put Seddon and Collingwood teammate Paddy Rowan through a 10-mile route march on the morning of the 1915 Grand Final.[http://news.ninemsn.com.au/sport/97215/new-look-mcg-honours-the-anzacs New look MCG honours the ANZACs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005003921/http://news.ninemsn.com.au/sport/97215/new-look-mcg-honours-the-anzacs |date=5 October 2012 }}

Whilst overseas, Seddon sent back a horseshoe made from a German bomb along with the remnants of a German aircraft shot down by Australian soldiers at the Battle of the Somme.[http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/dont-mess-with-anzac-spirit/story-e6frfifo-1225707136535 Don't mess with Anzac spirit] Seddon sent them to the club as a gesture of good luck. In Seddon's absence, Collingwood won the 1917 Premiership.

Items sent back from Seddon during the war can be seen on display at Collingwood's Holden Centre in Melbourne.

In Seddon's first season back after the war, he was a part of the 1919 Collingwood premiership team that defeated Richmond.