Jim_Bradford_(footballer)

Jim Bradford (footballer)

Jim Bradford (footballer)

Australian rules footballer

Jim "Nipper" Bradford (2 March 1926 – 8 March 2005)[1] was an Australian rules football player. He played seven games with Collingwood in 1943, and nine with North Melbourne in 1949.[2][3]

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He was the shortest player ever to play Australian rules football at the highest level. He stood five feet tall (152 centimetres).[4]

Bradford played 76 games for Camberwell and kicked 169 goals (1945-48). He won Camberwell's best and fairest in 1945, 1946.

He was named as the rover in Camberwell Football Club's Team of the Century.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Jim Bradford". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  2. [2]
    Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2002). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (4th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content. p. 59. ISBN 1-74095-001-1.
  3. [3]
    "Jim Bradford - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  4. [4]
    Jim Main, Aussie rules for Dummies (2nd edition, 2008), p 16.
  5. [5]
    "Camberwell Team of the Century". Archived from the original on 7 May 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2009.


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