Edward Greeves

Edward Greeves

Infobox afl player | firstname = Edward
lastname = Greeves




image size = 100
birthdate = birth date|1903|11|1|df=y
birthplace = Warragul, Victoria
originalteam = Geelong College
heightweight = 176cm/76kg
dead = dead
deathdate = death date and age|df=yes|1963|4|15|1903|11|1
deathplace = Ararat, Victoria
debutdate = 1923
debutteam = Geelong
debutopponent = Essendon
debutstadium =
playingteams = Geelong (1923-1931)

124 games, 17 goals
coach = notcoach
coachingteams =
statsend = 1931
careerhighlights =

*Brownlow Medal, 1924
* Runner-up Brownlow Medal 1925, 1926, 1928
* Geelong premiership player 1925, 1931
*Inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame
*Geelong Team of the Century

Edward "Carji" Greeves (1 November 1903 - 15 April 1963) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. He was the winner of the inaugural Brownlow Medal in 1924, for the best and fairest player in the VFL (now the Australian Football League).

Greeves played with the Geelong Football Club from 1923-31 and wore jumper number 20.

Best known by the nickname E "Carji" Greeves, he was given the nickname as a baby by a friend of the family, the New South Wales golfer Michael Scott, after he had seen "Carjillo, the Rajah of Bong", a popular play of the day. [ cite book |last=Ross |first=John |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Australian Football Hall of Fame |year=1999 |publisher=HarperCollinsPublishers |location=Australia |id=ISBN 0-7322-6426-X | pages=p. 71 ]

Greeves was honoured with having the Geelong Football Club's Best and Fairest award named after him, the Carji Greeves Medal. In 1996 Greeves was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Greeves represented Victoria seven times.

References

* [http://prod.www.afl.cfour.com.au/Season2007/Awards/HallofFame/Players/tabid/856/Default.aspx AFL site: Australian Football Hall of Fame]

External links

* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090101b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography: Greeves, Edward Goderich (Carji) (1903 - 1963)]


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