Craig Edwards (born 25 April 1961) is a former

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er who played for East Perth and South Fremantle in the

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(WAFL). Edwards won the 1989 Sandover Medal as the best player in the competition and was named as one of the top 25 WAFL players of the 25 years from

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Career

Edwards was born in Mt Lawley,

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

and grew up in

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. He attended Hillcrest Primary School and

John Forrest Secondary College John Forrest Secondary College (abbreviated as JFSC) is an Independent Public secondary school in the Perth suburb of Morley, Western Australia. History John Forrest Secondary College was established in 1961 as Embleton High School. In 1963, it ...

. He played football for the East Perth-Highgate Junior Football Club. He started playing colts football for East Perth in 1977, making his senior debut in 1979 in an

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match in Melbourne at VFL Park. He then played three games for East Perth before being dropped back to the reserves, and a further 70 games over the next four seasons. At the end of the 1983 season he was recruited by South Fremantle and went on to play for them for the next nine seasons. He was one of the favourites for the 1988 Sandover Medal, but came second by two votes to

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. The following year he polled one less vote, but won the count by three votes from

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. He continues to play for another 4 seasons, sharing the WAFL goal-kicking award with Kevin Caton in his last season in 1992, although his total of 48 goals was the lowest to be leading goalkicker since 1923. He played in two losing WAFL grand finals, in 1989 and 1992. He played for

on seven occasions, kicking 4 goals.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Craig 1961 births Australian rules footballers from Western Australia Living people Sandover Medal winners East Perth Football Club players South Fremantle Football Club players