Esmond James Lane (25 June 1929 – 28 May 2018) was an
Australian rules
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
footballer who played with
South Melbourne
South Melbourne is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area. South Melbourne recorded a population of 11,548 at the 2021 ...
in the
VFL during the 1950s.
Lane was a 168 cm rover and handy goalkicker. His best season came in 1954 when he won the South Melbourne
Best and Fairest
In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
award and finished equal 3rd in the Brownlow Medal. He topped the club's goal kicking in both 1954 and 1955.
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Eddie Lane photo
1929 births
2018 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Sydney Swans players
Bob Skilton Medal winners
20th-century Australian sportsmen
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