Edward Pruen Cordner (31 January 1919 – 4 March 1996) was an

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er who played with

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in the

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(VFL) during the 1940s.

Family

The older brother of Melbourne Team of the Century members

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and

Don Cordner Donald Pruen Cordner (21 January 1922 – 13 May 2009), M.B.B.S. was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s. His brothers Denis, John and Ted also played for the club. ...

, Ted would have played more than 52 games had he not pursued a medical career. His youngest brother was

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. He married Elizabeth Anne Baillieu on 4 December 1951.Dr. Cordner Weds at St. John's, ''The Herald'', ($ December 1951), p. 13.
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Football

Cordner joined the club in 1941 and was a member of their premiership winning side. He missed the entire 1944 and 1945 seasons due to him being busy serving as a naval doctor but managed to play 19 games in 1946 as well as representing

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in an interstate match.

Footnotes

References

*Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

External links

* *
Ted Cordner, at ''Demonwiki''.
1919 births VFL/AFL players born outside Australia Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Melbourne Football Club players University Blacks Football Club players 1996 deaths Melbourne Football Club premiership players VFL/AFL premiership players People from Diamond Creek, Victoria Royal Australian Navy personnel of World War II Medical doctors from Melbourne Military personnel from Melbourne 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1919-stub