Fred Edwards (footballer)

Charles Frederick Edwards (9 October 1891 – 3 October 1972), variously known as "Fred Edwards" and as "Charlie Edwards",^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[2]

The son of Charles James Edwards (1866-1938),^[3] and Sarah Annie Edwards (1868-1907), née Smith,^[4][5] Charles Frederick Edwards was born at Richmond, Victoria on 9 October 1891.^[6]

He married Violet Daphne Hailes (1891-1963) on 7 November 1914.^[7][8]

Recruited by Essendon from the Beverley Football Club in the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (MJFA)^{[broken anchor]}, he played one senior game for Essendon: against Richmond on 3 May 1913.^[9]

The three "new" Essendon footballers who had played on 3 May 1913 — that is, Edwards, Hughie Tait, and Jim Moore — were not selected to play against Collingwood on the following Saturday (10 May 1913).

Cleared from Essendon to Melbourne on 2 July 1913.^[10]

He died at Windsor, Victoria on 3 October 1972.^[11]

• Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
• Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8
• Topics of the Week: Prominent North Richmond Business Man Retires. — Mr. W.A. Lovell, of Victoria street, Succeeded by "Footbailer" Edwards, The Richmond Guardian, (Saturday, 8 February 1919), p.2.

• Fred Edwards's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Fred Edwards at AustralianFootball.com
• Charlie Edwards, at Demonwiki.

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