Bill Pearson (footballer)

Bill Pearson
Personal information
Full name	Bill Pearson
Date of birth	11 June 1922
Date of death	6 December 2010 (aged 88)
Original team(s)	La Mascotte (EDFL)
Height/Weight	177 cm / 82 kg
Position(s)	Centreman
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1945–47	Essendon	51 (24)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947 season.

Bill Pearson (11 June 1922 – 6 December 2010) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s.^[1]

Pearson was recruited from La Mascotte and in just his third league game kicked four goals to help his club defeat Carlton by 100 points. He was the centreman in the Essendon premiership side of 1946 and finished tenth in that season's Brownlow Medal count with 13 votes, the most by an Essendon player.

A knee injury in 1947 ended Pearson's career when a series of operations, five in total, weren't enough to allow him to play again.^[2]

References

1. Premiership player Bill Pearson passes away
2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2002). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (4th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content. p. 513. ISBN 1-74095-001-1.

External links

• Bill Pearson's statistics from AFL Tables