Edward Cordner

Edward Cordner
Personal information
Full name	Edward Rae "Ted" Cordner
Date of birth	18 June 1887
Place of birth	Sandhurst, Victoria
Date of death	21 July 1963 (aged 76)
Place of death	Greensborough, Victoria
Original team(s)	Melbourne Grammar
Position(s)	Defender
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1905 1908–12 Total	Melbourne University	02 (0) 60 (8) 62 (8)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1912 season.

Edward Rae "Ted" Cordner (18 June 1887 – 21 July 1963)^[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and University in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Education

He graduated M.B., Ch.B. from the University of Melbourne in 1910.

Football

Ted's brother Harry Cordner, and his cousins Alan Cordner and "Larry" Cordner, also played senior VFL football. Ted is the father of the Don Cordner, Dennis Cordner, Ted Cordner and John Cordner who all played for Melbourne in the 1940s.

Soldier

Captain Edward Rae "Ted" Cordner, served as a medical officer in the 6th Field Ambulance.^[2] His brother, Dr. Henry "Harry" Cordner, overseas at the time that war broke out, was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and served in France.^[3]

See also

• List of Australian rules football families

Footnotes

1. "University Football Club: Biographies - Personalities" (PDF). Melbourne University Football Club. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
2. World War I Nominal Roll: Cordner, Edward Rae.
3. The Argus, 29 August 1914.

Sources

• Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
• Edward Cordner's statistics from AFL Tables