John Maxwell "Jackie" Huggard (28 January 1926 – 20 April 2016) was an
Australian rules football
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 oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er who played with
Essendon and
North Melbourne in the
Victorian Football League (VFL).
He won Essendon's reserves
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 ...
in 1945. He worked as an engineer for
Trans Australia Airlines. Huggard's father,
Jack, played VFL football for
Richmond
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.
Notes
External links
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Essendon Football Club past player profile
1926 births
2016 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Essendon Football Club players
North Melbourne Football Club players
Cobram Football Club players
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