Jim "Nipper" Bradford (2 March 1926 – 8 March 2005) 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 ...

player. He played seven games with Collingwood in 1943, and nine with

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in 1949. He was the shortest player ever to play Australian rules football at the highest level. He stood five feet tall (152 centimetres). Bradford played 76 games for Camberwell and kicked 169 goals (1945-48). He won Camberwell's best and fairest in 1945, 1946. He was named as the rover in

Camberwell Football Club Camberwell Football Club was an Australian rules football club which formed around the mid-1880s, with a published match in 1886 and competed in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) between 1926 and 1990. Nicknamed the Cobras, Camberwell wo ...

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* Collingwood Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club players Camberwell Football Club players West Torrens Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) 1926 births 2005 deaths {{AFL-bio-1920s-stub