: ''For the 1930s North Melbourne player, see

Stewart Anderson (footballer) Stewart Anderson (7 June 1911 – 4 June 1997) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Anderson spent three seasons at St Kilda, after arriving to the club fr ...

.'' Stuart Anderson (born 27 June 1974) is 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. He comes from the Victorian town of Sale. In 1994 he was drafted by

North Melbourne North Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne local government area. North Melbourne recorded a population of 14,953 at the ...

where he played 61 games as a midfielder/half-forward, including the 1996 premiership. At the end of the 1997 he was traded to the

Fremantle Dockers The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of Fr ...

in return for

Winston Abraham Winston Abraham (born 29 September 1974) is a former Australian rules footballer. During his Australian Football League, AFL career he played as a Half-forward line, half forward. Early career Abraham played in the Western Australian Sunday Fo ...

. His career declined after the move west, only managing to play 9 games in 1998 for the Dockers. After failing to be selected in the league team at the beginning of the 1999 season, Anderson left the Fremantle Football Club mid year. He was educated at

Wesley College, Melbourne , motto_translation = Dare To Be Wise , slogan = A ''True'' Education (2010 – Present) , established = 18 January 1866 , type = Independent, day & boarding , gender ...

. Anderson played 21 first eleven games for the

Melbourne Cricket Club The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) is a sports club based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1838 and is one of the oldest sports clubs in Australia. The MCC is responsible for management and development of the Melbourne Cricket Ground ...

between 1992/93 and 2000/01. He is the cousin of Australian comedian

Wil Anderson William James Anderson (born 31 January 1974) is an Australian comedian, writer, presenter, and podcaster. Early life William James Anderson was born on 31 January 1974 in Sale, Victoria, and grew up on a dairy farm near Heyfield, Victoria.< ...

Statistics

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

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1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

, style="text-align:center;", , 6 , , 9 , , 3 , , 2 , , 62 , , 41 , , 103 , , 30 , , 6 , , 0.3 , , 0.2 , , 6.9 , , 4.6 , , 11.4 , , 3.3 , , 0.7 , , 0 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 70 ! 23 ! 22 ! 526 ! 349 ! 875 ! 154 ! 55 ! 0.3 ! 0.3 ! 7.5 ! 5.0 ! 12.5 ! 2.2 ! 0.8 ! 2

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Stuart 1974 births Living people Fremantle Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club premiership players Sale Football Club players People educated at Wesley College (Victoria) Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) People from Sale, Victoria Peel Thunder Football Club players South Fremantle Football Club players VFL/AFL premiership players