Edward Arthur Tyson was an Australian rules footballer who played for the West Perth Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League.
12 Facts About Ted Tyson
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An inaugural member of the West Australian Football Hall of Fame, Ted Tyson held the League record for career goals before being overtaken by Austin Robertson, Jr.
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Ted Tyson's career achievements were somewhat overshadowed by the fact that he was a contemporary and often compared to East Fremantle legend George Doig.
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Ted Tyson came from a leading Western Australian footballing family; his uncle Charlie Ted Tyson played for Collingwood and North Melbourne Football Clubs in the Victorian Football League, while his grandfather, father and four other uncles played football to a high standard.
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Ted Tyson debuted for the Cardinals in 1930 and kicked over fifty goals despite the club winning only six and drawing one of its eighteen games.
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Between 1933 and 1937, although Ted Tyson kicked over 100 goals four times, Doig beat him for the league's leading goal-kicker award and the full forward position in the State's team.
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Nonetheless, Ted Tyson played in two further Cardinal premiership teams in 1934 and 1935, and in 1938 managed to head the WANFL goalkicking with 126 goals, a figure made more remarkable because the once-powerful Cardinals had fallen to finish last on the ladder with only three wins.
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The 1939 season was even worse for the Cardinals, who had lost twenty-seven successive matches before their only win late in the season, in which Ted Tyson kicked his thousandth career goal during the final quarter.
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Ted Tyson planned to retire after an operation before being coaxed into playing again.
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Ted Tyson married a grand-daughter of Wally Watts, a former Midland Junction player, and was a brother-in-law of Laurie Bandy, who played cricket for Western Australia.
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Ted Tyson died in February 1996, aged 86, in Hamersley, a northern suburb of Perth.
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In 2004, Ted Tyson was one of the inaugural inductees in the West Australian Football Hall of Fame.