This week the WRFL celebrates one of the western suburbs’ greatest ever players, Ted ‘EJ’ Whitten, in the league’s dedicated EJ Whitten Round.
Born and bred in Melbourne’s west, EJ played his junior football for the Braybrook Football Club in the then FDFL, before progressing up the ranks to play a total of 321 games for Footscray in the Victorian Football League.
Earning the title “Mr. Football”, EJ’s on field achievements are beyond every boyhood dream, appointed captain/coach of Footscray for 12 seasons, five time club Best and Fairest awards, three time All-Australian, 1954 premiership, Legend in the AFL Hall of Fame, Captain of the AFL Team of the Century and the list goes on and on.
As part of the celebration this week, the WRFL will be awarding two EJ Whitten Medals to the best on ground players at each of our Division 1 and Division 2 Senior matches. At the conclusion of each match, the coach from each team will award the medal to their own best player on the field in a joint presentation.
EJ Whitten Foundation CEO Ted Whitten Jnr will be in attendance at the WYN FM Match of the Day radio game between Wyndhamvale v Glen Orden to present the medals to the best on ground players for this match, while EJ Whitten Foundation representative, Michael Fitzgerald will be awarding the medals at the Division 1 match between Spotswood v Altona on the day as well.
The WRFL is in its fourth year of the partnership with the EJ Whitten Foundation and has raised in excess of $30,000 for our community partner. Since its inception in 1995, the EJ Whitten Foundation has raised over $7.5million for prostate cancer research and men’s health awareness.
With 3,300 men dying from prostate cancer each year, the need to promote early detection has never been more relevant. For a look at how early detection save lives, be sure to click on the below link when we talk to former Footscray great Gordon Casey about his survival story. READ MORE...
Last Modified on 26/06/2014 09:35