Jim Edmond is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er.

Debuting in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL) in 1977, Edmond was the former captain of Footscray Football Club between 1983 and 1985. He also won the goalkicking in 1981 with 25 goals. He played in three finals matches for the Bulldogs in 1985 before leaving the club over a contractual dispute.

Edmond played at the Sydney Swans

Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...

 in 1986, before being a Foundation Member of the Brisbane Bears

Brisbane Bears

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 in 1987, retiring not long afterwards.

His elder brother Bob

Bob Edmond

Bob Edmond is a former Australian sportsman who played Australian rules footballer with Carlton in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s and won two Commonwealth Games silver medals in weightlifting....

also played in the VFL and was a dual Commonwealth Games silver medalist in weightlifting.

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