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Max Nixon (Australian rules footballer)

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Max Nixon
Personal information
Full name Maxwell John Nixon
Nickname(s) Poss[1]
Date of birth (1931-12-24)24 December 1931
Date of death 6 January 2019(2019-01-06) (aged 87)
Original team(s) Orbost
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 81 kg (179 lb)
Position(s) Half-forward
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1956 Essendon 6 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1956.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Maxwell John Nixon (24 December 1931 – 6 January 2019) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Nixon played six seasons for Gippsland Football League club Orbost from 1949 to 1955. He played many positions, but winning the Trood award as league best and fairest in 1953 playing in the centre.[3] He spent the first half of the 1956 season with Essendon on match permits, and showed good form across six games,[1] but returned home to his farming commitments in Orbost.

Notes

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  1. ^ a b "'Poss' made his fans feel proud". The Argus. 21 May 1956. p. 16.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 659. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. ^ "Orbost centre man takes Trood award". Gippsland Times. 7 September 1953. p. 5.
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