fullname heightweight death_date death_place years birth_place clubs statsend originalteam birth_date article_title name
edwin john alley 173 ; kg & nbsp ; cm / 71 & nbsp 18 july 1949 canterbury , victoria 1902-1903 st arnaud , victoria south melbourne 1903 footscray juniors 30 july 1881 ted alley
 ted alley
ted alley

edwin john `` ted '' alley -lrb- 30 july 1881 - 18 july 1949 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played with south melbourne in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- .
some afl sources list his name as ned alley .
alley appeared in 15 of south melbourne 17 games in the 1902 vfl season .
he played just once the following year .
in 1907 , with regular captain paddy noonan unavailable , alley captained williamstown to an 18 point grand final victory over west melbourne , in the victorian football association .
this gave him the distinction of being williamstown 's first ever premiership captain .
alley , who made his living as an engineer , served overseas with the 3rd pioneer battalion during world war i .
he took part in london 's `` pioneer exhibition game '' , which was played in 1916 .
in 1920 he was appointed captain-coach of hawthorn when the club was in the victorian football association .
he stood down as captain midway through his only season at the club .
