Russell Ebert

Russell Frank Ebert lived from 22 June 1949 to 5 November 2021 and was an Australian rules footballer and coach, considered one of the greatest players in the history of the game. He is the only player to have won four Magarey Medals, the best and fairest award of the South Australian National Football League, and he is widely regarded as the greatest player in the history of the Port Adelaide Football Club, where he played 367 premiership games. He also played 25 games for North Melbourne in the 1979 VFL season. He was an inaugural inductee in the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and was posthumously elevated to Legend status in June 2022, and he is one of four footballers with a statue at Adelaide Oval.