William James Pearson (11 June 1922 – 6 December 2010) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s.
[1] Pearson served in the Australian Army during World War II, seeing active duty as an AIF gun layer in the New Guinea jungle.
[2] Pearson was recruited from La Mascotte and in just his third league game kicked four goals to help his club defeat Carlton by 100 points.
A knee injury in 1947 ended Pearson's career when a series of operations, five in total, weren't enough to allow him to play again.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1920s is a stub.