Charlie Pearson
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Charlie Pearson was an 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 who played with Essendon
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 during the 1880s. He is credited as being one of the first people to attempt high flying marks
Specky
A spectacular mark is a term for a type of mark in Australian rules football...

 where a player jumps on the back of another in order to take a mark.http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/p-q.htm#Charles%20Pearson%20(Essendon)

Due to his work at a rural sheep station in Queensland he only played sporadically for Essendon but in 1886 was named as the Champion of the Colony
Champion Of The Colony
The Champion of the Colony award refers to a list that was most likely compiled in the late 1940s by Australian football historian C.C. Mullen for the publications "Mullen's Footballers' Australian Almanac 1950", and 1951, plus a History of Australian rules football he wrote in about 1958...

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