Cairo Dixon

Cairo Dixon (4 February 1911 – 19 March 1985) was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Cairo Dixon
Personal information
Full name Cairo Merlyn David Dixon
Date of birth (1911-02-04)4 February 1911
Date of death 19 March 1985(1985-03-19) (aged 74)
Original team(s) Coburg
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1935–36 North Melbourne 18 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1936.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Dixon won Coburg's best and fairest award in 1936.[2]

Dixon coached Kew Football Club to runners up against South Districts in the Melbourne Sub-Districts Football League in 1939, played on the MCG.[3][4]

Notes
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. "Dixon back at Coburg". Trove Newspapers. The Herald. 9 April 1938. p. 20. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  3. "South Districts in final on MCG". Trove Newspapers. Record. 16 September 1939. p. 1. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  4. "1939 - Premiership won by South Districts". Trove Newspapers. Record. 23 September 1939. p. 4. Retrieved 15 November 2020.


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