Murray Weideman, a former great of Collingwood, was diagnosed with CTE.
Murray Weideman, the captain of Collingwood Premiership, is the fourth VFL/AFL player to be posthumously identified with a crippling neurological condition associated with head trauma.
Along with Danny Frawley, Shane Tuck, and Graham “Polly” Farmer, Weideman led the Magpies to a historic upset victory against Melbourne in the 1958 grand final. against the past two years, Weideman’s chronic traumatic encephalopathy has also been identified.The Australian Sports Brain Bank report’s results were made public by Weideman’s family on Saturday.
One day after turning 85 years old, the 180-game Magpies hero passed away in February. Weideman’s family discussed brain donation with him after observing significant personality shifts in him in the past few years.
His son Mark Weideman told News Corp., “I said, ‘Dad, we have to do this, we have to help.'”
Future developments will be better the more research can accumulate and gather data. He wholeheartedly supported this.
“It comes in late, but you do not really think about it since your life is going along relatively well for a long period.”
In February 2020, Farmer—a renowned ruckman from Western Australia who rose to fame with Geelong—became the first football player to receive a CTE diagnosis.
Tuck, a former midfield player for Richmond, was determined to have the “worst observed case” of CTE when the brain bank’s data were released in January.
