Neil Sachse

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Neil Sachse (born 3 January 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL

[edit] Footscray career

Originally recruited from SANFL club North Adelaide in 1975, Sachse played 2 games and kicked 1 goal for the Footscray Football Club.

In his second match for Footscray, Sachse was left a quadriplegic after an accidental collision with Fitzroy player, Kevin O'Keeffe in the 1975 Round 2 match at the Western Oval.

[edit] The Neil Sachse Foundation

In 1994, Neil Sachse and Dawn Ferrett founded an organisation to raise funds for research into the treatment of spinal cord injury. Originally known as the Spinal Research Fund of Australia Incorporated, it was renamed the Neil Sachse Foundation.

Since 1994, it has raised over $2 million which has funded a research project at Flinders University that proved that nerve fibres in the spine can regenerate past the site of the injury and return some function.

[edit] External links

• AFL Statistics: Neil Sachse
• Jake Niall, "The one", (The Age, Real Footy, 28 May 2005)
• The Neil Sachse Foundation Website