Ben Eckermann

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Ben Eckermann
Personal information
Full name	Ben Eckermann
Date of birth	(1987-03-27) 27 March 1987
Original team	Sturt (SANFL) / Port Adelaide
Draft	51st overall, 2004 Port Adelaide
Height/Weight	178cm / 79 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
2005 – 2006	Port Adelaide	4 (0)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 2011 season.

Ben Eckermann (born 12 March 1987) is an Australian rules football midfielder who played for Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL) and Sturt in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

Eckermann was selected with the 51st pick in the 2004 AFL Draft and made his AFL debut in Round Seven of the 2005 AFL season. In his fourth game Eckermann was concussed when he was bumped front-on by Adelaide Crows player Tyson Stenglein.^[1] The incident was seen as a precursor to stronger penalties for front-on contact to the head.^[2] The game would be his last ever AFL match, when he was delisted at the end of the 2006 season.^[3]

References

↑ Stenglein handed one-match ban
↑ Sheahan, Mike (June 2, 2005). "Tribunal signals end of front-on bump". Herald Sun. Archived from the original|archiveurl= requires |url= (help) on June 2, 2005. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
↑ 2006 Trading

External links

Ben Eckermann's statistics from AFL Tables

v t e 2005 AFL National Draft

First round	1. Marc Murphy (PP) 2. Dale Thomas (PP) 3. Xavier Ellis (PP) 4. Josh Kennedy 5. Scott Pendlebury 6. Beau Dowler 7. Paddy Ryder 8. Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls 9. Mitch Clark 10. Marcus Drum 11. Shaun Higgins 12. Nathan Jones 13. Shannon Hurn 14. Grant Birchall 15. Travis Varcoe 16. Richard Douglas 17. Darren Pfeiffer 18. Max Bailey 19. Courtenay Dempsey

Second round	20. Paul Bower 21. Danny Stanley 22. Beau Muston 23. Ryan Cook 24. Cleve Hughes 25. Wayde Mills 26. Garrick Ibbotson 27. Dylan Addison 28. Matt Riggio 29. Ben McKinley 30. Nick Lower 31. Trent West 32. Bernie Vince 33. Samuel Gilbert 34. Matthew Spangher 35. Stephen Owen

Third round	36. Jake Edwards 37. Jack Anthony 38. Travis Tuck (F/S) 39. Jay Neagle (F/S) 40. Travis Casserly 41. Rhan Hooper 42. Robert Warnock 43. Andrew Swallow 44. Alipate Carlile 45. Kasey Green 46. Travis Baird 47. Ryan Gamble 48. Alan Obst 49. Michael Rix 50. Sam Lonergan

Fourth round	51. Matthew Laidlaw 53. Simon Buckley 54. Kristin Thornton 55. Brett Montgomery 56. Joel Patfull 57. Michael West 58. Hugh Minson 59. Ryan Brabazon 60. Clint Bartram 61. Mathew Stokes 63. Phillip Raymond

Fifth round	66. Austin Lucy 68. Heath Neville 69. Tim Hutchison 70. Jonathan Giles 71. Justin Sweeney

Persondata
Name	Eckermann, Ben
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	12 March 1987
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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