Edwards was born in
Mount Lawley,
Western Australia and grew up in
Bayswater. He attended Hillcrest Primary School and
John Forrest Secondary College. He played football for the East Perth-Highgate Junior Football Club. He started playing colts football for
East Perth in 1977, making his senior debut in 1979 in an
Escort Cup match in Melbourne at
VFL Park. He then played three games for East Perth before being dropped back to the reserves, and a further 70 games over the next four seasons. At the end of
the 1983 season he was recruited by South Fremantle and went on to play for them for the next nine seasons. He was one of the favourites for the 1988
Sandover Medal, but came second by two votes to
David Bain. The following year he polled one less vote, but won the count by three votes from
Mark Brayshaw. He continues to play for another 4 seasons, sharing the WAFL goal-kicking award with
Kevin Caton in his last season
in 1992, although his total of 48 goals was the lowest to be leading goalkicker
since 1923. He played in two losing WAFL grand finals,
in 1989 and 1992. He played for
Western Australia on seven occasions, kicking 4 goals. ==References==