Football legend Syd Jackson will be immortalised with a bronze statue at the home of his original club, announced this week.

Before carving out a Hall of Fame career at East Perth, and later taking his talents to Carlton in the VFL, Jackson's career began at the South Bunbury Football Club.

The acknowledgement to a pioneering legacy is set to be erected at the newly-developed Hands Oval.

Speaking at the announcement on Tuesday, an "honoured" Jackson said he was surprised by the "tremendous" news.

"It still sort of feels like home," he said.

A Stolen Generations survivor, in 1961, at 17-years of age, Jackson claimed his first of consecutive Hayward medals as the South West Football League's best-and-fairest.

He remains the youngest player ever to do so, and in a "full on" era of country football, SWFL president Barry Tate told National Indigenous Times.

"At the Roelands Native Mission, we only had one football and about fifty kids trying to get a kick so you had to be pretty good to get a kick in that group there," Jackson told the ABC.

He'd take his talents a couple of hours north to East Perth in the WAFL the following year, playing 104 games and collecting a club best and fairest at the Royals before a move to the Blues for the 1967 season.

136 senior games across eight years for Carlton followed, kicking a goal in their 1970 Grand Final win over Collingwood in front of 120,0000-plus in the stands, one week after a dazzling six-goal performance in the preliminary final against St Kilda.

He lifted a second VFL premiership trophy in 1972.

Placing his mark on all leading competitions across the country, Jackson also had a stint with Glenelg in the SANFL.

"We're thrilled to bits," Tate said of the chance to recognise a "true gentleman" and "perfect choice" after a 12 month process ahead of the announcement.

Recent developments at Hands Oval has allowed the statue to stand looking over the pocket of the ground.

"We're pretty proud, actually, to recognise what he's done, in his era. It's huge," Tate told National Indigenous Times.

"He'll be more recognised now, when this does happen, and people will look up to him and realise what he's done and what he's achieved," Tate said, adding Jackson "deserves everything".

Tate noted that Indigenous players in Jackson's playing era faced barriers in football.

South Bunbury Football Club general manager Andrew Roberts said Jackson remains a "trailblazer for Indigenous Australians in the sport" now "immortalised" at the oval.

"He's a role model for our community, a role model for the senior men in our community and we all look to him for that leadership," Karim Khan from the local Gnaala Karla Boodja Aboriginal Corporation said at the announcement.

Bunbury Mayor Jaysen Miguel told National Indigenous Times the City Council were proud to support the initiative, and "I'm honoured to acknowledge not only the traditional owners of the land, but someone as inspirational and most deserving in Syd Jackson" at the newly-developed ground.

As for how he'll be remembered in bronze, Jackson couldn't separate away from allegiances in the east.

"It will be a screamer. But make sure it's over one of the Collingwood blokes," he said.

In 2005 Jackson was named in football's Indigenous Team of the Century.

He was inducted into the WA Football Hall of Fame 10 years later.