Charlie Sutton
| Charlie Sutton | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Charles Sutton | ||
| Date of birth | 3 April 1924 | ||
| Date of death | 5 June 2012 (aged 88) | ||
| Original team(s) | Spotswood Citizens | ||
| Height / weight | 169cm / 87kg | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1942–1956 | Footscray | 173 (65) | |
| Representative team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| Victoria | 18 (12) | ||
| Coaching career3 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1951–1957 1967–1968 Total |
Footscray Footscray |
123 (72–50–2) 38 (9–29–0) 162 (81–79–2) | |
|
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1956. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1968. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
| |||
Charlie Sutton (3 April 1924 – 5 June 2012) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Although he served the club for many years as coach and committee man, he is perhaps best known for captaining his team, Footscray to their 1st premiership in premiership, in 1954.
A tough, nuggety Bulldog player who embodied the club's fighting spirit, Sutton played as a rover and half forward, but it was as a back pocket player that he made his name.
He was captain-coach of the team from 1951 to 1955.
After his retirement as a player, Sutton coached Footscray from 1956 until 9 July 1957, when he was unceremoniously dismissed and replaced by Ted Whitten. Sutton later returned to coach Footscray in 1967 (replacing Ted Whitten) and 1968 (after which he resigned having decided that the ever-increasing demands of coaching clashed far too much with his business of running a hotel at Yarraville).
In 1978 Sutton took over the position of President of the Footscray Football Club when Dick Collinson resigned.[1]
He has the Western Bulldogs best and fairest award, the Charles Sutton Medal, named in his honour.
In 1996 Sutton was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Sutton died in 2012 at the age of 88.[2]
References
- ↑ Sheahan, Michael (30 August 1978). "Collinson quits Dogs". The Age. p. 30. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ↑ Blake, Martin (5 June 2012). "Bulldogs legend Charlie Sutton dies". The Age. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0
- Ross, J. (ed), The Australian Football Hall of Fame, HarperCollinsPublishers, (Pymble), 1999. ISBN 0-7322-6426-X
External links
- "AFL: Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 3 October 2009.
- Charlie Sutton's statistics from AFL Tables
- "Full Points Footy Biography: Charlie Sutton". Archived from the original on 14 May 2011.