Charlie Sutton
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| Personal information | |
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| Birth | April 3, 1924, |
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| Height and weight | 169 cm (5' 6½"), 87 kg |
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| Debut | 1942, Footscray vs. Melbourne, at Windy Hill |
| Team(s) | Footscray (1942-1956)
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| Team(s) | Footscray 1951-1957, 1967-1968 (162 games, 81 wins, 79 losses, 2 draws), premiership 1954. |
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* 3rd Brownlow Medal 1950
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Charlie Sutton (born April 3, 1924) is a former Australian rules footballer in the (then) 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 only premiership, in 1954.
A tough, nuggety[1] 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, he coached the team from 1956 until July 9, 1957, when he was unceremoniously dismissed and replaced by Ted Whitten. He later coached the team 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).
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.
[edit] References
- 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
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