Charlie Sutton
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| Charlie Sutton | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Charles Alfred George Sutton | ||
| Born |
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| Died |
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| Original teamTemplate:Pluralize from text | Spotswood Citizens | ||
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| 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 | Footscray | 123 (72–50–2) | |
| 1967–1968 | Footscray | 38 (9–29–0) | |
| Total | 162 (81–79–2) | ||
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Charlie Sutton (3 April 1924 – 5 June 2012) was an Australian rules footballer who represented Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He captained the Bulldogs to their first VFL premiership in 1954.
Recruited from Spotswood, Sutton was a tough, nuggety footballer who embodied the club's fighting spirit. He played as a rover and half-forward, but it was as a back pocket player that he made his name. In 1950, he finished equal third in the Brownlow Medal count and won the Con Weickhardt Trophy (as it was then known) as the Bulldogs' best and fairest player that season.[1]
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 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.[2]
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.[3]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Charlie Sutton Footscray's Best". The Age. No. 29, 757. Victoria, Australia. 11 September 1950. p. 12. Retrieved 23 January 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sheahan, Michael (30 August 1978). "Collinson quits Dogs". The Age. p. 30. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Blake, Martin (5 June 2012). "Bulldogs legend Charlie Sutton dies". The Age. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
Bibliography
- 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. Template:ISBN
- Ross, J. (ed), The Australian Football Hall of Fame, HarperCollinsPublishers, (Pymble), 1999. Template:ISBN
External links
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."AFL: Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 2 October 2009.
- Charlie Sutton's playing statistics from AFL TablesTemplate:EditAtWikidata
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Full Points Footy Biography: Charlie Sutton". Archived from the original on 14 May 2011.
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