Charlie Challenger | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Charles Thomas Challenger | ||
Date of birth | 9 December 1917 | ||
Place of birth | Fremantle, Western Australia | ||
Date of death | 28 November 1996 | (aged 78)||
Place of death | Fairfield, Victoria | ||
Original team(s) | Brunswick | ||
Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1938-1940 | Brunswick (VFA) | 39 (3) | |
1940 | Essendon (VFL) | 2 (0) | |
1940-1941 | Brunswick (VFA) | 27 (6) | |
1946-1947 | Brunswick (VFA) | 16 (4) | |
Total | 84 (13) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1947. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Charles Thomas Challenger (9 December 1917 – 28 November 1996) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). [1]
He married Margaret Ellen Donohue in 1960.
In April 1937, he was cleared from Plenty Rovers in the Diamond Valley Football League to the Brunswick Second XVIII. [2] [3] Although not part of the regular home-and-away VFA season, Challenger played a match with the Brunswick First XVIII, in which he was declared Brunswick's "most effective player", against the Ballarat Imperial Football Club in September 1937. [4]
He played his first senior VFA home-and-away match for Brunswick, against Coburg, on 16 April 1938; [5] and, at the end of his first senior season, he was declared the club's "most improved player". [6]
He played in two VFA Grand finals:
On 21 March 1940 he trained for the first time with Essendon. [11] He was cleared to Essendon in April 1940. [12] [13]
He only played in two First XVIII games for Essendon, both on the half-forward flank: against Fitzroy on 18 May 1940, [14] and against Hawthorn on 25 May 1940. [15]
He was cleared back to Brunswick from Essendon in July 1940, [16] and played his first senior match in his second time at Brunswick, in the back-pocket, against Coburg on 6 July 1940. [17]
He served in the Australian Army during World War II. [18] [19]