| Charlie Sutton | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Charles Alfred George Sutton | ||
| Date of birth | (1924-04-03)3 April 1924 | ||
| Place of birth | Rushworth, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 5 June 2012(2012-06-05) (aged 88) | ||
| Place of death | Footscray, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Spotswood Citizens | ||
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Weight | 87 kg (192 lb) | ||
| 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) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1956. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1968. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Sources:AFL Tables,AustralianFootball.com | |||
Charlie Sutton (3 April 1924 – 5 June 2012) was anAustralian rules footballer who representedFootscray in theVictorian Football League (VFL). He captained the Bulldogs to their first VFL premiership in1954.
Recruited fromSpotswood, 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 aback pocket player that he made his name. In 1950, he finished equal third in theBrownlow 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 from1951 to1955.
After his retirement as a player, Sutton coached Footscray from1956 until 9 July1957, when he was dismissed and replaced byTed Whitten. Sutton later returned to coach Footscray in1967 (replacing Ted Whitten) and1968 (after which he resigned having decided that the ever-increasing demands of coaching clashed far too much with his business of running a hotel atYarraville).
In1978 Sutton took over the position of President of the Footscray Football Club whenDick Collinson resigned.[2]
He has theWestern Bulldogsbest and fairest award, theCharles Sutton Medal, named in his honour.
In1996 Sutton was inducted into theAustralian Football Hall of Fame. Sutton died in 2012 at the age of 88.[3]
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