Charlie Challenger
Personal information
Full name Charles Thomas Challenger
Date of birth (1917-12-09)9 December 1917
Place of birth Fremantle, Western Australia
Date of death 28 November 1996(1996-11-28) (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]

Family

He married Margaret Ellen Donohue in 1960.

Football

Brunswick (VFA)

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:

Essendon (VFL)

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]

Brunswick (VFA)

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]

Military service

He served in the Australian Army during World War II.[18][19]

Notes

References

  • World War Two Nominal Roll: Private Charles Thomas Challenger (VXZ137813), Department of Veterans' Affairs.
  • B883, VXZ137813: World War Two Service Record: Private Charles Thomas Challenger (VXZ137813), National Archives of Australia.
  • Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  • Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8
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