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List Of Carlton Football Club Captains
This is a list of all captains of the Carlton Football Club, an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and AFL Women's. VFL/AFL AFL Women's References Carlton Football Club Honour Board {{DEFAULTSORT:Carlton Football Club captains Carlton Captains Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ... Melbourne sport-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Carlton quickly became a dominant club in early Australian rules football competitions, and was a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning the inaugural premiership in 1877. In 1896, Carlton joined the breakaway Victorian Football League (since renamed the AFL), and alongside rivals , and , is regarded as one of the league's historical "Big Four" clubs, having won sixteen VFL/AFL premierships, equal with Essendon as the most of any AFL club. Carlton's headquarters and training facilities are located in Carlton North at Princes Park, its traditional home ground, and it currently plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In 2017, Carlton fielded a team in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurie Beasy
Maurie Beasy (14 March 1896 – 28 April 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). Notes External links * *Maurie Beasy's profileat Blueseum 1896 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Carlton Football Club players 1979 deaths {{AFL-bio-1896-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Comben
Bruce Comben (25 October 1930 – 15 December 2002) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Comben made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in the Round 1 of the 1950 season. He retired from the game at the end of the 1961 season. During his time at the club, he was Captain from 1958 to 1960, and won Best and Fairest in both 1957 and 1958. He was inducted into the Carlton Hall of Fame in 1989. Bruce died in 2002. He owned supermarkets in the Laverton and Werribee area, when they were named SSW. However, the Werribee branch closed and the Laverton store became Comben's IGA. Recently, the Laverton store has been sold and will no longer be called Comben's IGA. Bruce was a two time best and fairest winner for the Carlton Football Club and was named as back pocket In the sport of Australian rules football, each of the eighteen players in a team is assigned to a particular named position on the field of play. These positions describe both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Hands
Ken Hands (26 October 1926 – 22 December 2017) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). On the death of teammate Alex Way on 7 November 2014, Hands became the last surviving member of Carlton's 1945 Premiership team, and was also the last surviving member of their 1947 Premiership team. On 22 December 2017, Hands died at the age of 91. References Ken HandsaBlueseum* *Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers''. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing. 1926 births 2017 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club Premiership players Carlton Football Club coaches John Nicholls M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ern Henfry
Ernest Edgar "Ern" Henfry (24 July 1921 – 14 January 2007) was an Australian rules footballer who played for in the West Australian Football League, Western Australian National Football League (WANFL) and in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). He later served as coach of Perth, and also coached Western Australia Australian rules football team, Western Australia, having previously played at state level for both WA and Victoria Australian rules football team, Victoria. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2014. Career Henfry made his senior debut for Perth during the 1937 WANFL season, 1937 season, aged 16 years and 49 days, with only seven other players known to have debuted at a younger age. He played twice at state level during the 1939 WANFL season, 1939 season, at the age of 17, and then finished second to Haydn Bunton, Sr., Haydn Bunton in the 1941 Sandover Medal. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Chitty
Robert Main-Warring Chitty (4 July 1916 – 4 April 1985) was an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Alan Peter Chitty (1884-1981), and Hannah Evelyne Chitty (1887-1974), née Wilson, "Robert Mainwaring Chitty" was born at Corryong, Corryong, Victoria on 4 July 1916. He married Hazel Irene Leggo (1907-1976) on 26 April 1941. Chitty's brother Peter Chitty, Peter played VFL football for St Kilda Football Club, St Kilda. Later, as a prisoner of War in Changi Prison, Peter was awarded a "Brownlow Medal" for being the Best and Fairest player in the Changi Football League. He is the great uncle of Mona Ethel Byron. (1924-2019) Football Chitty played much of his junior and amateur football for his home town of Cudgewa Football Netball Club, Cudgewa. Leaving the country for the city, Chitty played for Sunshine in the Victorian Sub-Districts before being signed by Carlton. Chitty made his debut for the Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Atkinson (footballer, Born 1913)
Robert Charles Atkinson (29 October 1913 – 25 December 2006) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) and Victorian Football League (VFL). Family Atkinson's father Percy played for Norwood Football Club in the South Australian competition, while his brother Ted played for North Melbourne Football Club and his son John played with Fitzroy Football Club. Football A defender, Atkinson made his senior football debut for the Coburg Football Club in the VFA in 1935. He became a star player at the club over the following seven years, and was a member of the club's losing 1941 grand final team. When the VFA went into recess, Atkinson crossed to the Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Mel ... on a wartime permit, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighton Diggins
Brighton John Diggins (born Bryton John Diggins, 26 December 1906 – 14 July 1971) was an Australian rules footballer in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Arthur Oswald Diggins (1878–1933) and Lucy Dolphin "Dolly" Diggins (1886–1945), née Mountain, Diggins was born on 26 December 1906. He married Amanda Eileen Murphy in 1928. He died on 14 July 1971. Subiaco Diggins began his senior football career at the Subiaco Football Club in the West Australian Football League in 1927. A key position player and ruckman, Diggins was a strong mark and a fast runner, and by 1930, he was considered to be the finest key position player in Australia. He played with Subiaco from 1927 to 1931, and played 88 matches for the Lions. South Melbourne In 1932, during the Great Depression, Diggins moved to Victoria to play for the South Melbourne Football Club in the VFL. Diggins was one of several Subiaco players who joined South M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ansell Clarke
Edward Augustus "Ansell" Clarke (12 August 1907 – 15 October 2002) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. Football Clarke made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in Round 7 of the 1929 season. He was appointed captain in 1937. He was the senior coach at the St Kilda Football Club from 1938 to 1940 with 28 wins from 55 matches. He was captain-coach A player-coach (also playing coach, captain-coach, or player-manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. A player-coach may be a head coach or an assistant coach. They may make changes to the sq ... for 1938 and 1939, until he retired as a player in May 1940. He later returned as a player for one final match in July 1940. Notes External links * * Ansell ClarkeaBlueseum 1907 births 2002 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents Carlton Football Club players S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Francis
James Arthur Francis (12 December 1910 – 16 November 2004) was an Australian rules footballer and coach in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Henry Walter Francis (1883–1964) and Sarah Victoria Francis, nee Jackson (1884–1929), James Arthur Francis was born in Hawthorn on 12 December 1910. His brothers John and Syd also played VFL football, both for Hawthorn. In 1937, James Francis married Shirley Louise King at St. Stephens Church of England in Richmond. Football Hawthorn After playing 61 games for Hawthorn, Francis left the Hawks in controversial circumstances, due to a disagreement with the club and his family's sports store. Francis wanted the club to order their uniforms through his store, but when Hawthorn secretary Sam Ramsay refused, he asked for a clearance to Carlton. Carlton Francis made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in round 9 of the 1934 season. He retired as a player at the end of the 1943 season having played 162 games a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Davey (footballer)
Charlie Davey (11 May 1908 – 14 August 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Recruited from the Chelsea Football Club, Davey made his debut for the Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition. Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Mel ... in Round 18 of the 1927 season. In his first VFL match, against St Kilda, on 10 September 1927, playing at centre half-forward, he kicked six goals. He had been a last minute inclusion in the senior team (due to injuries and suspensions to selected players), and he had not been in the selected team announced on the Saturday morning. According to ''The Argus'', ::" he new manDavey showed great promise. Davey is a tall young player, who marks splendidly, and should be a success on the forward line, his six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurie Johnson
Maurice Richard 'Mocha' Johnson (15 January 1907 – 30 May 2000) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. Johnson made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in Round 5 of the 1927 season. He had a falling-out with coach Frank Maher after six rounds of the 1936 season, which resulted in him leaving Carlton to join South Melbourne. In 1938, Johnson captain-coached Launceston to both the NTFA and Tasmanian State Premiership The Tasmanian State Premiership was an Australian rules football tournament which was contested at the conclusion of the season, initially between the reigning Tasmanian Football League (TFL/TANFL) and Northern Tasmanian Football Association (18 ...s. Johnson died in May 2000. References External links * Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Carlton Football Club players Sydney Swans players Brunswick Football Club players Launceston Football Club players Launc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
