Charlie Stewart (Australian rules footballer born 1939)

Charlie Stewart
Personal information
Date of birth	19 March 1939 (1939-03-19) (age 72)
Height/Weight	178 cm / 75 kg
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1957 1960 1961 ?–1966 1967–?	Essendon Lemnos Footscray Kyabram Stanhope	0 20 (4)
Coaching career3
Years	Club	Games (W–L–D)
?–1966 1967–?	Kyabram Stanhope
1 Playing statistics to end of season .

Charlie Stewart (born 19 March 1939) was an Australian rules football player and coach. He is most notable for playing for Footscray in the Victorian Football League. Stewart was of Indigenous Australian descent.^[1]

Playing career

Stewart played reserve grade for Essendon in 1957 before a stint with Lemnos.^[2]

In April 1961 Stewart was cleared by Essendon to Footscray.^[2] He played 20 matches in the 1961 VFL season. He was the reserve player in the Footscray team that lost the 1961 VFL Grand Final. He was released by Footscray in April 1962 for turning up late to preseason training.^[3]

Coaching career

Stewart was playing coach of Victorian country team Kyabram until the end of the 1966 season.^[4] For the 1967 season he moved to Stanhope where he continued as a playing coach.^[5][6]

References

1. ^ "Past Indigenous Players in the AFL". Australian Football League. http://www.afl.com.au/past%20players/tabid/14339/default.aspx. Retrieved 9 April 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Charlie Stewart in Footscray side". The Age (Google News Archive). 15 April 1961. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19610415&id=-qQUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s7EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3757,2056823. Retrieved 9 April 2010. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ Hobbs, Greg (5 April 1962). "Stewart Discard In Surprise At Footscray". The Age (Google News Archive). http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=jR0RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yMUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6416,589734. Retrieved 9 April 2010. 
4. ^ Beames, Percy (17 November 1966). "Wadham coach at Kyabram". The Age (Google News Archive). http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=EwkRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aJMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3642,3145399. Retrieved 9 April 2010. 
5. ^ "Coach will play against former team". The Age (Google News Archive). 11 August 1967. http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=BFcQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YJMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4754,1944580. Retrieved 9 April 2010. 
6. ^ "Stanhope to break hoodoo". The Age (Google News Archive). 2 June 1967. http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=ztoQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6006,286704. Retrieved 9 April 2010. 

External links

• Charlie Stewart's statistics from AFL Tables

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Name	Stewart, Charlie
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Date of birth	19 March 1939
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