- Charlie Sutton
-
Charlie Sutton 
Personal information Full name Charles Sutton Date of birth 3 April 1924 Original team Spotswood Citizens Height/Weight 169cm / 87kg 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
1967–1968
TotalFootscray
Footscray123 (72–50–2)
38 (9–29–0)
162 (81–79–2)1 Playing statistics to end of 1956 season .3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1968.Career highlights Charlie Sutton (born 3 April 1924) is a former Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League (VFL).
Although he served the club for many years as coach and committee man, he is perhaps best known for captaining his team, Footscray to their only premiership, in 1954.
A tough, nuggety [1] Bulldog player who embodied the club's fighting spirit, Sutton played as a rover and half forward, but it was as a back pocket player that he made his name.
He was captain-coach of the team from 1951 to 1955.
After his retirement as a player, he coached the team from 1956 until 9 July 1957, when he was unceremoniously dismissed and replaced by Ted Whitten. He later coached the team in 1967 (replacing Ted Whitten) and 1968 (after which he resigned having decided that the ever-increasing demands of coaching clashed far too much with his business of running a hotel at Yarraville).
He has the Western Bulldogs Best and Fairest award, the Charles Sutton Medal, named in his honour.
In 1996 Sutton was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
References
- Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0
- Ross, J. (ed), The Australian Football Hall of Fame, HarperCollinsPublishers, (Pymble), 1999. ISBN 0-7322-6426-X
External links
Footscray Football Club 1954 VFL Premiers Footscray 15.12 (102) defeated Melbourne 7.9 (51), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Coach: Sutton Captains of the Footscray Football Club/Western Bulldogs 1925: McCarthy • 1926: McCarthy/Hopkins • 1927–1928: Scanlan • 1929–1930: Hopkins • 1931–1932: Cubbins • 1933: McAlpine • 1934: Cubbins/Morrison • 1935: Morrison • 1936: Penberthy • 1937: Dockendorff/Morrison • 1938–1939: Evans • 1940–1942: Ware • 1943–1946: Olliver • 1947: Hickey • 1948–1950: Olliver • 1951–1955: Sutton • 1956: Sutton/Donald • 1957: Stevens/Whitten • 1958–1969: Whitten • 1970: Whitten/Magee • 1971–1972: Dempsey • 1973: Thorpe • 1974–1976: Sandilands • 1977–1978: Dempsey • 1979–1981: Jennings • 1982: Templeton • 1983–1985: Edmond • 1986–1988: Kennedy • 1989: Wallis • 1990–1993: Hawkins • 1994–2000: Wynd • 2001–2004: Grant • 2005–2006: Darcy • 2007–2010: Johnson • 2011: BoydCoaches of the Footscray Football Club/Western Bulldogs 1925: McCarthy • 1926: Saunders • 1926: Cassidy • 1927–1928: Scanlan • 1929: Eason • 1930: Hopkins • 1931–1933: Cubbins • 1934–1935: Morrison • 1935–1937: Coventry • 1937–1940: Kelly • 1941–1942: Ware • 1943–1946: Olliver • 1947: Crowe • 1948–1950: Olliver • 1951–1957: Sutton • 1951: McLaren • 1952; 1953: Donald • 1957–1966: Whitten • 1959; 1960: Ryan • 1961; 1962; 1964; 1966: Findlay • 1967–1968: Sutton • 1969–1971: Whitten • 1972–1975: Rose • 1976–1978: Goggin • 1978–1979: McKenzie • 1980–1982: Hart • 1981: Goode • 1982–1983: Hampshire • 1984–1989: Malthouse • 1990–1994: Wheeler • 1994–1996: Joyce • 1996–2002: Wallace • 2002–2004: Rohde • 2005–2011: Eade • 2011: Williams • 2012–: McCartneyItalics denote caretaker coachCharles Sutton Medal • Western Bulldogs Best and Fairest Winners 1927: McAlpine • 1928: Outen • 1929: Russ • 1930: McAlpine • 1931: Hopkins • 1932: McAlpine • 1933: Morrison • 1934: Ware • 1935: Bennett • 1936: Morrison • 1937: Ware • 1938: Ware • 1939: Hickey • 1940: Ware • 1941: Ware/Olliver • 1942: Ellis • 1943: A. Collins • 1944: Olliver • 1945: Hickey • 1946: Ryan • 1947: Ryan • 1948: Hickey • 1949: Donald • 1950: Sutton • 1951: J. Collins • 1952: J. Collins • 1953: Stevens • 1954: Whitten • 1955: Box • 1956: Ross • 1957: Whitten • 1958: Whitten • 1959: Whitten • 1960: Schultz • 1961: Whitten • 1962: Schultz • 1963: Walker • 1964: Schultz • 1965: Schultz • 1966: Schultz • 1967: Jillard • 1968: Thorpe • 1969: Bisset • 1970: Dempsey • 1971: Thorpe • 1972: Welsh • 1973: Dempsey • 1974: Dempsey • 1975: Dempsey • 1976: Dempsey • 1977: Dempsey • 1978: Templeton • 1979: Dunstan • 1980: Templeton • 1981: Dunstan • 1982: Dunstan • 1983: Royal • 1984: Purser • 1985: Hawkins • 1986: Hardie • 1987: McGuinness • 1988: Wallace • 1989: Wallace • 1990: Foster • 1991: Liberatore • 1992: Wynd • 1993: Cameron • 1994: Grant • 1995: West • 1996: Grant/Romero • 1997: West • 1998: West • 1999: Johnson • 2000: West • 2001: Darcy • 2002: Johnson • 2003: West • 2004: West • 2005: West • 2006: Johnson • 2007: Harris • 2008: Cross • 2009: Boyd • 2010: Griffen • 2011: BoydWestern Bulldogs • Leading Goalkickers 1925: Hopkins • 1926: Chapple/Hopkins • 1927: Chapple • 1928: Morrison • 1929: Morrison • 1930: Morrison • 1931: Morrison • 1932: Dayman • 1933: Rait • 1934: Morrison • 1935: Jack Ryan • 1936: Olliver • 1937: Olliver • 1938: Luke • 1939: Page • 1940: Page • 1941: A. Collins • 1942: Ware • 1943: A. Collins • 1944: Wood • 1945: Joe Ryan • 1946: Wood • 1947: Wood • 1948: Wood • 1949: Olliver • 1950: Wood • 1951: Sutton/Linton • 1952: Duffy • 1953: J. Collins • 1954: J. Collins • 1955: J. Collins • 1956: Cross • 1957: J. Collins • 1958: J. Collins • 1959: Baxter • 1960: Baxter • 1961: Whitten • 1962: Whitten • 1963: Bisset/Hobbs • 1964: Bisset/Whitten • 1965: Hobbs • 1966: Jackman • 1967: Bisset • 1968: Whitten • 1969: Bisset • 1970: Bisset • 1971: Quinlan • 1972: Sandilands • 1973: Sandilands • 1974: Sandilands • 1975: Sandilands • 1976: Templeton • 1977: Templeton • 1978: Templeton • 1979: Templeton • 1980: Templeton • 1981: Edmond/Loveless • 1982: Beasley • 1983: Beasley • 1984: Beasley • 1985: Beasley • 1986: Beasley • 1987: Beasley • 1988: Beasley • 1989: Campbell • 1990: Grant • 1991: Hawkins • 1992: Del-Re • 1993: Del-Re • 1994: Grant • 1995: Osborne • 1996: Watts • 1997: Minton-Connell • 1998: Hudson • 1999: Hudson • 2000: Smith • 2001: Johnson • 2002: Brown • 2003: Brown • 2004: Darcy/Rawlings • 2005: Johnson • 2006: Johnson • 2007: Johnson • 2008: Johnson • 2009: Akermanis • 2010: Hall • 2011: HallCategories:- Western Bulldogs players
- Australian rules footballers from Victoria
- Western Bulldogs coaches
- Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees
- Charles Sutton Medal winners
- 1924 births
- Living people
- Australian rules biography, pre-1940 birth stubs
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
