Charlie Whitely

Charlie Whitely
Personal information
Full name Charles Eric Whitely
Date of birth (1904-01-12)12 January 1904
Place of birth Albury, New South Wales
Date of death 12 September 1953(1953-09-12) (aged 49)
Place of death Yarra Junction, Victoria
Original team(s) Hume Weir (Albury)
Height / weight 173 cm / 68 kg
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1925
1926
Total		 Richmond
Hawthorn		 1 (0)
1 (1)
2 (1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1926.

Charles Eric Whitely (12 January 1904 – 12 September 1953) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Whitely joined Richmond from the Hume Weir club in Albury[2] in 1925, making his solitary appearance in the senior team in their loss to Carlton.[3] He transferred to Hawthorn for the 1926 VFL season and scored a goal on debut against St Kilda but also fractured a rib[4] and never again played a VFL match. He later transferred to Prahran in the Victorian Football Association.[5]

In 1930 he married Thelma Sedgman and they lived in Melbourne until his death in 1953.

Notes

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "HUME WEIR DEFEATS ALBURY.". Wodonga and Towong Sentinel. Vic.: National Library of Australia. 11 May 1923. p. 3.
  3. ↑ "CARLTON'S IMPROVEMENT.". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 15 June 1925. p. 16.
  4. ↑ "ST. KILDA DEFEAT HAWTHORN.". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 7 June 1926. p. 6.
  5. ↑ "PERMIT APPLICATIONS.". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 1 July 1926. p. 6.

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