Charlie Wells
| Charlie Wells | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Charles Wells | ||
| Date of birth | 13 April 1892 | ||
| Place of birth | Richmond, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 19 October 1929 (aged 37) | ||
| Place of death | Burnley, Victoria | ||
| Original team(s) | Port Melbourne Juniors | ||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||
| Position(s) | half-back flank | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1912 | Richmond (VFL) | 5 (5) | |
| 1913–1914 | Fitzroy (VFL) | 15 (6) | |
| 1915, 1918 | Northcote (VFA) | 20 (4) | |
| Total | 40 (15) | ||
|
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1918. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Charles Wells (13 April 1892 – 19 October 1929) was an Australian rules football player at the Richmond Football Club and the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Family
[edit]The son of William Wells, and Caroline Wells, née Blake, Charles Wells was born in Richmond, Victoria on 13 April 1892.
He married Fanny Ellen Craven (1892–1971) in 1915.[1] Their son, William Charles Richard "Billy" Wells (1916–1984) also played with Richmond.[2]
Football
[edit]Richmond (VFL)
[edit]Wells made his debut for Richmond against St Kilda in Round 1 of the 1912 VFL season, at the Junction Oval.[3]
Fitzroy (VFL)
[edit]Cleared from Richmond to Fitzroy on 16 April 1913,[4] he played 15 games, and kicked 6 goals, over two seasons (1913 and 1914), becoming a premiership player for Fitzroy in the 1913 VFL Grand Final, under the captaincy of Bill Walker (the coach was Percy Parratt).
Northcote (VFA)
[edit]On 24 April 1915, Wells was cleared from Fitzroy to Northcote in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).[5] He played in all of Northcote's thirteen matches in 1915.[6]
The 1915 VFA competition was shortened to only 13 matches due to World War I (the last home-and-away round was on 17 July 1915). There was no VFA competition at all in 1916 and 1917. A truncated competition was conducted in 1918, with only six teams involved (including Northcote) and only 10 home-and-away matches before the finals. Wells played in seven of those 1918 matches.
Death
[edit]He died at his home in Burnley, Victoria on 19 October 1929.[7]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Fanny re-msrried in 1943: to David Gladstone Bishop.
- ^ Note that, in his profile of Billy Wells, Hogan (1996), pp.243-244 has mistakenly included information (including date of birth and nickname) pertinent to Bill Wells, an entirely different individual.
- ^ "W to Z". Brisbane Lions. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ^ Other Permits, The Argus, (Thursday, 17 April 1913), p.6.
- ^ Football: Permits to Players, The Argus, (Thursday, 22 April 1915), p.4.
- ^ Note that the list at "The VFA Project", which shows 12 matches, has omitted his appearance in the drawn match against Brighton on 15 May 1915 (see: A Drawn Game: Northcote and Brighton, The Argus, (Monday, 17 May 1915), p.13).
- ^ Deaths: Wells, The Age, (Monday, 21 October 1929), p.1.
References
[edit]- Hogan P, The Tigers of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
- The Richmond Football Team, The Leader, (Saturday, 25 May 1912), p.31.
External links
[edit]- Charlie Wells's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Charlie Wells at AustralianFootball.com
- Charles "Chiner" Wells, at The VFA Project.
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