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Charlie Colgan

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Charlie Colgan
Personal information
Full name Charles Edward Colgan
Date of birth (1878-02-09)9 February 1878
Place of birth Emerald Hill (now known as South Melbourne), Victoria
Date of death 25 July 1935(1935-07-25) (aged 57)
Place of death South Melbourne, Victoria
Original team(s) South Park
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1898–1901 South Melbourne 37 (43)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1901.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Charles Edward Colgan (9 February 1878 – 25 July 1935) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Family

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The youngest of the seven children of the tailor Patrick Colgan (1833–1911),[2] and Margaret Colgan, née Dwyer (1841–1911),[3][4] Charles Edward Colgan was born at Emerald Hill (now known as South Melbourne) on 9 February 1878.[5]

He married Mary Veronica Gilchrist (1882–1948) in 1903.[6][7] They had three children; one of whom, a daughter (Veronica Margaret), died aged 3 months.[8]

Football

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External image
image icon South Melbourne Football Team Colgan is the player standing at the extreme left of the third row.[9]

South Melbourne (VFL)

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Originally with the West Melbourne football club,[10] he was recruited from the local South Park Football Club on the basis of his performance in a (South Park) pre-season match.[11][12] Colgan made his debut for South Melbourne against Carlton, at Princes Park, on 14 May 1898.

1899 team of "champions"

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At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus, Reginald Wilmot ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:

From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — Wilmot selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season.[13]

South Melbourne Juniors (VJFA)

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In May 1901, he was cleared from South Melbourne to South Melbourne Juniors in the Victorian Junior Football Association.[14] He played with the Juniors for five seasons, and in 1905 he was selected (as vice-captain) in a combined VJFA team to play against a combined Ballarat Juniors team.[15]

Death

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He died of pneumonia at his residence in South Melbourne on 25 July 1935.[16][11]

Notes

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References

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  • 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.
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