Charlie Colgan Explained

Charlie Colgan
Fullname:Charles Edward Colgan
Birth Date:9 February 1878
Death Place:South Melbourne, Victoria
Originalteam:South Park
Statsend:1901
Years1:1898–1901
Games Goals1:37 (43)
Careerhighlights:

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

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

South Melbourne (VFL)

Originally with the West Melbourne football club,[9] he was recruited from the local South Park Football Club on the basis of his performance in a (South Park) pre-season match.[10] [11] Colgan made his debut for South Melbourne against Carlton, at Princes Park, on 14 May 1898.

1899 team of "champions"

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.[12]

South Melbourne Juniors (VJFA)

In May 1901 he was cleared from South Melbourne to South Melbourne Juniors in the Victorian Junior Football Association.[13] 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.[14]

Death

He died of pneumonia at his residence in South Melbourne on 25 July 1935.[15] [10]

References

Notes and References

  1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 164.
  2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197389840 Deaths: Colgan, The Age, (Wednesday, 8 November 1911), p. 1.
  3. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriages Registration no.1740/1864.
  4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196197244 Deaths: Colgan, The Age, (Wednesday, 26 April 1911), p. 1.
  5. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Births Registration no.8798/1878.
  6. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriages Registration no.2780/1903.
  7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206889386 Deaths: Colgan, The Age, (Saturday, 31 July 1948), p.2.
  8. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Deaths Registration no.14528/1903.
  9. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106836809 Presentation of Prizes: West Melbourne F.C., The North Melbourne Gazette, (Friday, 13 May 1898), p. 2.
  10. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164476623 Death of "Charlie" Colgan: South's Leading Forward of the Late 90's, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 27 July 1935), p. 4.
  11. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108483873 Brevities and Comments, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 16 April 1898), p. 3.
  12. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9030781 'Old Boy', "Football: A Review of the Season", (Monday, 18 September 1899), p. 6.
  13. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190039126 Football, The Age, (Wednesday, 22 May 1901), p.5.
  14. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198590902 Junior Football Association, The Age, (Thursday, 22 June 1905), p. 8.
  15. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203988630 Deaths: Colgan, The Age, (Friday, 26 July 1935), p. 1.

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