Charlie Dummett | |
Fullname: | Herbert Charles Dummett |
Birth Date: | 1891 1, df=y |
Birth Place: | Brunswick, Victoria |
Death Place: | Kew, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Rose of Northcote |
Statsend: | 1911 |
Years1: | 1909, 1911 |
Club1: | Collingwood |
Games Goals1: | 4 (3) |
Herbert Charles Dummett (9 January 1891 – 4 May 1976)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The son of Henry Peter James Dummett (1857–1921),[2] and Jessie Adeline Dummett (1856–1928), née Rouse,[3] Charlie Dummett was born in Brunswick on 9 January 1891.
He was the brother of Collingwood footballer Alf Dummett, and of Victorian cricketer Arthur Dummett (1900–1968).[4]
He married Amy Dorothy Bertram (1895–1974) in 1916.[5]
Dummett made three appearances for Collingwood in the 1909 VFL season, as an 18-year-old.[6] [7] He did not play at all in 1910, a Collingwood premiership season;[6] and in 1911 he played just one senior game.[6]
Although his brother, Alf Dummett, was also at Collingwood at that time, they never played together.[8]
From 1927 to 1945, Dummett goal umpired 264 VFL matches, the most ever by a former player. He officiated in the 1933 and 1943 VFL Grand Finals.[9]
He died on 4 May 1976.[10]