Harry Chesswas Explained

Harry Chesswas
Fullname:	Harold Clark Chesswas
Birth Date:	18 June 1901
Birth Place:	Collingwood, Victoria
Death Place:	Kew, Victoria
Originalteam:	Northcote
Height:	173 cm
Weight:	72 kg
Statsend:	1931
Years1:	1922–1931
Club1:	Collingwood
Games Goals1:	154 (45)

Harold Clark "Bottles" Chesswas (18 June 1901 – 24 October 1956)^{[1] [2]} was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL.

Family

The son of George Forrester Chesswas (1858–1924),^[3] and Louisa Chesswas (1862–1903), née Freeman,^{[4] [5]} Harold Clark Chesswas was born in Collingwood, Victoria, on 18 June 1901.

He married Letitia Mary Lingham (1902–1972) in 1932.^[6]

Football

Chesswas was a utility player, who played mainly on the wing.

Death

He died at Kew, Victoria, on 24 October 1956.^[7]

References

• Sharland, W.S., "Hayes, Cheswass, and Bryant are Renowned for their Play in League Games", The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 30 August 1924), p.8.
• Football: Oakleigh Coach: H. Chesswas (Coll.) Appointed, The Argus, (Friday, 29 January 1932), p.10.

External links

• • • Harry Cheswass (sic) at The VFA Project.
• Harry Chesswas at Boyles Football Photos.
• Web site: Harry Chesswas . Collingwood Forever . 30 August 2014.

Notes and References

1. "The Chesswas family was very poor and the parents died at a young age, so young Harold collected bottles as a kid to help supplement what little income they had. That obsession with bottle collecting led to the nickname by which he was known for most of his life, apparently bestowed on him by the headmaster of the Victoria Park State School." -- Collingwood Forever.
2. "To his friends Chesswas is not known as Harold, but as "Bottles". He earned this soubriquet from the head-master of the Victoria Park State school, but he does not know why. One afternoon in school the master called him "Bottles", and after that his mates knew him by no other name." -- Sharland (1924).
3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155543093 Deaths: Chesswas, The Age, (Friday, 31 October 1924), p.1.
4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220492665 Marriages: Chesswas—Freeman, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 6 May 1882), p.15.
5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189348053 Deaths: Chesswas, The Age, (Friday, 23 October 1903), p.1.
6. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9ihVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3ZADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6175%2C4906313 Deaths: Chesswas, The Age, (Tuesday, 21 November 1972), p.24.
7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84393310 Deaths: Chesswas, The Argus, (Thursday, 25 October 1956), p.12.