Charlie McCartney
Personal information
Full name Charles Patrick McCartney
Date of birth (1874-02-26)26 February 1874
Place of birth West Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death 26 May 1949(1949-05-26) (aged 75)
Place of death Colac, Victoria
Original team(s) West Melbourne
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1897 South Melbourne 13 (0)
1899 Essendon 04 (0)
Total 17 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1899.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Charles Patrick McCartney[1] (26 February 1874 — 26 May 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Family

The son of Francis McCartney (1840-1895), and Ann McCartney (1840-1898),[3] née Ryan, Charles Patrick McCartney was born on 26 February 1874.

He married Alice Maud Felton (1877-1925)[4] in 1904. He later married Jessie Wilhelmina Rachel Johnson (1866-1946), née Gail, in 1933.

Football

McCartney first played with West Melbourne in the junior competition and joined South Melbourne for the 1896 VFA season.[5] He played for South Melbourne in its first VFL match, against Melbourne, at the Lake Oval, on 8 May 1897.[6]

In 1898 he returned to West Melbourne, the team wearing crepe in the week following his mother's death.[7]

In 1899 McCartney returned to the VFL, this time playing with Essendon.[8]

Later life

McCartney worked for the International Harvester Company for nearly fifty years, retiring in 1940.[9]

Death

Charles Patrick McCartney died at Colac on 26 May 1949.[10]

Notes

  1. ↑ Several official records (including Victorian BDM records) and news articles spell his surname as MacArtney but official football records have McCartney
  2. ↑ Holmesby & Main (2014), p.567.
  3. ↑ "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 16, 207. Victoria, Australia. 14 June 1898. p. 1.
  4. ↑ "Family Notices". The Argus. No. 24, 474. Victoria, Australia. 15 January 1925. p. 1.
  5. ↑ "GOSSIP". Sportsman. No. 793. Victoria, Australia. 28 April 1896. p. 6.
  6. ↑ 'Onlooker', "South v. Melbourne: The Red and White Defeated", The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 15 May 1897), p.3.
  7. ↑ "WEST MELBOURNE V. HAWTHORN". North Melbourne Gazette. Vol. V, no. 4. Victoria, Australia. 24 June 1898. p. 3.
  8. ↑ "FOOTBALL". The Argus. No. 16, 506. Victoria, Australia. 1 June 1899. p. 7.
  9. ↑ "Presentation To Workman". Williamstown Chronicle. No. 4772. Victoria, Australia. 9 March 1940. p. 1.
  10. ↑ Deaths: Macartney, The Argus, (Friday, 27 May 1949), p.12.

References

  • 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.
  • Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8
  • Essendon Football Team, Melbourne Punch, (Thursday, 1 June 1899), p.21—note that McCartney is identified as "M'Carty".


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