Charlie Roland

Charles Henry Roland (29 January 1876 – 3 February 1938 [1]) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2] [3]

Charlie Roland
Roland in 1905
Personal information
Full name Charles Henry Roland
Date of birth (1876-01-29)29 January 1876
Place of birth Corowa, New South Wales
Date of death 3 February 1938(1938-02-03) (aged 59)
Place of death Balmain, New South Wales
Original team(s) Border United, Excelsior
Height 174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Position(s) Wing
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1900–05, 1908 Carlton 100 (24)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1908.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Charlie "Tyke" Roland initially played for the Border Federal Junior Football Club (Corowa) in 1893. [4]

Roland then played for the Border United Football Club (Corowa based) in the Ovens and Murray Football League between 1894 and 1898. [5]

Roland then played with the Excelsior Football Club in the Ovens and Murray Football League in 1899, then he apparently moved across to Western Australia in early 1900, [6] before playing his first game with the Carlton Football Club in round one, 1900.

In 1902, Roland represented Victoria in a match against South Australia on the Adelaide Oval. [7] South Australia defeated Victoria. [8] He went onto represent Victoria on six occasions.

In 1903, the Carlton Football Club were featured in a team photo In The Punch newspaper, with Roland pictured in the back row. [9]

Roland played for Boulder City FC, Kalgoorlie, WA in 1906 and 1907 and was a member of their 1907 Goldfields Football League premiership team [10] and was later cleared back to Carlton Football Club in May, 1908. [11] He went onto play just our more games for Carlton, bringing his VFL games tally to exactly 100. Unfortunately for Roland he missed out on Carlton’s premierships in 1906, 07 and 08.

Roland finished off the 1908 season with Essendon's Victorian Football Association team that lost the preliminary final to Brunswick Football Club. [12]

In 1910, Roland was playing for YMCA - Sydney. [13]

Rowland met an unfortunate death in 1938, when he was caught in machinery at a rubber factory in Sydney, NSW, where he worked. [14] [15] [16]


Notes
  1. "1938 - Death Notice". Trove Newspapers. The Sydney Morning Herald.
  2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 719. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  3. "1903 - Carlton FC - Team Photo". Trove Newspapers. Punch.
  4. "1893 - Border Federal FC side". Trove Newspapers. The Corowa Free Press.
  5. "1897 - Border United FC v Albury FC". Trove Newspapers. The Corowa Free Press.
  6. "1899 - Charlie Roland". Trove Newspapers. Ovens and Murray Advertiser.
  7. "1902 - South Australia v Victoria". Trove Newspapers. The Argus Newspaper.
  8. "1902 - South Australia v Victoria match review / results". Trove Newspapers. The Argus Newspapers.
  9. "1903 - Carlton FC - Team Photo". Trove Newspapers. The Punch newspaper.
  10. "1907 - Goldfields FL - Grand Final match review". Kalgoorlie Miner.
  11. "1908 - Roland cleared to Carlton FC". Trove Newspapers. Kalgoorlie Miner Newspaper.
  12. "1908 - VFA Grand Final". Trove Newspapers. The Coburg Leader.
  13. "1910 - Sydney YMCA FC". Trove Newspapers. The Sun Newspaper, Kalgoorlie, WA.
  14. "1938 - Charlie Roland - Dead". Trove Newspapers. The Sporting Globe newspaper.
  15. "1938 - Fatal Accident". Trove Newspapers. The Corowa Free Press.
  16. "1938 - Death in Machinery!". Trove Newspapers. The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express.


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