Charlie Wells

Charles Wells (13 April 1892 – 19 October 1929) was an Australian rules football player at the Richmond Football Club and the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

For the American crime novelist, see Charlie Wells (writer).

Charlie Wells
Personal information
Full name Charles Wells
Date of birth (1892-04-13)13 April 1892
Place of birth Richmond, Victoria
Date of death 19 October 1929(1929-10-19) (aged 37)
Place of death Burnley, Victoria
Original team(s) Port Melbourne Juniors
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Position(s) half-back flank
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1912 Richmond (VFL) 05 (5)
1913–1914 Fitzroy (VFL) 15 (6)
1915, 1918 Northcote (VFA) 20 (4)
Total 40 (15)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1918.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of William Wells, and Caroline Wells, née Blake, Charles Wells was born in Richmond, Victoria on 13 April 1892.

He married Fanny Ellen Craven (1892–1971) in 1915.[1] Their son, William Charles Richard "Billy" Wells (1916–1984) also played with Richmond.[2]

Football

Richmond (VFL)

Wells made his debut for Richmond against St Kilda in Round 1 of the 1912 VFL season, at the Junction Oval.[3]

Fitzroy (VFL)

Cleared from Richmond to Fitzroy on 16 April 1913,[4] he played 15 games, and kicked 6 goals, over two seasons (1913 and 1914), becoming a premiership player for Fitzroy in the 1913 VFL Grand Final, under the captaincy of Bill Walker (the coach was Percy Parratt).

Northcote (VFA)

On 24 April 1915, Wells was cleared from Fitzroy to Northcote in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).[5] He played in all of Northcote's thirteen matches in 1915.[6]

The 1915 VFA competition was shortened to only 13 matches due to World War I (the last home-and-away round was on 17 July 1915). There was no VFA competition at all in 1916 and 1917. A truncated competition was conducted in 1918, with only six teams involved (including Northcote) and only 10 home-and-away matches before the finals. Wells played in seven of those 1918 matches.

Death

He died at his home in Burnley, Victoria on 19 October 1929.[7]

Footnotes
  1. Fanny re-msrried in 1943: to David Gladstone Bishop.
  2. Note that, in his profile of Billy Wells, Hogan (1996), pp.243-244 has mistakenly included information (including date of birth and nickname) pertinent to Bill Wells, an entirely different individual.
  3. "W to Z". Brisbane Lions. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  4. Other Permits, The Argus, (Thursday, 17 April 1913), p.6.
  5. Football: Permits to Players, The Argus, (Thursday, 22 April 1915), p.4.
  6. Note that the list at "The VFA Project", which shows 12 matches, has omitted his appearance in the drawn match against Brighton on 15 May 1915 (see: A Drawn Game: Northcote and Brighton, The Argus, (Monday, 17 May 1915), p.13).
  7. Deaths: Wells, The Age, (Monday, 21 October 1929), p.1.

References


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