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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

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).

Family

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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

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Richmond (VFL)

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

Fitzroy (VFL)

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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)

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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

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

Footnotes

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  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.

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