Charlie McCartney

Australian rules footballer

This article is about the Australian rules footballer. For the cricketer, see Charlie Macartney. For the English footballer, see Charlie MacCartney.

Australian rules footballer

Charlie McCartney

Personal information
Full name|  Charles Patrick McCartney
Date of birth|  (1873-03-17)17 March 1873
Place of birth|  West Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death|  26 May 1949(1949-05-26) (aged 76)
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] (17 March 1873 — 26 May 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

## Family

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The son of Francis McCartney (1840-1895), and Ann McCartney (1840-1898),[3] née Ryan, Charles Patrick McCartney was born on 17 March 1873.

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

## Football

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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

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

## Death

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

## Notes

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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

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* 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".

## External links

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* Charlie McCartney's playing statistics from AFL Tables
* Charlie McCartney at AustralianFootball.com

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