Charlie Pierce (footballer)

Charlie Pierce
Personal information
Full name Charles Thomas Pierce
Date of birth (1917-02-03)3 February 1917
Place of birth Hawthorn, Victoria
Date of death 30 August 2007(2007-08-30) (aged 90)
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1937–1939 Hawthorn 17 (13)
1939 North Melbourne 1 (0)
Total 18 (13)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1939.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Charles Thomas Pierce (3 February 1917 – 30 August 2007) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

1937 Best First-Year Players

In September 1937, The Argus selected Pierce in its team of 1937's first-year players.[2]

Best First-Year Players (1937)
Backs Bernie Treweek
(Fitzroy) 		Reg Henderson
(Richmond) 		Lawrence Morgan
(Fitzroy)
H/Backs Gordon Waters
(Hawthorn) 		Bill Cahill
(Essendon) 		Eddie Morcom
(North Melbourne)
Centre Line Ted Buckley
(Melbourne) 		George Bates
(Richmond) 		Jack Kelly
(St Kilda)
H/Forwards Col Williamson
(St Kilda) 		Ray Watts
(Essendon) 		Don Dilks
(Footscray)
Forwards Lou Sleeth
(Richmond) 		Sel Murray
(North Melbourne) 		Charlie Pierce
(Hawthorn)
Rucks/Rover Reg Garvin
(St Kilda) 		Sandy Patterson
(South Melbourne) 		Des Fothergill
(Collingwood)
Second Ruck Lawrence Morgan Col Williamson Lou Sleeth

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 706. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ Football Season's Many Good Recruits, The Argus, (Tuesday, 7 September 1937), p.14.


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