Charles Herbert Sweatman (29 July 1873 – 11 June 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2009), p.809.
Family The son of John Sweatman (-1925),Deaths: Sweatman, The Argus, (Tuesday, 11 August 1925), p.1. and Amelia Ann Sweatman (-1917), née Rixon,Deaths: Sweatman, The Argus, (Thursday, 15 March 1917), p.1. Charles Herbert Sweatman was born on 29 July 1873.
He married Elizabeth Margaret Critney Kinley (1872-1927) in 1899. (She remarried in 1920, and became Mrs. William Robinson).
Football He played 30 games over three seasons with Carlton. As was the case with another Carlton footballer, George Henry Ward (1876–1934), whose family name was mistakenly identified in all official VFL records as "Warde", Sweatman was mistakenly identified in official VFL records as "Tom Sweetman". Both of these were clerical errors.
On 1 May 1900 "C.H. Sweatman" was granted a clearance from Carlton to Essendon Town.Football, The Age, (Thursday,3 May 1900), p.3.
On 22 May 1905, "C.H. Sweetman" was granted a clearance from Essendon Town to the Boulder City Football Club in the Goldfields Football League in Western Australia.Goldfields Football Association, The Kalgoorlie Miner, (Tuesday, 23 May 1905), p.8.The Boulder City Football Team, The (Perth) Truth, (Saturday, 5 October 1907), p.8.
In June 1908, "C. Sweetman" was granted a clearance from Boulder City to the Brighton Football Club.Football, The Argus, (Thursday, 18 June 1908), p.9. Although he was (apparently) selected in the team,(Team List) Brighton v. Northcote, (Saturday, 27 June 1908), p.2. he did not play for Brighton in the match against Northcote on 27 June 1908.Brighton v. Northcote, The Herald, (Saturday, 27 June 1908), p.6.
Death He died (suddenly), of heart failure, at the Echuca District Hospital on 11 June 1915.Social Brevities, The Flemington Spectator, (Thursday, 24 June 1915), p.2.Obituary, The Echuca and Moama Advertiser and Farmers' Gazette, (Saturday, 12 June 1915), p.2.
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References
Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996.
External links Charles Sweatman's playing statistics from AFL Tables "Charlie Sweatman's" profile at AustralianFootball.com "Charlie Sweatman's" profile at Blueseum "C.H. Sweetman", at The VFA Project.