{{Short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Charles Sweatman | image = | fullname = Charles Herbert Sweatman | birth_date = {{birth date|1873|07|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Bendigo, Victoria | death_date = {{death date and age|1915|06|11|1873|07|29|df=y}} | death_place = Echuca, Victoria | originalteam = Ascot Vale | height = | weight = | position = Half back / Half forward | statsend = 1899 | years1 = 1897–99 | club1 = {{AFL Car}} | games_goals1 = 30 (3) | careerhighlights = }}
'''Charles Herbert Sweatman''' (29 July 1873 – 11 June 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref>Holmesby & Main (2009), p.809.</ref>
==Family== The son of John Sweatman (-1925),<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2154602 Deaths: Sweatman, ''The Argus'', (Tuesday, 11 August 1925), p.1.]</ref> and Amelia Ann Sweatman (-1917), née Rixon,<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1603755 Deaths: Sweatman, ''The Argus'', (Thursday, 15 March 1917), p.1.]</ref> 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'''".<ref>{{cite news |last1=De Bolfo |first1=Tony |title=120 years on: Pioneer Blue's true identity revealed |url=https://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2019-03-07/120-years-on-pioneer-blues-true-identity-revealed |accessdate=11 April 2019 |work=carltonfc.com.au |date=7 March 2019}}</ref> Both of these were clerical errors.
On 1 May 1900 "C.H. Sweatman" was granted a clearance from Carlton to Essendon Town.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/190056359 Football, ''The Age'', (Thursday,3 May 1900), p.3.]</ref>
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.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/89204854/8981141 Goldfields Football Association, ''The Kalgoorlie Miner'', (Tuesday, 23 May 1905), p.8.]</ref><ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206697143 The Boulder City Football Team, ''The (Perth) Truth'', (Saturday, 5 October 1907), p.8.]</ref>
In June 1908, "C. Sweetman" was granted a clearance from Boulder City to the Brighton Football Club.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10665015 Football, ''The Argus'', (Thursday, 18 June 1908), p.9.]</ref> Although he was (apparently) selected in the team,<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/164347801 (Team List) Brighton v. Northcote, (Saturday, 27 June 1908), p.2.]</ref> he did not play for Brighton in the match against Northcote on 27 June 1908.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242041133 Brighton v. Northcote, ''The Herald'', (Saturday, 27 June 1908), p.6.]</ref>
==Death== He died (suddenly), of heart failure, at the Echuca District Hospital on 11 June 1915.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88513423 Social Brevities, ''The Flemington Spectator'', (Thursday, 24 June 1915), p.2.]</ref><ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/160256416 Obituary, ''The Echuca and Moama Advertiser and Farmers' Gazette'', (Saturday, 12 June 1915), p.2.]</ref>
== Footnotes == {{reflist}}
==References== * {{Ref AFL Encyc|8th}} * Maplestone, M., ''Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996'', Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. {{ISBN|0-9591740-2-8}} == External links == * [https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/C/Charles_Sweatman.html Charles Sweatman's playing statistics] from AFL Tables * [https://australianfootball.com/players/player/Charles+Sweatman/862 "Charlie Sweatman's" profile] at AustralianFootball.com * [http://www.blueseum.org/Charlie+Sweatman "Charlie Sweatman's" profile] at Blueseum * [http://www.thevfaproject.org/pages/Players/Sweetman,_C._H..php "C.H. Sweetman", at ''The VFA Project''.]
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