Charlie Pannam (footballer, born 1897)
Charlie Pannam | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Charles Elliott Pannam | ||
Date of birth | 21 April 1897 | ||
Place of birth | Collingwood, Victoria, Australia | ||
Date of death | 25 November 1961 | (aged 64)||
Place of death | Box Hill, Victoria | ||
Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1917–1922 | Collingwood | 97 (12) | |
1926–1928 | South Melbourne | 45 (31) | |
Total | 142 (43) | ||
Coaching career | |||
Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
1923–1928 | South Melbourne | 108 (54–54–0) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1928. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Charles Elliott Pannam (21 April 1897 – 25 November 1961) was an Australian rules footballer and VFL umpire who played for Collingwood and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was the son of a Greek-Australian Aussie rules footballing legend Charlie Pannam and the brother of Alby Pannam, and he was a grandfather to Australian Football Hall of Fame player and media personality Lou Richards. Their surname Pannamopoulos was Greek but their Greek immigrant grandfather, John, shortened it to Pannam when he migrated to Australia from Greece.
Football career
Pannam spent six seasons with Collingwood and played in Grand Finals in all but one of them, winning premierships in
In later years, Pannam returned to Collingwood and filled a range of administrative roles including team manager of the under-nineteens and secretary of the Old Players' Association.[1]
At the completion of the
Pannam captained-coach again in 1931, leading Brunswick to an improved seventh position, but in 1932 he was replaced by Vic Belcher.[3]
Umpiring
Following his playing-coaching career, Pannam took up field umpiring and was immediately placed on the VFL field umpires list. After an indifferent[
Over the ensuing two seasons, he umpired all over Victoria and accumulated 45 country matches in all. The first finals match he umpired was the 1933 Peninsula Football Association Second Semi Final. So impressive was he that the association requested and received him for the following week's final.[4] These were to be his only finals.
Pannam retired at the close of the 1934 season.
References
- Charlie Pannam's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Coaching record[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Deaths". The Age (Melbourne). 27 November 1961. p. 11. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
- ^ "Rough play inquiry". The Argus (Melbourne). 20 July 1929. p. 28. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-9805618-1-4.
- ^ "Sorrento wins final". Frankston & Somerville Standard. 16 September 1933. p. 6. Retrieved 7 June 2013.