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Footscray Charlie Lovett Footscray

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  Numbers not worn during his playing years. Footscray

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Red white and Blue

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Birthday:

1863

Period:

  1900

Senior Games:

  1877 to 1883, 1886, 1890

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Recruited From:

  Footscray.
Honours:   At 14 years old was the youngest recorded player to play for Footscray.

Captain 1881 to 1883. Life member of the Footscray Football Club.

Won the silver cup for the best all-round player in 1883
  Charles Eldred Lovett assisted to organise the club in 1886.  

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Western Bulldogs He was a champion footballer who gave no quarter on the ground. He considered the game was brutal and one for gladiators. He was a marvellous exponent of the little mark, where he would place the ball on his foot and lift to another player only a step away. This would give them a mark and a set kick. They later changed the rules so that the ball had to travel 5 yards before a mark was awarded.  
   
  A true lover of the sport and Footscray club he supported the team during his who life. His brother Harry also played for the club but unfortunately died as a result of match injuries, having been pushed in the back into a three-cornered post.  
   
  Charlie was a wood engraver but later became a businessman and event promoter. He was hugely successful during the 1880's but lost wealth during the depression of the 1990's. He had three team mates called Jack, King and Dan Warren - he married their sister Mary.  
   
Click to return to Home page He was against the club entering the league in 1925 and spoke out against it, declaring in 1929 that it wont be long before the players are wearing American style body armour.  
 
Died in 1939.