Charlie Vanderbist
Hawthorn
AFL career
7 games7 goals
- Debut
- R7 1939 v FSC3 June 1939
- Most recent
- R7 1940 v FIT8 June 1940
Stats
Bio
Arriving at Glenferrie Oval via Rochester and a dominant stint at Mordialloc—where he won the 1938 Federal League Best and Fairest—Charlie Vanderbist was a diminutive but sharp-shooting rover and forward. Standing just 166cm, he made an immediate impact on the scoreboard but is perhaps best remembered by football historians for a brutal 1939 encounter against Melbourne, where he was on the receiving end of a strike from Ron Barassi Sr that resulted in a four-week suspension for the Demon. His VFL career was effectively curtailed by the onset of World War II, during which he enlisted in the Australian Army, though he later re-emerged as a prolific country footballer, claiming the Central Gippsland League goalkicking award with Warragul more than a decade after his League debut.
Profile
- Born
- 15 June 1915
- Died
- 06 May 1970 (aged 54y 325d)
- Birthplace
- Korong Vale, VIC
- Deathplace
- Lakes Entrance, VIC
- Height
- 166 cm
- Weight
- 77 kg
Teams
Bio
1 revisionArriving at Glenferrie Oval via Rochester and a dominant stint at Mordialloc—where he won the 1938 Federal League Best and Fairest—Charlie Vanderbist was a diminutive but sharp-shooting rover and forward. Standing just 166cm, he made an immediate impact on the scoreboard but is perhaps best remembered by football historians for a brutal 1939 encounter against Melbourne, where he was on the receiving end of a strike from Ron Barassi Sr that resulted in a four-week suspension for the Demon. His VFL career was effectively curtailed by the onset of World War II, during which he enlisted in the Australian Army, though he later re-emerged as a prolific country footballer, claiming the Central Gippsland League goalkicking award with Warragul more than a decade after his League debut.