Vic Chanter
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Vic Chanter is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy
in the VFL
.
at the Brunswick Street Oval
; South Melbourne won the match, 10.12 (72) to 7.21 (63). He played 5 senior games in 1946, and 13 in 1947. When Fred Hughson
left Fitzroy at the end of the 1947 season, Chanter took over as fullback. In 1951 he became the first Fitzroy fullback to win the club's Best and Fairest award.
Coleman, who would finish the season with 103 goals, did not score a goal in the match; and this was the first (and only) time that Coleman was held goal-less in his entire 98 game career. He had less than half a dozen kicks for the entire match, and was only able to score two behinds, one of which was scored in the last scoring kick of the match.
Fitzroy Football Club
The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...
in the VFL
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
.
Fred Chanter
His father, Fred Chanter, had played one senior game for Fitzroy, in the round seven match against Essendon, at the Brunswick Street Oval on 12 June 1920.Fitzroy
Recruited from the Alhington Football Club, Chanter had signed with Fitzroy in 1946 to avoid being bound to Collingwood (as he would have been under the soon-to-be-adopted new zoning laws). Chanter made his debut for Fitzroy, aged 25, on 25 May 1946, against South MelbourneSydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...
at the Brunswick Street Oval
Brunswick Street Oval
The Brunswick Street Oval, currently known as WT Peterson Community Oval, also known as the Fitzroy Cricket Ground is a cricket and Australian rules football ground located in Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, Victoria...
; South Melbourne won the match, 10.12 (72) to 7.21 (63). He played 5 senior games in 1946, and 13 in 1947. When Fred Hughson
Fred Hughson
Fred Hughson was an Australian rules footballer who played for, captained, and later coached Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League...
left Fitzroy at the end of the 1947 season, Chanter took over as fullback. In 1951 he became the first Fitzroy fullback to win the club's Best and Fairest award.
VFL
In 1951, he was full-back in the Victorian State team that played against the SAFL at the MCG on Saturday, 26 May 1951. He was one of the best players on the ground in Victoria's unconvincing eight point win, 10.11 (71) to 9.9. (63).Goal-less Coleman
In 1952, he was vice-captain; and, on Saturday, 28 June 1952, in round ten of the 1952 season, at a very, very muddy Brunswick Street Oval, in a tough, rugged match where Fitzroy 13.12 (90) beat Essendon 5.8 (38), Chanter played at full back against Essendon champion full-forward, John Coleman.Coleman, who would finish the season with 103 goals, did not score a goal in the match; and this was the first (and only) time that Coleman was held goal-less in his entire 98 game career. He had less than half a dozen kicks for the entire match, and was only able to score two behinds, one of which was scored in the last scoring kick of the match.