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Herbert Carey Tregurtha 'Bert' Sutton (15 April 1901 – 17 August 1981) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1920s.
Key Information
Family
[edit]The son of Thomas Henry Baldock Sutton (1865–1934)[1] and Alice Melita Sutton, née Tregurtha (1869–1950),[2][3] Herbert Carey Tregurtha Sutton was born at Williamstown on 15 April 1901.
Sutton married Mary Christina Evans (1900–1979) on 29 June 1929 at Wesley Church in Melbourne.[4] They subsequently moved to Adelaide, where they had a son, Evan Carey Sutton (1932-2006), and then moved to Sydney where they settled in the suburb of Concord.
Football
[edit]Sutton, who came to South Melbourne from Williamstown,[5] was used mostly as a flanker.
He left South Melbourne in 1924 to captain-coach St Patrick's in the Ovens & Murray Football League to the premiership.[6][7]
In 1925 he moved on to captain-coach North Launceston for a season and also steered them to a premiership.[8]
After another stint at South Melbourne (1926 to 1927),[9] Sutton crossed to Hawthorn in 1928 as captain-coach.[10][11] The club failed to win a game all year, and he was not retained for the 1929 season.
Umpire
[edit]Sutton was later an umpire in the Victorian Junior Football League.[12]
War service
[edit]Sutton served in the Volunteer Defence Corps during World War II.[13]
Death
[edit]Bert Sutton died in Concord, New South Wales on 17 August 1981 and was cremated at Rookwood Cemetery.[14]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Deaths: Sutton, The Age, (Wednesday, 25 April 1934), p. 1.
- ^ Marriages: Sutton—Tregurtha, The Argus (Saturday, 29 February 1896), p. 1.
- ^ Deaths: Sutton, The Argus, (Saturday, 19 August 1950), p. 20.
- ^ "Family Notices". Table Talk. No. 3192. Melbourne. 11 July 1929. p. 54.
- ^ "CLUB PROSPECTS". The Herald. No. 14, 074. Melbourne. 22 April 1921. p. 3.
- ^ "THE PLAYERS". Record. Vol. XXIX, no. 24. South Melbourne. 14 June 1924. p. 3.
- ^ "FOOTBALL NOTES". Williamstown Chronicle. No. 4081. Victoria, Australia. 6 September 1924. p. 3.
- ^ "FOOTBALL". The Examiner (DAILY ed.). Launceston, Tasmania. 3 April 1928. p. 3.
- ^ Victorian League Football: South Melbourne Team, The Australasian Pictorial, (Saturday, 10 September 1927), p. viii.
- ^ "FOOTBALL COACHES". The Herald. No. 15, 863. Melbourne. 21 March 1928. p. 3.
- ^ Victorian League Football, 1928 — Hawthorn Team, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 4 August 1928), p. 45.
- ^ "These Days of Sport". The Argus. No. 28, 357. Melbourne. 10 July 1937. p. 22.
- ^ "SUTTON, Herbert Carey Tregurtha". Department of Veterans' Affairs.
- ^ "Funerals". Sydney Morning Herald. No. 44816. Sydney. 18 August 1981. p. 18.
References
[edit]- Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
External links
[edit]- Bert Sutton's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Bert Sutton's playing statistics from The VFA Project.
- Bert Sutton at AustralianFootball.com