Charlie E. Pannam

Charlie Pannam
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(1961-11-25) (aged 64)
Place of death	Box Hill, Victoria
Height/Weight	174 cm / 69 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1917–1922 1926–1928 Total -	Collingwood South Melbourne	097 (12) 045 (31) 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 season.

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 immigrant father and Aussie Rules footballing legend Charlie H. Pannam and the brother of Alby Pannam. Their surname Pannamopoulos was Greek but during their career they shortened it to Pannam.

Football career

Pannam spent six seasons with Collingwood and played in Grand Finals in all but one of them, winning premierships in 1917 and 1919. He played mostly in the middle of the ground, as either a wingman or centreman. In 1923 he joined South Melbourne as coach and for his first three years in charge he did so in a non-playing capacity but from 1926 to 1928 took the field as captain. His tally of 108 games as South Melbourne coach remained a record until passed by Ian Stewart in 1981.

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 1928 season Pannam took up the captain-coach position with Brunswick in the VFA. Brunswick finished fourth in the home and away rounds and fell seven points short of Port Melbourne in the first semi-final. Pannam had been reported in July and suspended for three matches^[2] but was back for the run to the finals and was amongst Brunswick's best in the final. The following year was not successful. Pannam moved to coaching only during the season for health reasons and the club finished ninth, being one of the bottom four eliminated two rounds prior to the finals.

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 start he found his feet and must have had the confidence of the Umpires' Appointment Board given that for much of the second half of 1932 he officated in the Bendigo League, one of the prime weekly appointments.

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 E. Pannam's statistics from AFL Tables
Coaching record

↑ "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.
↑ Fiddian, Marc (2009). Moulded from clay. Forest Hill, Victoria: Raccoon Tail Books. pp. 67–69, 72–73. ISBN 978-0-9805618-1-4.
↑ "Sorrento wins final". Frankston & Somerville Standard. 16 September 1933. p. 6. Retrieved 7 June 2013.

Collingwood Football Club 1917/19 VFL premiers

1917: Collingwood 9.20 (74) defeated Fitzroy 5.9 (39), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1919: Collingwood 11.12 (78) defeated Richmond 7.11 (53), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

3/2. Curtis 8/5. Drummond 10/6. Hughes 13. Lee 14/11. Laxton 18/14. McCarthy (c 1919) 19/15. Pannam 20/16. Reynolds 23/18. Saunders 26/10. Lumsden 27/12. Mutch

Coach: McHale

Captains of the South Melbourne Football Club/Sydney Swans

1897–1898: Fraser 1899: Adamson 1900: Windley 1901: Trim 1902: Windley 1903: Fogarty 1904–1905: McGee 1906: Howson 1907–1908: Dolphin 1909: Ricketts 1910–1911: Thomas 1912: Ricketts 1913: H. Kelly 1914–1915; 1917:* Belcher 1918–1919: Caldwell 1920: Belcher 1921: Willis 1922: Tandy 1923–1925: P. Scanlan 1926–1927: Pannam 1928: J. Scanlan 1929: Stanbridge 1930–1931: J. Scanlan 1932: Leonard 1933–1936: Bisset 1937: Nash 1938–1945: Matthews 1946–1948: Graham 1949: Lucas 1950–1952: Lane 1953–1954: Clegg 1955: Gunn 1956: Gillett 1957–1960: Clegg 1961–1971: Skilton 1972: Rantall 1973–1976: Bedford 1977–1979: Quade 1980–1984: Round 1984–1985: Browning 1986–1992: Carroll 1993–2002: P. Kelly 2003–2005: Maxfield 2006–2007: Hall/Kirk/Barry 2008: Hall/Barry/Bolton 2009–2010: Bolton/Goodes/Kirk 2011–2012: Goodes/McVeigh 2013–: Jack/McVeigh

*South Melbourne did not participate in the VFL in 1916 due to World War I

Coaches of the South Melbourne Football Club/Sydney Swans

1909: Ricketts 1910–1911: Thomas 1912: Ricketts 1913: H. Kelly 1914–1917: Belcher 1918–1919: Elms/Howson 1920: Hiskins 1921: Wood 1922: Cazaly 1923–1928: Pannam 1929: Caldwell 1929: Fleiter 1930–1931: Scanlan 1932: Leonard 1933–1936: Bisset 1935: Diggins 1937–1938: Cazaly 1939: Matthews 1940: Baggott 1941–1944: J. Kelly 1945–1948: Adams 1948–1949: Hale 1950–1952: Lane 1953: Nash 1954–1957: Matthews 1958–1959: Clegg 1960–1961: Faul 1962–1964: McMahen 1965–1966: Skilton 1965: Lahiff 1967–1968: Miller 1969–1972: Smith 1973–1975: John 1976–1977: Stewart 1978: Tuddenham 1979–1981: Stewart 1982–1984: Quade 1984: Franklin 1984: Hammond 1985: Northey 1986–1988: Hafey 1989–1991: Kinnear 1992–1993: Buckenara 1993: Scott 1993–1995: Barassi 1996–2002: Eade 2002–2010: Roos 2011–: Longmire

Italics denote caretaker coach

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