George Challis (Australian rules footballer)
Australian rules footballer
George David Challis (9 February 1891 – 15 July 1916) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1910s.
Family
The son of Michael Charles Challis (1865–1928), and Margaret Challis (1868–1943), née McGregor, George David Challis was born at Cleveland in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania on 9 February 1891.
He is the great-great-uncle of Levi Casboult.
Education
He attended Launceston Church Grammar School.
Football
Challis was a Tasmanian and started his career at Launceston, where he was a premiership player in 1909 and regular NTFA representative at the State Championships. He also represented Tasmania at the 1911 Adelaide Carnival, participating in their famous win over Western Australia. During this time he played mainly as a half forward or rover but when he was lured to Carlton in 1912 he soon established himself as a wingman. It was in that position that he starred in Carlton's 1915 premiership team.
He almost missed out on the chance to win a premiership as he had attempted to join the army at the beginning of the season, only to be refused because his toes overlapped.
Hall of Fame
The Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame was established in 2005; and among all of those who had played football in Tasmania over more than a century, Challis was one of the 130 former players chosen to be in the initial list of inductees.
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