Died November 9, 2010 Name Vic Chanter | Years Club Height/Weight 183 cm / 84 kg Weight 84 kg | |
Date of birth (1921-01-26)26 January 1921 Date of death 5 November 2010(2010-11-05) (aged 89) Debut 25 May 1946 (round 6), Fitzroy
v. South Melbourne, at Brunswick Street Oval Role Australian Rules Footballer | ||
Original team(s) Alphington Amateurs | ||
Vic Chanter (born 26 January 1921 – 9 November 2010) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL.
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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 Alphington 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 Melbourne 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.
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.
Last game
He played his last game for Fitzroy in the 1952 Preliminary Final against Collingwood, which Collingwood won, 11.15 (81) to 9.8 (62).