Charlie Zinnick

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Charles Zinnick
Personal information
Full name Charles Frederick Zinnick
Nickname(s) Chook[1]
Date of birth 31 March 1896
Place of birth Birkenhead, South Australia
Date of death 5 August 1967(1967-08-05) (aged 71)
Place of death Footscray Hospital,
Footscray, Victoria
Original team(s) Yarraville
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1921 Essendon 13 (0)
1925 Footscray 01 (0)
Total 14 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1925.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Charles Frederick "Chook" Zinnick (31 March 1896 – 5 August 1967)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and Footscray.

Family[edit]

The son of Anton August Zinnack (1856-1915),[3] and Elizabeth Zinnack (1862-1912), née Dewson,[4] Carl Frederick Zinnack was born at Birkenhead, South Australia on 31 March 1896.

Football[edit]

Yarraville (VJFA)[edit]

1914, 1919, 1922,

Essendon (VFL)[edit]

1921. After a short career of 13 games at Essendon, Zinnick moved to Footscray where he played while the club was in the Victorian Football Association.

Footscray (VFA)[edit]

1922-1924

Footscray (VFL)[edit]

He played only one further VFL game before retiring shortly after Footscray joined the Victorian Football League in 1925.

Death[edit]

He died at the Footscray Hospital, in Footscray, Victoria on 5 August 1967.[5]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ C. Zinnick: Vice-Captain Yarraville Football Club, The (Footscray) Independent, (Saturday, 29 July 1922) p.4.
  2. ^ "Essendon Football Club - Team Players - Charles F. Zinnick". essendonfc.com.au. Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  3. ^ Deaths: Zinnack, The (Adelaide) Express and Telegraph, (Wednesday, 16 June 1915), p.1.
  4. ^ Deaths: Zinnack, The (Adelaide) Chronicle, (Saturday, 3 August 1912), p.34.
  5. ^ Deaths: Zinnick, The Age, (Monday, 7 August 1967), p.13.

References[edit]

  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
  • Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8

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