Charlie Roland
Charles Henry Roland was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League.
Charlie "Tyke" Roland initially played for the Border Federal Junior Football Club in 1893.
Roland then played for the Border United Football Club in the Ovens and Murray Football League between 1894 and 1898.
Roland then played with the Excelsior Football Club in the Ovens and Murray Football League in 1899, then he apparently moved across to Western Australia in early 1900, before playing his first game with the Carlton Football Club in round one, 1900.
In 1902, Roland represented Victoria in a match against South Australia on the Adelaide Oval. South Australia defeated Victoria. He went onto represent Victoria on six occasions.
In 1903, the Carlton Football Club were featured in a team photo In The Punch newspaper, with Roland pictured in the back row.
Roland played for Boulder City FC, Kalgoorlie, WA in 1906 and 1907 and was a member of their 1907 Goldfields Football League premiership team and was later cleared back to Carlton Football Club in May, 1908. He went onto play just our more games for Carlton, bringing his VFL games tally to exactly 100. Unfortunately for Roland he missed out on Carlton’s premierships in 1906, 07 and 08.
Roland finished off the 1908 season with Essendon's Victorian Football Association team that lost the preliminary final to Brunswick Football Club.
In 1910, Roland was playing for YMCA - Sydney.
Rowland met an unfortunate death in 1938, when he was caught in machinery at a rubber factory in Sydney, NSW, where he worked.
