Charlie McSwain was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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er who played with Carlton

Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (VFL).

McSwain spent six seasons at Carlton after arriving from Merbein. He put together 25 consecutive games from 1926 to 1927 and played in a Preliminary Final in 1929, but Carlton lost to Richmond by a goal.

The next stage of McSwain's career took place in the Victorian Football Association

Victorian Football League

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, firstly at Northcote

Northcote Football Club

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 in 1931, with whom he appeared in a narrow Grand Final loss to Oakleigh

Oakleigh Football Club

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, as a follower. However the next season he played in a winning VFA Grand Final, this time at full-back.

Appointed captain-coach of Preston

Northern Bullants

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in 1933, he steered them to third position in his second and last year in charge, but missed the finals through injury.