1927 Tasmanian Football League – Premiership Medal (Jack Charlesworth)

Cananore Football Club won the 1927 TFL Premiership and were also State Premiers in 1927. Jack Charlesworth was Captain of the Cananore Football Club from 1924 to 1928. Cananore developed into one of the most powerful teams Tasmania has ever seen, claiming a total of 10 TFL and State Premierships between 1921 and 1927. This included a hat trick of TFL/State Doubles from 1925 to 1927. Charlesworth was one of the first picked players for not only TFL combined teams (featuring more than 20 times) but also for Tasmania, with Charlesworth representing his state on more than a dozen occasions including two National Carnivals in 1924 and 1927, the latter as Captain.

However, arguably his greatest representative success came in one of Tasmanian football’s greatest victories against South Australia in Adelaide in 1923. Given no chance against the home side the TFL Representative team recorded a famous 32 point victory, with Charlesworth kicking two goals and completely blanketing Sturt champion and future test cricketer – Victor Richardson, regarded by many at the time to be the best centreman in the country. These sorts of outstanding performances saw Charlesworth regularly approached about crossing to Victoria to play VFL football, however as was the case with many of his teammates – Charlesworth resisted all offers, content to simply ply his trade in Tasmania.