Charles Edward Teague was a carpenter and joiner born in Portsmouth. He arrived in Adelaide in time to join the Cheltenham soccer club for the 1915 season. It was a season played to the background of Gallipoli and growing enlistments of players, but Cheltenham were league champions and Teague also played in their Charity Cup winning team.
He enlisted in the AIF in February 1916 and in May was able to obtain leave from training camp to marry his fiancée Vera. He had served in a Territorial unit in England, a Sportsman’s Battalion. Assigned to the 50th Battalion AIF Teague went through two years of fighting on the Western Front, being wounded twice – shot in the face the second time – and promoted to lance corporal.
Having returned to Adelaide in early 1919 he was immediately back on the field for Cheltenham, the club winning the league and cup double in 1920, and the league again in 1921. Charles Teague was described as a “clever defender”, and he also became involved in the administration of soccer, serving on SABFA committees in the 1920s, including a year as Assistant Secretary in 1922.
In that year he left Cheltenham and organized the revival of the Hindmarsh club. The “Marshites” had been in recess since 1919. He led them to the league title in 1924, but they amalgamated with two other clubs to form West Torrens when the district system was introduced in 1925.
Teague had stopped playing by the mid 1920s, but he reappeared on SASFA committees in the late 1930s, serving as a state team selector in 1937. He died in Adelaide in 1951.