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Footscray vs Essendon
| Round: 1 Venue: Western Oval Date: Sat, 22-04-1939 2:45 pm Crowd: 23,000 | |||||
| Footscray | 7.9.51 | 9.10.64 | 10.16.76 | 14.18.102 | C: Joe Kelly |
| Essendon | 3.1.19 | 5.13.43 | 10.14.74 | 15.17.107 | C: Jack Baggott |
| FOOTS by 32 | FOOTS by 21 | FOOTS by 2 | ESS by 5 | ||
Match stats
| Footscray | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 5 | Bennett, George | 0 | 27y 212d | 141 | 8 | |||||||||
| 8 | Cahill, Pat | 0 | 19y 271d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 2 | Collins, Alan | 0 | 19y 169d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 9 | Evans, Roy | 0 | 28y 163d | 47 | 15 | |||||||||
| 15 | Evenden, Reg | 0 | 20y 87d | 3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 | Greenham, Jim | 1 | 23y 157d | 27 | 5 | |||||||||
| 1 | Hickey, Harry | 2 | 21y 277d | 21 | 29 | |||||||||
| 23 | Livingstone, Stan | 0 | 25y 218d | 6 | 0 | |||||||||
| 19 | Miller, Jim | 0 | 19y 327d | 19 | 5 | |||||||||
| 3 | Olliver, Arthur | 3 | 22y 133d | 63 | 126 | |||||||||
| 24 | Palmer, Ambrose | 0 | 28y 188d | 39 | 16 | |||||||||
| 7 | Ryan, Jack | 1 | 24y 140d | 61 | 31 | |||||||||
| 10 | Ryan, Joe | 4 | 21y 207d | 23 | 36 | |||||||||
| 17 | Ryan, Leo | 0 | 25y 239d | 73 | 1 | |||||||||
| 28 | Sampson, Alf | 1 | 26y 330d | 22 | 1 | |||||||||
| 16 | Spargo, Bob | 0 | 25y 289d | 52 | 4 | |||||||||
| 6 | Standfield, Paul | 0 | 22y 184d | 25 | 14 | |||||||||
| 4 | Ware, Norm | 2 | 28y 48d | 116 | 77 | |||||||||
| 13 | Wilson, Don | 0 | 24y 182d | 4 | 0 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 18 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 14 | 18 | 24y 8d | 744 | 368 | |||||||||
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 24 | Begley, Les | 1 | 22y 190d | 14 | 10 | |||||||||
| 12 | Bell, George | 0 | 26y 350d | 74 | 4 | |||||||||
| 9 | Bryce, Ted | 1 | 26y 122d | 52 | 24 | |||||||||
| 15 | Buttsworth, Wally | 0 | 22y 91d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 5 | Caesar, Jack | 1 | 22y 107d | 16 | 6 | |||||||||
| 19 | Cassin, Jack | 0 | 23y 295d | 35 | 29 | |||||||||
| 4 | Exelby, Murray | 1 | 26y 193d | 43 | 29 | |||||||||
| 26 | Green, Fred | 0 | 18y 47d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 17 | Lippiatt, Harry | 0 | 21y 119d | 14 | 1 | |||||||||
| 11 | Luff, Bill | 0 | 29y 118d | 61 | 37 | |||||||||
| 10 | Maynes, Leo | 0 | 27y 321d | 34 | 9 | |||||||||
| 2 | McDermott, Norm | 1 | 25y 344d | 18 | 9 | |||||||||
| 3 | Reynolds, Dick | 2 | 23y 306d | 97 | 105 | |||||||||
| 29 | Reynolds, Tom | 6 | 22y 152d | 24 | 85 | |||||||||
| 16 | Slater, Syd | 0 | 24y 127d | 33 | 14 | |||||||||
| 6 | Standfield, Bob | 0 | 23y 204d | 14 | 1 | |||||||||
| 20 | Torney, Hugh | 0 | 29y 159d | 90 | 54 | |||||||||
| 28 | Watts, Ray | 2 | 21y 252d | 25 | 75 | |||||||||
| 14 | Wilson, Stan | 0 | 26y 192d | 42 | 2 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 17 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 15 | 17 | 24y 174d | 688 | 494 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Alan Collins debuted for Footscray (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)Wally Buttsworth debuted for Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)