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Footscray vs Geelong
| Round: 1 Venue: Western Oval Date: Sat, 06-05-1944 2:45 pm Crowd: 9,000 | |||||
| Footscray | 5.7.37 | 9.12.66 | 10.17.77 | 15.23.113 | C: Arthur Olliver |
| Geelong | 0.0.0 | 1.2.8 | 5.5.35 | 8.7.55 | C: Tom Arklay |
| FOOTS by 37 | FOOTS by 58 | FOOTS by 42 | FOOTS by 58 | ||
Match stats
| Footscray | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 14 | Cahill, Pat | 0 | 24y 286d | 30 | 14 | |||||||||
| 2 | Collins, Alan | 0 | 24y 184d | 71 | 138 | |||||||||
| 16 | Dudley, Merv | 2 | 26y 341d | 11 | 16 | |||||||||
| 15 | Ellis, Ted | 0 | 31y 73d | 147 | 43 | |||||||||
| 20 | Greenham, Jim | 4 | 28y 172d | 50 | 46 | |||||||||
| 5 | Grove, Ron | 0 | 24y 336d | 33 | 11 | |||||||||
| 9 | Hand, Pat | 0 | 20y 205d | 10 | 0 | |||||||||
| 17 | Henderson, Don | 0 | 25y 272d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hickey, Harry | 5 | 26y 292d | 85 | 112 | |||||||||
| 12 | Houston, Bill | 1 | 25y 266d | 27 | 44 | |||||||||
| 27 | McCankie, Len | 0 | 19y 180d | 33 | 0 | |||||||||
| 6 | McTaggart, Bert | 0 | 28y 16d | 40 | 7 | |||||||||
| 31 | McTaggart, Bill | 0 | 23y 73d | 14 | 12 | |||||||||
| 14 | Miller, Jim | 1 | 24y 342d | 68 | 18 | |||||||||
| 3 | Olliver, Arthur | 0 | 27y 148d | 143 | 166 | |||||||||
| 10 | Ryan, Joe | 2 | 26y 222d | 89 | 150 | |||||||||
| 1 | Thoms, Jim | 0 | 25y 347d | 85 | 48 | |||||||||
| 30 | Tribe, George | 0 | 23y 215d | 23 | 22 | |||||||||
| 25 | Tribe, Tom | 0 | 25y 92d | 59 | 5 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 23 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 15 | 23 | 25y 175d | 1019 | 852 | |||||||||
| Geelong | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 12 | Barclay, Lionel | 0 | 23y 135d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 14 | Beasley, Harry | 0 | 24y 285d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 8 | Brown, Doug | 2 | 20y 250d | 14 | 23 | |||||||||
| 1 | Butcher, Jack | 0 | 29y 191d | 95 | 31 | |||||||||
| 6 | Dougherty, George | 2 | 30y 149d | 141 | 205 | |||||||||
| 3 | Fitzgerald, Jim | 0 | 19y 144d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 17 | Gniel, George | 0 | 25y 30d | 81 | 3 | |||||||||
| 11 | Graham, Colin | 1 | 28y 268d | 11 | 7 | |||||||||
| 30 | Howie, Jim | 1 | 26y 224d | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 28 | Leahy, Pat | 0 | 26y 247d | 17 | 14 | |||||||||
| 27 | McHenry, Bob | 0 | 24y 200d | 6 | 2 | |||||||||
| 15 | Munday, Jim | 0 | 26y 187d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 23 | Nankervis, Vic | 1 | 25y 171d | 12 | 12 | |||||||||
| 10 | Patman, Ralph | 0 | 28y 117d | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
| 24 | Sing, Jack | 0 | 19y 216d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 22 | Southern, Wally | 1 | 22y 193d | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| 20 | Tucker, Neil | 0 | 28y 363d | 48 | 17 | |||||||||
| 5 | Tuohill, Jack | 0 | 25y 54d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | White, Lindsay | 0 | 22y 122d | 43 | 178 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 8 | 7 | 25y 71d | 480 | 494 | |||||||||
Match highlights
George Dougherty played his 150th V/AFL game: Geelong vs. Footscray (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)Doug Brown debuted for Geelong (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Jim Fitzgerald debuted for Geelong (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)