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Footscray vs Essendon
| Round: 1 Venue: Western Oval Date: Sat, 20-04-1946 2:45 pm Crowd: 26,000 | |||||
| Footscray | 2.0.12 | 7.7.49 | 8.8.56 | 15.10.100 | C: Arthur Olliver |
| Essendon | 4.3.27 | 6.6.42 | 11.12.78 | 14.14.98 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| ESS by 15 | FOOTS by 7 | ESS by 22 | FOOTS by 2 | ||
Match stats
| Footscray | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 8 | Cahill, Pat | 0 | 26y 269d | 33 | 16 | |||||||||
| 2 | Collins, Alan | 2 | 26y 167d | 86 | 148 | |||||||||
| 19 | Evenden, Reg | 0 | 27y 85d | 72 | 13 | |||||||||
| 5 | Grove, Ron | 0 | 26y 319d | 69 | 32 | |||||||||
| 9 | Hand, Pat | 0 | 22y 188d | 38 | 2 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hickey, Harry | 1 | 28y 275d | 124 | 138 | |||||||||
| 27 | McCankie, Len | 0 | 21y 163d | 63 | 0 | |||||||||
| 21 | McLaren, George | 0 | 21y 29d | 34 | 1 | |||||||||
| 14 | Miller, Jim | 0 | 26y 325d | 96 | 25 | |||||||||
| 29 | Moncrieff, Allan | 1 | 22y 32d | 14 | 25 | |||||||||
| 15 | Morrison, Alby | 0 | 37y 81d | 205 | 364 | |||||||||
| 3 | Olliver, Arthur | 3 | 29y 131d | 181 | 212 | |||||||||
| 11 | Rees, Evan | 0 | 22y 257d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 10 | Ryan, Joe | 1 | 28y 205d | 126 | 209 | |||||||||
| 6 | Sutton, Charlie | 0 | 22y 17d | 9 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1 | Thoms, Jim | 1 | 27y 330d | 102 | 52 | |||||||||
| 25 | Tribe, Tom | 0 | 27y 75d | 95 | 5 | |||||||||
| 4 | Ware, Norm | 3 | 35y 46d | 187 | 190 | |||||||||
| 11 | Weldon, Joe | 0 | 23y 306d | 8 | 3 | |||||||||
| 28 | Wood, Bill | 3 | 24y 162d | 16 | 54 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 10 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 15 | 10 | 26y 155d | 1559 | 1489 | |||||||||
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 25 | Abbott, Gordon | 0 | 31y 206d | 109 | 62 | |||||||||
| 23 | Brittingham, Bill | 5 | 22y 227d | 35 | 56 | |||||||||
| 35 | Bushby, Percy | 1 | 26y 328d | 93 | 39 | |||||||||
| 15 | Buttsworth, Wally | 0 | 29y 89d | 120 | 2 | |||||||||
| 19 | Cassin, Jack | 1 | 30y 293d | 130 | 117 | |||||||||
| 18 | Gardiner, Les | 0 | 23y 85d | 32 | 0 | |||||||||
| 6 | Hassell, George | 0 | 22y 197d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hutchison, Bill | 0 | 22y 357d | 69 | 72 | |||||||||
| 24 | Jones, Jack | 0 | 21y 164d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 27 | Jory, Ron | 1 | 20y 343d | 19 | 16 | |||||||||
| 14 | Lambert, Chris | 0 | 26y 39d | 45 | 15 | |||||||||
| 22 | Lane, Gordon | 0 | 24y 325d | 84 | 182 | |||||||||
| 26 | Lyons, Jack | 0 | 26y 136d | 18 | 3 | |||||||||
| 4 | Matheson, Allan | 2 | 20y 352d | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| 31 | McIvor, Ivor | 1 | 28y 216d | 7 | 6 | |||||||||
| 20 | Pearson, Bill | 0 | 23y 313d | 17 | 11 | |||||||||
| 2 | Rawle, Keith | 1 | 21y 173d | 28 | 25 | |||||||||
| 3 | Reynolds, Dick | 2 | 30y 304d | 215 | 309 | |||||||||
| 21 | Ruddell, Cec | 0 | 28y 332d | 67 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1 | Tonkes, Herbie | 0 | 25y 16d | 8 | 0 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 14 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 14 | 14 | 25y 170d | 1099 | 917 | |||||||||
Match highlights
George Hassell debuted for Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)Evan Rees debuted for Footscray (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Jack Jones debuted for Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)