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Footscray vs Essendon
| Round: 15 Venue: Western Oval Date: Sat, 05-08-1950 2:15 pm Crowd: 13,000 | |||||
| Footscray | 7.6.48 | 8.6.54 | 10.8.68 | 10.9.69 | C: Arthur Olliver |
| Essendon | 0.2.2 | 4.7.31 | 5.7.37 | 10.11.71 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| FOOTS by 46 | FOOTS by 23 | FOOTS by 31 | ESS by 2 | ||
Match stats
| Footscray | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 30 | Abbey, Angus | 0 | 24y 263d | 23 | 0 | |||||||||
| 18 | Bryden, Dave | 2 | 23y 43d | 54 | 10 | |||||||||
| 17 | Bulman, Alan | 0 | 22y 321d | 26 | 8 | |||||||||
| 2 | Collins, Jack | 0 | 20y 214d | 14 | 8 | |||||||||
| 22 | Donald, Wally | 0 | 23y 70d | 73 | 0 | |||||||||
| 8 | Egan, Reg | 0 | 23y 103d | 13 | 22 | |||||||||
| 1 | Henderson, Don | 3 | 20y 23d | 13 | 12 | |||||||||
| 15 | Hutcheson, Morrie | 0 | 22y 167d | 5 | 0 | |||||||||
| 12 | Laffey, Merv | 1 | 25y 33d | 58 | 66 | |||||||||
| 32 | McDonnell, Marty | 0 | 29y 220d | 89 | 2 | |||||||||
| 21 | McLaren, George | 0 | 25y 136d | 119 | 20 | |||||||||
| 16 | McRae, Frank | 0 | 23y 2d | 8 | 1 | |||||||||
| 24 | Miller, Tom | 0 | 22y 33d | 31 | 3 | |||||||||
| 3 | Olliver, Arthur | 2 | 33y 238d | 269 | 351 | |||||||||
| 20 | Reardon, Bill | 0 | 21y 279d | 12 | 4 | |||||||||
| 31 | Rees, Evan | 0 | 26y 364d | 77 | 2 | |||||||||
| 23 | Reid, Bruce | 0 | 21y 100d | 23 | 13 | |||||||||
| 26 | Scanlan, Bill | 1 | 25y 211d | 83 | 43 | |||||||||
| 6 | Sutton, Charlie | 1 | 26y 124d | 97 | 9 | |||||||||
| 33 | Wearmouth, Dick | 0 | 24y 85d | 67 | 23 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 9 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 10 | 9 | 24y 96d | 1154 | 597 | |||||||||
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 33 | Allanson, Noel | 0 | 24y 223d | 51 | 0 | |||||||||
| 19 | Bigelow, Doug | 1 | 22y 19d | 46 | 17 | |||||||||
| 27 | Bradley, Bob | 0 | 25y 329d | 61 | 5 | |||||||||
| 23 | Brittingham, Bill | 0 | 26y 334d | 129 | 180 | |||||||||
| 10 | Coleman, John | 3 | 21y 255d | 35 | 187 | |||||||||
| 2 | Collins, Jack | 0 | 25y 88d | 40 | 36 | |||||||||
| 15 | Dale, Alan | 0 | 20y 264d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 18 | Gardiner, Les | 0 | 27y 192d | 113 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hutchison, Bill | 1 | 27y 99d | 164 | 282 | |||||||||
| 24 | Jones, Jack | 0 | 25y 271d | 101 | 105 | |||||||||
| 9 | Leehane, Ted | 1 | 27y 64d | 82 | 140 | |||||||||
| 1 | Leehane, Tom | 0 | 22y 172d | 5 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1 | Martini, Ray | 0 | 20y 22d | 3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 31 | McClure, Bob | 0 | 25y 61d | 83 | 17 | |||||||||
| 4 | McDonald, Norm | 0 | 24y 238d | 72 | 0 | |||||||||
| 11 | McEwin, Ron | 0 | 22y 216d | 34 | 23 | |||||||||
| 35 | Payne, Fred | 0 | 23y 182d | 11 | 3 | |||||||||
| 3 | Reynolds, Dick | 0 | 35y 46d | 314 | 433 | |||||||||
| 22 | Snell, Bill | 0 | 23y 135d | 15 | 1 | |||||||||
| 16 | Tate, Greg | 4 | 24y 288d | 48 | 59 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 11 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 10 | 11 | 24y 302d | 1408 | 1488 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Essendon won from 46 points down at QT vs. Footscray (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R15)Essendon won from 31 points down at 3QT vs. Footscray (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R15)