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Essendon vs Melbourne
| Round: 5 Venue: Windy Hill Date: Sat, 23-05-1953 2:15 pm Crowd: 9,500 | |||||
| Essendon | 2.3.15 | 4.5.29 | 5.7.37 | 6.10.46 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| Melbourne | 2.2.14 | 5.2.32 | 6.3.39 | 9.3.57 | C: Norm Smith |
| ESS by 1 | MELB by 3 | MELB by 2 | MELB by 11 | ||
Match stats
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 19 | Bigelow, Doug | 0 | 24y 310d | 82 | 20 | |||||||||
| 2 | Booth, Stan | 2 | 19y 171d | 10 | 13 | |||||||||
| 20 | Carstairs, Jim | 0 | 23y 265d | 18 | 14 | |||||||||
| 1 | Clarke, Jack | 0 | 19y 313d | 25 | 3 | |||||||||
| 10 | Coleman, John | 2 | 24y 181d | 79 | 435 | |||||||||
| 13 | Gallagher, Fred | 0 | 22y 142d | 12 | 6 | |||||||||
| 18 | Gardiner, Les | 0 | 30y 118d | 157 | 0 | |||||||||
| 28 | Gilmore, Brian | 0 | 23y 173d | 11 | 2 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hutchison, Bill | 1 | 30y 25d | 210 | 357 | |||||||||
| 24 | Jones, Jack | 0 | 28y 197d | 148 | 140 | |||||||||
| 30 | Leek, Geoff | 1 | 21y 94d | 16 | 12 | |||||||||
| 32 | Mann, Lance | 0 | 22y 315d | 30 | 14 | |||||||||
| 25 | McConnell, Roy | 0 | 25y 275d | 78 | 0 | |||||||||
| 4 | McDonald, Norm | 0 | 27y 164d | 114 | 0 | |||||||||
| 29 | Monks, Ian | 0 | 21y 290d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 6 | Morris, Hugh | 0 | 21y 121d | 12 | 2 | |||||||||
| 16 | O'Sullivan, Peter | 0 | 21y 1d | 17 | 0 | |||||||||
| 9 | Sewell, Greg | 0 | 19y 327d | 12 | 0 | |||||||||
| 26 | Syme, Bob | 0 | 28y 174d | 103 | 52 | |||||||||
| 33 | Towner, John | 0 | 19y 185d | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 10 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 6 | 10 | 23y 302d | 1139 | 1071 | |||||||||
| Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 6 | Albiston, Ken | 1 | 26y 193d | 81 | 100 | |||||||||
| 10 | Arnold, Lance | 0 | 27y 17d | 119 | 84 | |||||||||
| 21 | Baker, Noel | 0 | 19y 152d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 30 | Beckwith, John | 0 | 20y 249d | 37 | 19 | |||||||||
| 19 | Carroll, Keith | 0 | 22y 59d | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | Case, Geoff | 0 | 17y 250d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 4 | Christie, Ken | 0 | 25y 268d | 34 | 7 | |||||||||
| 26 | Clarke, Noel | 0 | 22y 148d | 37 | 75 | |||||||||
| 1 | Cordner, Denis | 3 | 28y 329d | 79 | 64 | |||||||||
| 23 | Gloury, Leigh | 0 | 23y 240d | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| 3 | Marquis, Peter | 0 | 21y 71d | 4 | 0 | |||||||||
| 17 | McGivern, Geoff | 1 | 22y 147d | 54 | 33 | |||||||||
| 2 | McKenzie, Bob | 2 | 23y 155d | 87 | 187 | |||||||||
| 35 | McMahen, Noel | 0 | 26y 205d | 106 | 25 | |||||||||
| 38 | Melville, Ken | 0 | 22y 101d | 5 | 0 | |||||||||
| 24 | Morrow, Bill | 1 | 24y 230d | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| 12 | Spencer, Stuart | 0 | 21y 109d | 52 | 23 | |||||||||
| 33 | Thomson, Jack | 0 | 24y 118d | 54 | 42 | |||||||||
| 25 | Williams, Don | 0 | 17y 201d | 3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 37 | Woods, Mike | 1 | 26y 295d | 67 | 3 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 9 | 3 | 23y 86d | 830 | 667 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Ken Albiston kicked his 100th career V/AFL goal: Melbourne vs. Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R5)Geoff Case debuted for Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R5)