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Essendon vs South Melbourne
| Round: 8 Venue: Windy Hill Date: Sat, 04-06-1955 2:15 pm Crowd: 23,500 | |||||
| Essendon | 4.3.27 | 10.7.67 | 11.10.76 | 13.14.92 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| South Melbourne | 2.1.13 | 3.6.24 | 7.8.50 | 7.12.54 | C: Herbie Matthews |
| ESS by 14 | ESS by 43 | ESS by 26 | ESS by 38 | ||
Match stats
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 19 | Bigelow, Doug | 0 | 26y 322d | 120 | 23 | |||||||||
| 18 | Burgess, Reg | 0 | 20y 302d | 24 | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 | Carstairs, Jim | 0 | 25y 277d | 48 | 16 | |||||||||
| 1 | Clarke, Jack | 0 | 21y 325d | 60 | 6 | |||||||||
| 4 | Colliver, Barry | 0 | 20y 96d | 4 | 0 | |||||||||
| 6 | Dench, Doug | 0 | 25y 126d | 8 | 0 | |||||||||
| 12 | Diston, Morton | 0 | 19y 7d | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| 24 | Fox, Robert | 0 | 23y 214d | 8 | 5 | |||||||||
| 13 | Gallagher, Fred | 0 | 24y 154d | 35 | 11 | |||||||||
| 3 | Gill, John | 0 | 23y 46d | 65 | 43 | |||||||||
| 23 | Harrington, Jack | 0 | 24y 343d | 38 | 7 | |||||||||
| 14 | Heenan, Jim | 0 | 25y 16d | 40 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hutchison, Bill | 2 | 32y 37d | 248 | 423 | |||||||||
| 30 | Leek, Geoff | 0 | 23y 106d | 53 | 30 | |||||||||
| 25 | McConnell, Roy | 0 | 27y 287d | 112 | 0 | |||||||||
| 31 | Mitchell, Hugh | 9 | 20y 194d | 28 | 50 | |||||||||
| 29 | Monks, Ian | 1 | 23y 302d | 14 | 19 | |||||||||
| 16 | O'Sullivan, Peter | 0 | 23y 13d | 42 | 1 | |||||||||
| 34 | Pascoe, Mal | 0 | 22y 65d | 34 | 0 | |||||||||
| 9 | Sewell, Greg | 1 | 21y 339d | 51 | 2 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 14 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 13 | 14 | 23y 288d | 1036 | 638 | |||||||||
| South Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 4 | Atkinson, Bob | 2 | 25y 38d | 19 | 6 | |||||||||
| 11 | Dorgan, Jim | 0 | 24y 190d | 46 | 0 | |||||||||
| 34 | Ferguson, John | 0 | 24y 23d | 19 | 6 | |||||||||
| 29 | Garrick, Jack | 0 | 28y 317d | 113 | 22 | |||||||||
| 9 | Giles, Bob | 0 | 25y 13d | 60 | 2 | |||||||||
| 28 | Gillett, Ian | 0 | 26y 257d | 80 | 99 | |||||||||
| 2 | Goldsmith, Fred | 0 | 22y 288d | 49 | 4 | |||||||||
| 8 | Gunn, Bill | 0 | 23y 92d | 51 | 59 | |||||||||
| 1 | Keyter, Don | 2 | 23y 264d | 33 | 29 | |||||||||
| 27 | Lane, Eddie | 0 | 25y 344d | 80 | 105 | |||||||||
| 35 | Ledwidge, John | 0 | 20y 249d | 11 | 6 | |||||||||
| 15 | Leslie, Lewis | 0 | 21y 136d | 10 | 4 | |||||||||
| 36 | McCormack, Ken | 0 | 22y 137d | 19 | 1 | |||||||||
| 18 | McDonald, Gerry | 0 | 23y 312d | 21 | 0 | |||||||||
| 25 | McLaughlin, Hugh | 0 | 19y 234d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 10 | Pratt, Bob | 0 | 19y 72d | 5 | 9 | |||||||||
| 7 | Sibun, Mick | 0 | 26y 53d | 86 | 78 | |||||||||
| 17 | Star, Don | 0 | 23y 272d | 15 | 14 | |||||||||
| 32 | Taylor, Ron | 3 | 22y 319d | 14 | 9 | |||||||||
| 20 | Trethowan, John | 0 | 18y 219d | 6 | 0 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 12 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 7 | 12 | 23y 155d | 738 | 453 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Hugh Mitchell kicked 9 goals for Essendon against South Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R8)Hugh McLaughlin, Jnr debuted for South Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R8)