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Melbourne vs Collingwood
| Round: 7 Venue: M.C.G. Date: Sat, 26-05-1956 2:15 pm Crowd: 46,868 | |||||
| Melbourne | 1.1.7 | 5.8.38 | 7.10.52 | 11.13.79 | C: Norm Smith |
| Collingwood | 4.5.29 | 6.5.41 | 9.6.60 | 9.7.61 | C: Phonse Kyne |
| COLL by 22 | COLL by 3 | COLL by 8 | MELB by 18 | ||
Match stats
| Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 31 | Barassi, Ron | 2 | 20y 89d | 46 | 43 | |||||||||
| 30 | Beckwith, John | 0 | 23y 253d | 89 | 19 | |||||||||
| 29 | Bull, Tony | 0 | 26y 2d | 28 | 9 | |||||||||
| 19 | Carroll, Keith | 0 | 25y 62d | 26 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1 | Cordner, Denis | 0 | 31y 333d | 139 | 80 | |||||||||
| 9 | Dixon, Brian | 0 | 20y 6d | 29 | 10 | |||||||||
| 18 | Johnson, Bob | 2 | 20y 358d | 36 | 62 | |||||||||
| 14 | Johnson, Trevor | 0 | 21y 122d | 20 | 0 | |||||||||
| 16 | Laidlaw, Clyde | 0 | 22y 181d | 33 | 13 | |||||||||
| 34 | Lane, Ralph | 0 | 26y 71d | 61 | 9 | |||||||||
| 3 | Marquis, Peter | 0 | 24y 74d | 57 | 3 | |||||||||
| 17 | McGivern, Geoff | 0 | 25y 151d | 97 | 53 | |||||||||
| 35 | McMahen, Noel | 0 | 29y 209d | 163 | 26 | |||||||||
| 38 | Melville, Ken | 0 | 25y 105d | 58 | 0 | |||||||||
| 11 | Mithen, Laurie | 0 | 22y 41d | 37 | 34 | |||||||||
| 24 | Ridley, Ian | 4 | 22y 101d | 24 | 46 | |||||||||
| 8 | Sandral, Jim | 0 | 23y 97d | 3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 12 | Spencer, Stuart | 3 | 24y 113d | 110 | 117 | |||||||||
| 15 | Webb, Athol | 0 | 20y 256d | 15 | 22 | |||||||||
| 25 | Williams, Don | 0 | 20y 205d | 64 | 0 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 13 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 11 | 13 | 23y 288d | 1135 | 546 | |||||||||
| Collingwood | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 16 | Davidson, Max | 0 | 21y 301d | 3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 6 | Dorman, Brian | 0 | 18y 329d | 10 | 3 | |||||||||
| 13 | Gabelich, Ray | 0 | 22y 328d | 11 | 3 | |||||||||
| 14 | Gooch, Arthur | 0 | 25y 67d | 76 | 12 | |||||||||
| 7 | Greve, Bob | 0 | 21y 178d | 14 | 1 | |||||||||
| 8 | Hamilton, Jack | 0 | 27y 193d | 133 | 14 | |||||||||
| 18 | Hedt, Ken | 0 | 19y 193d | 6 | 0 | |||||||||
| 23 | Jones, Bill | 2 | 21y 60d | 31 | 28 | |||||||||
| 9 | Kingston, Ron | 0 | 24y 229d | 110 | 6 | |||||||||
| 3 | Lucas, Peter | 0 | 26y 185d | 115 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1 | Mann, Neil | 0 | 31y 274d | 170 | 142 | |||||||||
| 17 | Merrett, Thorold | 0 | 22y 239d | 105 | 68 | |||||||||
| 20 | Richards, Ron | 1 | 28y 15d | 133 | 113 | |||||||||
| 22 | Serong, Bill | 0 | 20y 21d | 7 | 6 | |||||||||
| 29 | Sharp, Lerrel | 0 | 22y 355d | 48 | 0 | |||||||||
| 5 | Smale, Ken | 3 | 22y 203d | 28 | 59 | |||||||||
| 24 | Tuck, Frank | 0 | 24y 307d | 73 | 15 | |||||||||
| 25 | Twomey, Mick | 0 | 24y 244d | 93 | 68 | |||||||||
| 27 | Weideman, Murray | 3 | 20y 100d | 45 | 48 | |||||||||
| 15 | Wylie, Kevin | 0 | 22y 191d | 12 | 12 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 9 | 7 | 23y 182d | 1223 | 599 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Mick Twomey played his 100th V/AFL game: Collingwood vs. Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R7)Arthur Gooch played his last game for Collingwood (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R7)