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Essendon vs Footscray
| Round: 8 Venue: Windy Hill Date: Mon, 04-06-1956 2:15 pm Crowd: 31,500 | |||||
| Essendon | 4.2.26 | 6.6.42 | 8.6.54 | 12.11.83 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| Footscray | 4.5.29 | 6.11.47 | 12.19.91 | 14.23.107 | C: Charlie Sutton |
| FOOTS by 3 | FOOTS by 5 | FOOTS by 37 | FOOTS by 24 | ||
Match stats
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 19 | Bigelow, Doug | 0 | 27y 323d | 139 | 27 | |||||||||
| 18 | Burgess, Reg | 0 | 21y 303d | 43 | 2 | |||||||||
| 1 | Clarke, Jack | 1 | 22y 326d | 76 | 15 | |||||||||
| 6 | Dench, Doug | 0 | 26y 127d | 23 | 0 | |||||||||
| 12 | Diston, Morton | 0 | 20y 7d | 7 | 2 | |||||||||
| 24 | Fox, Robert | 0 | 24y 215d | 26 | 30 | |||||||||
| 13 | Gallagher, Fred | 0 | 25y 155d | 51 | 11 | |||||||||
| 3 | Gill, John | 0 | 24y 46d | 80 | 56 | |||||||||
| 23 | Harrington, Jack | 0 | 25y 344d | 56 | 11 | |||||||||
| 14 | Heenan, Jim | 0 | 26y 16d | 58 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hutchison, Bill | 0 | 33y 37d | 267 | 458 | |||||||||
| 21 | Knowles, Jack | 0 | 24y 123d | 44 | 0 | |||||||||
| 30 | Leek, Geoff | 0 | 24y 107d | 70 | 32 | |||||||||
| 4 | Lynch, Fred | 0 | 20y 25d | 6 | 0 | |||||||||
| 25 | McConnell, Roy | 0 | 28y 288d | 130 | 0 | |||||||||
| 31 | Mitchell, Hugh | 2 | 21y 195d | 47 | 82 | |||||||||
| 17 | Nixon, Max | 1 | 24y 163d | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| 34 | Pascoe, Mal | 4 | 23y 65d | 48 | 10 | |||||||||
| 9 | Sewell, Greg | 0 | 22y 340d | 70 | 15 | |||||||||
| 16 | Willey, Graham | 4 | 22y 321d | 7 | 16 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 11 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 12 | 11 | 24y 194d | 1251 | 768 | |||||||||
| Footscray | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 5 | Box, Peter | 0 | 24y 74d | 82 | 36 | |||||||||
| 2 | Collins, Jack | 2 | 26y 153d | 108 | 239 | |||||||||
| 8 | Cross, Max | 4 | 21y 329d | 4 | 14 | |||||||||
| 18 | Dickson, Noel | 1 | 22y 160d | 8 | 6 | |||||||||
| 22 | Donald, Wally | 0 | 29y 8d | 175 | 1 | |||||||||
| 7 | Duffy, Roger | 0 | 24y 252d | 77 | 85 | |||||||||
| 11 | Edwards, Arthur | 0 | 22y 0d | 63 | 23 | |||||||||
| 34 | Gilmore, Brian | 0 | 22y 332d | 69 | 52 | |||||||||
| 36 | Guthrie, Byron | 0 | 20y 159d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 25 | Henderson, Herb | 0 | 25y 265d | 97 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1 | Kerr, John | 2 | 21y 325d | 54 | 69 | |||||||||
| 21 | Porta, Ron | 0 | 20y 1d | 17 | 1 | |||||||||
| 33 | Rawson, Don | 0 | 19y 143d | 4 | 0 | |||||||||
| 28 | Reynolds, Doug | 0 | 22y 274d | 54 | 15 | |||||||||
| 9 | Ross, Don | 1 | 22y 105d | 82 | 10 | |||||||||
| 31 | Ryan, Lionel | 1 | 21y 22d | 26 | 12 | |||||||||
| 17 | Stockman, Ron | 0 | 21y 290d | 46 | 1 | |||||||||
| 10 | Westacott, John | 0 | 22y 300d | 9 | 0 | |||||||||
| 38 | White, Kevin | 0 | 23y 75d | 8 | 0 | |||||||||
| 3 | Whitten, Ted | 3 | 22y 313d | 90 | 52 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 23 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 14 | 23 | 22y 325d | 1074 | 616 | |||||||||