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Footscray vs Essendon
| Round: 8 Venue: Western Oval Date: Sat, 31-05-1958 2:15 pm Crowd: 29,118 | |||||
| Footscray | 5.5.35 | 8.8.56 | 14.10.94 | 16.11.107 | C: Ted Whitten |
| Essendon | 3.4.22 | 6.6.42 | 10.9.69 | 13.14.92 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| FOOTS by 13 | FOOTS by 14 | FOOTS by 25 | FOOTS by 15 | ||
Match stats
| Footscray | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 41 | Anderson, Lyall | 0 | 21y 230d | 11 | 2 | |||||||||
| 37 | Broadway, Ray | 0 | 20y 125d | 7 | 0 | |||||||||
| 19 | Buckley, Brian | 0 | 23y 63d | 17 | 3 | |||||||||
| 6 | Clark, Bobby | 0 | 17y 307d | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2 | Collins, Jack | 7 | 28y 148d | 144 | 355 | |||||||||
| 5 | Connolly, Barry | 1 | 19y 274d | 7 | 12 | |||||||||
| 7 | Duffy, Roger | 1 | 26y 247d | 110 | 114 | |||||||||
| 11 | Edwards, Arthur | 0 | 23y 361d | 96 | 26 | |||||||||
| 24 | Gallagher, Jim | 0 | 27y 76d | 117 | 0 | |||||||||
| 12 | Gardiner, Alex | 1 | 23y 148d | 26 | 6 | |||||||||
| 25 | Henderson, Herb | 0 | 27y 260d | 125 | 0 | |||||||||
| 31 | Howard, Ron | 1 | 18y 138d | 8 | 9 | |||||||||
| 40 | Jillard, John | 0 | 17y 64d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 1 | Kerr, Barrie | 0 | 20y 121d | 9 | 7 | |||||||||
| 21 | Porta, Ron | 0 | 21y 362d | 48 | 1 | |||||||||
| 15 | Quarrell, John | 1 | 20y 129d | 15 | 1 | |||||||||
| 9 | Ross, Don | 0 | 24y 100d | 119 | 20 | |||||||||
| 32 | Schultz, John | 1 | 19y 245d | 8 | 9 | |||||||||
| 30 | Whitten, Don | 0 | 22y 257d | 14 | 3 | |||||||||
| 3 | Whitten, Ted | 3 | 24y 308d | 122 | 76 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 11 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 16 | 11 | 22y 180d | 1009 | 645 | |||||||||
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 11 | Birt, Johnny | 2 | 21y 122d | 28 | 43 | |||||||||
| 2 | Booth, Stan | 2 | 24y 179d | 99 | 118 | |||||||||
| 20 | Box, Bill | 1 | 19y 354d | 3 | 2 | |||||||||
| 18 | Burgess, Reg | 0 | 23y 298d | 77 | 7 | |||||||||
| 1 | Clarke, Jack | 0 | 24y 321d | 109 | 22 | |||||||||
| 26 | Donohoe, Brian | 0 | 21y 222d | 16 | 5 | |||||||||
| 23 | Fraser, Ken | 1 | 18y 103d | 7 | 1 | |||||||||
| 13 | Gallagher, Fred | 0 | 27y 150d | 80 | 60 | |||||||||
| 22 | Gamble, Jeff | 0 | 23y 7d | 66 | 14 | |||||||||
| 21 | Knowles, Jack | 0 | 26y 118d | 77 | 0 | |||||||||
| 30 | Leek, Geoff | 1 | 26y 102d | 107 | 56 | |||||||||
| 31 | Mitchell, Hugh | 1 | 23y 190d | 80 | 105 | |||||||||
| 15 | Murdoch, Alby | 0 | 23y 133d | 13 | 0 | |||||||||
| 24 | Parks, Kevin | 0 | 22y 326d | 8 | 0 | |||||||||
| 34 | Pascoe, Mal | 1 | 25y 61d | 84 | 28 | |||||||||
| 27 | Peucker, Ken | 0 | 23y 118d | 31 | 32 | |||||||||
| 9 | Sewell, Greg | 1 | 24y 335d | 106 | 18 | |||||||||
| 35 | Shearman, Bob | 0 | 18y 259d | 27 | 3 | |||||||||
| 25 | Timms, Ken | 3 | 19y 312d | 12 | 14 | |||||||||
| 36 | Yeo, Alby | 0 | 28y 206d | 5 | 0 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 14 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 13 | 14 | 23y 141d | 1035 | 528 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Jack Collins kicked 7 goals for Footscray against Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R8)John Jillard debuted for Footscray (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R8)