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Footscray vs Melbourne
| Round: 15 Venue: Western Oval Date: Sat, 08-08-1959 2:15 pm Crowd: 12,549 | |||||
| Footscray | 2.3.15 | 8.3.51 | 11.5.71 | 12.8.80 | C: Ted Whitten |
| Melbourne | 3.3.21 | 7.4.46 | 8.9.57 | 10.11.71 | C: Norm Smith |
| MELB by 6 | FOOTS by 5 | FOOTS by 14 | FOOTS by 9 | ||
Match stats
| Footscray | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 36 | Beamish, Keith | 0 | 18y 177d | 5 | 4 | |||||||||
| 33 | Brereton, John | 0 | 24y 304d | 10 | 0 | |||||||||
| 28 | Clegg, John | 0 | 20y 51d | 11 | 7 | |||||||||
| 2 | Devery, Terry | 2 | 21y 139d | 14 | 18 | |||||||||
| 11 | Edwards, Arthur | 0 | 25y 65d | 106 | 26 | |||||||||
| 27 | Edwards, Ralph | 0 | 24y 62d | 3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 24 | Gallagher, Jim | 0 | 28y 145d | 133 | 0 | |||||||||
| 12 | Gardiner, Alex | 0 | 24y 217d | 49 | 10 | |||||||||
| 23 | Hoiles, John | 0 | 20y 362d | 21 | 5 | |||||||||
| 17 | Ion, Graham | 2 | 18y 300d | 12 | 2 | |||||||||
| 25 | Jillard, John | 0 | 18y 133d | 17 | 0 | |||||||||
| 29 | Lee, Bernie | 0 | 22y 141d | 31 | 4 | |||||||||
| 27 | Moloney, Brian | 0 | 22y 4d | 15 | 1 | |||||||||
| 22 | Payne, Kelvin | 0 | 20y 174d | 29 | 5 | |||||||||
| 38 | Prior, Brian | 3 | 20y 329d | 9 | 4 | |||||||||
| 14 | Schultz, John | 0 | 20y 314d | 29 | 16 | |||||||||
| 8 | Spargo, Bob | 1 | 19y 297d | 13 | 12 | |||||||||
| 4 | Ware, Bob | 1 | 17y 350d | 13 | 19 | |||||||||
| 3 | Whitten, Ted | 3 | 26y 12d | 145 | 100 | |||||||||
| 35 | Wood, Peter | 0 | 19y 270d | 5 | 0 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 12 | 8 | 21y 283d | 670 | 233 | |||||||||
| Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 6 | Adams, Frank | 0 | 24y 57d | 85 | 85 | |||||||||
| 31 | Barassi, Ron | 1 | 23y 162d | 110 | 163 | |||||||||
| 7 | Case, Geoff | 0 | 23y 327d | 96 | 34 | |||||||||
| 9 | Dixon, Brian | 0 | 23y 80d | 97 | 20 | |||||||||
| 1 | Fenton-Smith, Dick | 0 | 27y 293d | 45 | 21 | |||||||||
| 16 | Johnson, Bob | 1 | 24y 66d | 100 | 190 | |||||||||
| 8 | Johnson, Bob 'Tassie' | 0 | 21y 249d | 15 | 0 | |||||||||
| 14 | Johnson, Trevor | 0 | 24y 195d | 81 | 8 | |||||||||
| 27 | Jones, Dennis | 0 | 22y 268d | 35 | 4 | |||||||||
| 35 | Laidlaw, Clyde | 0 | 25y 254d | 78 | 32 | |||||||||
| 4 | Lord, John | 0 | 22y 128d | 28 | 1 | |||||||||
| 29 | Mann, Harold 'Hassa' | 2 | 18y 302d | 12 | 18 | |||||||||
| 5 | McLean, Ian | 0 | 29y 346d | 137 | 29 | |||||||||
| 11 | Mithen, Laurie | 0 | 25y 115d | 94 | 45 | |||||||||
| 20 | Pinfold, Graeme | 3 | 23y 106d | 10 | 4 | |||||||||
| 24 | Ridley, Ian | 0 | 25y 174d | 91 | 162 | |||||||||
| 2 | Rowarth, Alan | 2 | 22y 349d | 22 | 27 | |||||||||
| 26 | Thorogood, Ian | 0 | 22y 348d | 42 | 1 | |||||||||
| 23 | Tunbridge, Geoff | 1 | 27y 123d | 53 | 70 | |||||||||
| 25 | Williams, Don | 0 | 23y 278d | 131 | 3 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 11 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 10 | 11 | 24y 64d | 1362 | 917 | |||||||||