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North Melbourne vs Essendon
| Round: 1 Venue: Arden Street Date: Sat, 15-04-1961 2:15 pm Crowd: 24,000 | |||||
| North Melbourne | 1.2.8 | 5.6.36 | 6.6.42 | 8.10.58 | C: Wally Carter |
| Essendon | 3.5.23 | 4.6.30 | 6.11.47 | 6.13.49 | C: John Coleman |
| ESS by 15 | NTH by 6 | ESS by 5 | NTH by 9 | ||
Match stats
| North Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 17 | Aylett, Allen | 3 | 26y 356d | 159 | 225 | |||||||||
| 30 | Carr, Alan | 0 | 21y 359d | 12 | 7 | |||||||||
| 19 | Cheatley, Barry | 0 | 22y 98d | 16 | 1 | |||||||||
| 10 | Dalgleish, John | 0 | 20y 279d | 7 | 1 | |||||||||
| 9 | Dean, Ken | 0 | 22y 248d | 59 | 2 | |||||||||
| 33 | Dow, Peter | 0 | 21y 186d | 12 | 7 | |||||||||
| 6 | Dugdale, John | 4 | 25y 38d | 87 | 177 | |||||||||
| 27 | Dwyer, Laurie | 0 | 22y 160d | 68 | 9 | |||||||||
| 14 | Eastmure, Gerald | 1 | 26y 54d | 107 | 117 | |||||||||
| 18 | Fyffe, Ken | 0 | 23y 32d | 35 | 3 | |||||||||
| 29 | Gaudion, Michael | 0 | 22y 299d | 48 | 22 | |||||||||
| 5 | Jenkins, John | 0 | 25y 54d | 58 | 47 | |||||||||
| 7 | Mantello, Albert | 0 | 26y 350d | 102 | 24 | |||||||||
| 31 | Poole, Robin | 0 | 23y 95d | 23 | 0 | |||||||||
| 23 | Railton, Denis | 0 | 20y 108d | 13 | 0 | |||||||||
| 11 | Robertson, Keith | 0 | 22y 170d | 21 | 3 | |||||||||
| 22 | Robinson, Fred | 0 | 21y 306d | 5 | 2 | |||||||||
| 35 | Ryan, Graham | 0 | 20y 230d | 11 | 0 | |||||||||
| 21 | Snell, Ken | 0 | 18y 243d | 8 | 4 | |||||||||
| 2 | Teasdale, Noel | 0 | 23y 103d | 72 | 24 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 10 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 8 | 10 | 22y 335d | 923 | 675 | |||||||||
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 11 | Birt, Johnny | 0 | 24y 76d | 76 | 111 | |||||||||
| 14 | Blew, Russell | 0 | 19y 159d | 5 | 0 | |||||||||
| 12 | Capuano, Barry | 0 | 20y 140d | 30 | 3 | |||||||||
| 1 | Clarke, Jack | 1 | 27y 275d | 157 | 77 | |||||||||
| 36 | Doran, Paul | 0 | 21y 144d | 12 | 10 | |||||||||
| 3 | Dunlop, Bob | 2 | 25y 128d | 20 | 22 | |||||||||
| 28 | Epis, Alec | 0 | 23y 231d | 48 | 1 | |||||||||
| 8 | Evans, Ron | 0 | 21y 282d | 49 | 172 | |||||||||
| 20 | Fordham, Ted | 1 | 20y 347d | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 23 | Fraser, Ken | 0 | 21y 57d | 57 | 21 | |||||||||
| 4 | Hebbard, Col | 0 | 24y 156d | 68 | 22 | |||||||||
| 30 | Leek, Geoff | 0 | 29y 56d | 155 | 87 | |||||||||
| 31 | Mitchell, Hugh | 1 | 26y 144d | 120 | 171 | |||||||||
| 29 | Peucker, Ken | 0 | 26y 72d | 60 | 68 | |||||||||
| 34 | Sampson, Brian | 0 | 20y 59d | 21 | 2 | |||||||||
| 9 | Sewell, Greg | 0 | 27y 289d | 154 | 34 | |||||||||
| 5 | Shaw, David | 1 | 22y 168d | 36 | 11 | |||||||||
| 10 | Shelton, Ian | 0 | 21y 50d | 29 | 0 | |||||||||
| 19 | Somerville, John | 0 | 21y 128d | 12 | 8 | |||||||||
| 25 | Timms, Ken | 0 | 22y 266d | 50 | 24 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 13 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 6 | 13 | 23y 144d | 1160 | 845 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Ted Fordham debuted for Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)Ken Peucker played his last game for Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)