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Essendon vs Melbourne
| Round: 1 Venue: Windy Hill Date: Sat, 09-05-1942 2:45 pm Crowd: 8,000 | |||||
| Essendon | 7.3.45 | 12.7.79 | 18.11.119 | 25.14.164 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| Melbourne | 3.4.22 | 6.7.43 | 11.8.74 | 16.14.110 | C: Percy Beames |
| ESS by 23 | ESS by 36 | ESS by 45 | ESS by 54 | ||
Match stats
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 25 | Abbott, Gordon | 0 | 27y 225d | 69 | 39 | |||||||||
| 31 | Betson, Norm | 0 | 27y 305d | 16 | 16 | |||||||||
| 9 | Bryce, Ted | 2 | 29y 139d | 97 | 110 | |||||||||
| 35 | Bushby, Percy | 1 | 22y 347d | 21 | 16 | |||||||||
| 15 | Buttsworth, Wally | 0 | 25y 108d | 52 | 1 | |||||||||
| 19 | Cassin, Jack | 3 | 26y 312d | 85 | 76 | |||||||||
| 1 | Coward, Ernie | 0 | 26y 102d | 47 | 10 | |||||||||
| 10 | Dearle, Laurie | 2 | 22y 205d | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| 16 | Evans, Joe | 0 | 22y 19d | 15 | 1 | |||||||||
| 4 | Exelby, Murray | 5 | 29y 210d | 85 | 81 | |||||||||
| 30 | Flanigan, Bob | 0 | 28y 45d | 61 | 2 | |||||||||
| 6 | Hird, Allan | 0 | 23y 271d | 42 | 12 | |||||||||
| 22 | Lane, Gordon | 4 | 20y 344d | 21 | 60 | |||||||||
| 8 | Plummer, Elton | 0 | 27y 282d | 87 | 1 | |||||||||
| 3 | Reynolds, Dick | 2 | 26y 323d | 149 | 202 | |||||||||
| 29 | Reynolds, Tom | 6 | 25y 169d | 77 | 265 | |||||||||
| 21 | Ruddell, Cec | 0 | 24y 351d | 16 | 0 | |||||||||
| 28 | Silk, Sid | 0 | 21y 22d | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 | Torney, Hugh | 0 | 32y 176d | 141 | 60 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 14 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 25 | 14 | 25y 323d | 1084 | 954 | |||||||||
| Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 14 | Archibald, George | 0 | 22y 215d | 3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 15 | Baggott, Ron | 4 | 25y 113d | 111 | 268 | |||||||||
| 24 | Beames, Percy | 1 | 30y 286d | 168 | 271 | |||||||||
| 21 | Cordner, Don | 0 | 20y 108d | 3 | 0 | |||||||||
| 27 | Deayton, Frank | 0 | 20y 341d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 2 | Dowsing, Roy | 1 | 26y 198d | 29 | 33 | |||||||||
| 34 | Dullard, Adrian | 0 | 24y 117d | 21 | 13 | |||||||||
| 5 | Fanning, Fred | 1 | 20y 185d | 6 | 6 | |||||||||
| 10 | Gibb, Maurie | 2 | 28y 91d | 107 | 156 | |||||||||
| 8 | Hewson, Don | 0 | 22y 193d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 17 | La Fontaine, Allan | 2 | 31y 145d | 146 | 69 | |||||||||
| 13 | Lenne, George | 0 | 26y 78d | 8 | 3 | |||||||||
| 11 | Matthews, Norm | 0 | 26y 252d | 30 | 6 | |||||||||
| 12 | Mueller, Jack | 3 | 26y 242d | 140 | 207 | |||||||||
| 29 | O'Keefe, Jack | 0 | 26y 222d | 42 | 25 | |||||||||
| 19 | Shearer, Ray | 0 | 17y 235d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 4 | Smith, Norm | 2 | 26y 169d | 113 | 388 | |||||||||
| 18 | Walsh, Darcy | 0 | 23y 261d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 23 | Wartman, Ray | 0 | 27y 100d | 125 | 61 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 14 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 16 | 14 | 24y 360d | 1056 | 1506 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Laurie Dearle debuted for Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)Ray Wartman played his last game for Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)