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Footscray vs Essendon
| Round: 2 Venue: Western Oval Date: Sat, 04-05-1940 2:45 pm Crowd: 25,000 | |||||
| Footscray | 6.2.38 | 7.3.45 | 13.8.86 | 17.9.111 | C: Joe Kelly |
| Essendon | 1.1.7 | 5.5.35 | 7.6.48 | 9.12.66 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| FOOTS by 31 | FOOTS by 10 | FOOTS by 38 | FOOTS by 45 | ||
Match stats
| Footscray | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 5 | Bennett, George | 0 | 28y 225d | 154 | 16 | |||||||||
| 2 | Collins, Alan | 1 | 20y 182d | 20 | 21 | |||||||||
| 15 | Ellis, Ted | 0 | 27y 71d | 87 | 41 | |||||||||
| 19 | Evenden, Reg | 0 | 21y 100d | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| 13 | Flanigan, Bob | 0 | 26y 40d | 45 | 1 | |||||||||
| 20 | Greenham, Jim | 0 | 24y 170d | 36 | 24 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hickey, Harry | 0 | 22y 290d | 40 | 52 | |||||||||
| 27 | May, Jim | 2 | 30y 19d | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 14 | Miller, Jim | 0 | 20y 340d | 29 | 7 | |||||||||
| 21 | Murphy, Len | 0 | 30y 163d | 174 | 105 | |||||||||
| 3 | Olliver, Arthur | 2 | 23y 146d | 81 | 149 | |||||||||
| 26 | Page, Charlie | 5 | 23y 63d | 18 | 48 | |||||||||
| 24 | Palmer, Ambrose | 0 | 29y 201d | 40 | 16 | |||||||||
| 10 | Ryan, Bill | 0 | 25y 282d | 15 | 9 | |||||||||
| 10 | Ryan, Joe | 3 | 22y 220d | 40 | 61 | |||||||||
| 17 | Ryan, Leo | 0 | 26y 252d | 90 | 2 | |||||||||
| 28 | Sampson, Alf | 0 | 27y 343d | 35 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1 | Thoms, Jim | 4 | 21y 345d | 26 | 30 | |||||||||
| 4 | Ware, Norm | 0 | 29y 60d | 131 | 83 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 9 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 17 | 9 | 25y 146d | 1073 | 669 | |||||||||
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 24 | Begley, Les | 0 | 23y 203d | 31 | 22 | |||||||||
| 15 | Buttsworth, Wally | 0 | 23y 104d | 14 | 0 | |||||||||
| 5 | Caesar, Jack | 0 | 23y 120d | 30 | 8 | |||||||||
| 19 | Cassin, Jack | 0 | 24y 308d | 54 | 35 | |||||||||
| 4 | Exelby, Murray | 2 | 27y 206d | 54 | 41 | |||||||||
| 26 | Green, Fred | 0 | 19y 59d | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| 33 | Griggs, Les | 0 | 25y 364d | 48 | 14 | |||||||||
| 18 | Lambert, Chris | 4 | 20y 53d | 5 | 5 | |||||||||
| 11 | Luff, Bill | 0 | 30y 131d | 77 | 37 | |||||||||
| 10 | Maynes, Leo | 0 | 28y 334d | 47 | 9 | |||||||||
| 25 | Pattinson, George | 0 | 25y 364d | 60 | 15 | |||||||||
| 8 | Plummer, Elton | 0 | 25y 278d | 47 | 1 | |||||||||
| 3 | Reynolds, Dick | 1 | 1 | 24y 319d | 113 | 145 | ||||||||
| 29 | Reynolds, Tom | 2 | 23y 165d | 43 | 157 | |||||||||
| 21 | Ruddell, Cec | 0 | 22y 347d | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
| 23 | Smith, Max | 0 | 24y 135d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 2 | Smith, Ron | 0 | 25y 243d | 4 | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 | Torney, Hugh | 0 | 30y 172d | 106 | 56 | |||||||||
| 28 | Watts, Ray | 0 | 22y 265d | 42 | 114 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 11 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 9 | 12 | 24y 334d | 787 | 661 | |||||||||