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Essendon vs South Melbourne
| Round: 1 Venue: Windy Hill Date: Sat, 08-05-1943 2:45 pm Crowd: 16,000 | |||||
| Essendon | 3.3.21 | 11.5.71 | 14.7.91 | 18.9.117 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| South Melbourne | 6.4.40 | 8.7.55 | 10.10.70 | 13.14.92 | C: Joe Kelly |
| SM by 19 | ESS by 16 | ESS by 21 | ESS by 25 | ||
Match stats
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 25 | Abbott, Gordon | 0 | 28y 224d | 84 | 46 | |||||||||
| 31 | Betson, Norm | 0 | 28y 304d | 25 | 23 | |||||||||
| 35 | Bushby, Percy | 1 | 23y 346d | 39 | 19 | |||||||||
| 15 | Buttsworth, Wally | 0 | 26y 107d | 70 | 1 | |||||||||
| 19 | Cassin, Jack | 1 | 27y 311d | 97 | 92 | |||||||||
| 1 | Coward, Ernie | 0 | 27y 101d | 64 | 10 | |||||||||
| 10 | Dearle, Laurie | 0 | 23y 204d | 11 | 7 | |||||||||
| 11 | Gardiner, Les | 0 | 20y 103d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 12 | Harper, Bert | 1 | 20y 102d | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 6 | Hird, Allan | 0 | 24y 270d | 60 | 12 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hutchison, Bill | 2 | 20y 10d | 12 | 7 | |||||||||
| 22 | Lane, Gordon | 6 | 21y 343d | 37 | 106 | |||||||||
| 14 | Leehane, Ted | 2 | 19y 340d | 13 | 14 | |||||||||
| 8 | Plummer, Elton | 0 | 28y 281d | 105 | 1 | |||||||||
| 17 | Powell, Ray | 0 | 19y 274d | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2 | Rawle, Keith | 2 | 18y 191d | 12 | 9 | |||||||||
| 3 | Reynolds, Dick | 3 | 27y 322d | 166 | 230 | |||||||||
| 21 | Ruddell, Cec | 0 | 25y 350d | 33 | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 | Torney, Hugh | 0 | 33y 175d | 157 | 67 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 9 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 18 | 9 | 24y 229d | 991 | 646 | |||||||||
| South Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 27 | Benison, Alf | 0 | 24y 321d | 35 | 29 | |||||||||
| 10 | Butcher, Jack | 1 | 28y 192d | 80 | 19 | |||||||||
| 8 | Castles, Vic | 1 | 25y 124d | 18 | 24 | |||||||||
| 20 | Cleary, Jim | 0 | 28y 299d | 138 | 5 | |||||||||
| 22 | Graham, Jack | 0 | 27y 1d | 120 | 96 | |||||||||
| 29 | Hacker, Jack | 0 | 29y 19d | 87 | 1 | |||||||||
| 15 | Hazelwood, Les | 0 | 22y 241d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 16 | Icke, Bill | 0 | 22y 117d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 5 | Kelly, Brian | 0 | 25y 284d | 43 | 13 | |||||||||
| 12 | King, Billy | 1 | 22y 264d | 35 | 5 | |||||||||
| 23 | Leith, Merv | 1 | 20y 291d | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 1 | Matthews, Herbie | 0 | 29y 177d | 161 | 16 | |||||||||
| 17 | Mitchell, Alex | 0 | 30y 357d | 55 | 34 | |||||||||
| 31 | Moloney, George | 1 | 19y 62d | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 3 | Patterson, Fred | 0 | 27y 127d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 9 | Smith, Keith | 1 | 28y 342d | 61 | 21 | |||||||||
| 6 | Taylor, Percy | 4 | 24y 28d | 26 | 25 | |||||||||
| 7 | White, Lindsay | 3 | 21y 123d | 34 | 150 | |||||||||
| 32 | Williams, Jack | 0 | 25y 325d | 12 | 0 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 14 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 13 | 14 | 25y 194d | 910 | 440 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Bert Harper debuted for Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)Les Gardiner debuted for Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)