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Essendon vs South Melbourne
| Round: 1 Venue: Windy Hill Date: Sat, 19-04-1947 2:45 pm Crowd: 19,000 | |||||
| Essendon | 3.7.25 | 5.10.40 | 10.17.77 | 16.23.119 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| South Melbourne | 3.1.19 | 6.4.40 | 8.4.52 | 10.8.68 | C: Bill Adams |
| ESS by 6 | Scores level | ESS by 25 | ESS by 51 | ||
Match stats
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 25 | Abbott, Gordon | 1 | 32y 205d | 129 | 67 | |||||||||
| 23 | Brittingham, Bill | 0 | 23y 226d | 56 | 117 | |||||||||
| 35 | Bushby, Percy | 1 | 27y 327d | 113 | 42 | |||||||||
| 15 | Buttsworth, Wally | 0 | 30y 88d | 142 | 2 | |||||||||
| 32 | Equid, Harry | 1 | 23y 193d | 23 | 39 | |||||||||
| 18 | Gardiner, Les | 0 | 24y 84d | 54 | 0 | |||||||||
| 8 | Harper, Bert | 0 | 24y 83d | 22 | 18 | |||||||||
| 28 | Hill, Russell | 0 | 27y 41d | 8 | 1 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hutchison, Bill | 4 | 23y 356d | 90 | 122 | |||||||||
| 24 | Jones, Jack | 0 | 22y 163d | 21 | 16 | |||||||||
| 14 | Lambert, Chris | 0 | 27y 38d | 59 | 17 | |||||||||
| 22 | Lane, Gordon | 1 | 25y 324d | 105 | 215 | |||||||||
| 9 | Leehane, Ted | 3 | 23y 321d | 18 | 22 | |||||||||
| 12 | May, Wally | 0 | 20y 220d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 31 | McClure, Bob | 0 | 21y 318d | 9 | 4 | |||||||||
| 20 | Pearson, Bill | 1 | 24y 312d | 35 | 19 | |||||||||
| 17 | Powell, Ray | 0 | 23y 255d | 46 | 68 | |||||||||
| 2 | Rawle, Keith | 3 | 22y 172d | 49 | 46 | |||||||||
| 3 | Reynolds, Dick | 1 | 31y 303d | 236 | 341 | |||||||||
| 21 | Ruddell, Cec | 0 | 29y 331d | 86 | 0 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 23 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 16 | 23 | 25y 218d | 1302 | 1156 | |||||||||
| South Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 7 | Allen, George | 1 | 18y 364d | 5 | 7 | |||||||||
| 32 | Bywater, Ron | 0 | 28y 101d | 11 | 4 | |||||||||
| 8 | Castles, Vic | 1 | 29y 105d | 88 | 125 | |||||||||
| 33 | Chambers, Wylie | 1 | 18y 197d | 12 | 2 | |||||||||
| 20 | Cleary, Jim | 0 | 32y 280d | 200 | 6 | |||||||||
| 1 | Danckert, Jack | 0 | 24y 283d | 10 | 0 | |||||||||
| 30 | Dempsey, Jack | 0 | 27y 206d | 45 | 12 | |||||||||
| 27 | Graham, Jack | 2 | 30y 347d | 190 | 167 | |||||||||
| 17 | Grossman, Don | 0 | 26y 113d | 76 | 28 | |||||||||
| 12 | King, Billy | 0 | 26y 245d | 102 | 14 | |||||||||
| 37 | Lucas, Bert | 0 | 25y 16d | 19 | 7 | |||||||||
| 19 | Mears, Harry | 1 | 24y 354d | 78 | 94 | |||||||||
| 16 | Piggott, Max | 0 | 26y 303d | 5 | 10 | |||||||||
| 14 | Richards, Reg | 2 | 29y 126d | 111 | 56 | |||||||||
| 11 | Ritchie, Rex | 0 | 32y 116d | 77 | 1 | |||||||||
| 29 | Roulent, Tom | 1 | 29y 68d | 97 | 27 | |||||||||
| 22 | Schaefer, Keith | 0 | 18y 120d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 28 | Strang, Allan | 1 | 25y 190d | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 21 | Tippett, Peter | 0 | 20y 195d | 21 | 2 | |||||||||
| 4 | Williams, Billy | 0 | 21y 218d | 40 | 37 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 10 | 8 | 25y 325d | 1189 | 600 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Tom Roulent played his 100th V/AFL game: South Melbourne vs. Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)Wally May debuted for Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)
Keith Schaefer debuted for South Melbourne (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)