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Essendon vs Carlton
| Round: 1 Venue: Windy Hill Date: Sat, 14-04-1956 2:15 pm Crowd: 30,000 | |||||
| Essendon | 1.3.9 | 4.6.30 | 7.9.51 | 9.13.67 | C: Dick Reynolds |
| Carlton | 1.1.7 | 4.1.25 | 4.7.31 | 5.9.39 | C: Jim Francis |
| ESS by 2 | ESS by 5 | ESS by 20 | ESS by 28 | ||
Match stats
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 19 | Bigelow, Doug | 0 | 27y 272d | 132 | 25 | |||||||||
| 2 | Booth, Stan | 2 | 22y 133d | 55 | 62 | |||||||||
| 18 | Burgess, Reg | 0 | 21y 252d | 36 | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 | Carstairs, Jim | 0 | 26y 227d | 60 | 19 | |||||||||
| 1 | Clarke, Jack | 2 | 22y 275d | 69 | 9 | |||||||||
| 16 | Dale, Alan | 0 | 26y 152d | 43 | 3 | |||||||||
| 24 | Fox, Robert | 0 | 24y 164d | 20 | 24 | |||||||||
| 13 | Gallagher, Fred | 0 | 25y 104d | 44 | 11 | |||||||||
| 3 | Gill, John | 1 | 23y 361d | 76 | 53 | |||||||||
| 23 | Harrington, Jack | 1 | 25y 293d | 50 | 10 | |||||||||
| 14 | Heenan, Jim | 0 | 25y 331d | 51 | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | Hutchison, Bill | 0 | 32y 352d | 260 | 444 | |||||||||
| 30 | Leek, Geoff | 0 | 24y 56d | 65 | 31 | |||||||||
| 4 | Lynch, Fred | 0 | 19y 340d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 25 | McConnell, Roy | 0 | 28y 237d | 124 | 0 | |||||||||
| 31 | Mitchell, Hugh | 3 | 21y 144d | 40 | 74 | |||||||||
| 34 | Pascoe, Mal | 0 | 23y 14d | 41 | 6 | |||||||||
| 9 | Sewell, Greg | 0 | 22y 289d | 63 | 13 | |||||||||
| 15 | Taylor, Bob | 0 | 24y 339d | 28 | 0 | |||||||||
| 16 | Willey, Graham | 0 | 22y 270d | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 13 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 9 | 13 | 24y 248d | 1260 | 786 | |||||||||
| Carlton | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 17 | Beasy, Doug | 0 | 25y 364d | 70 | 62 | |||||||||
| 36 | Bergin, Kevin | 0 | 19y 212d | 11 | 12 | |||||||||
| 4 | Bosustow, Bob | 0 | 21y 311d | 12 | 3 | |||||||||
| 23 | Chick, John | 0 | 23y 233d | 47 | 21 | |||||||||
| 16 | Clarke, Kevin | 0 | 24y 294d | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
| 15 | Comben, Bruce | 0 | 25y 174d | 84 | 34 | |||||||||
| 34 | Crowe, Bob | 1 | 19y 323d | 14 | 8 | |||||||||
| 13 | Donaldson, Graham | 0 | 20y 299d | 5 | 5 | |||||||||
| 14 | English, Vin | 0 | 27y 11d | 99 | 8 | |||||||||
| 24 | Garra, Vic | 0 | 20y 200d | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 28 | Gilchrist, Graham | 1 | 23y 244d | 29 | 9 | |||||||||
| 1 | Hands, Ken | 0 | 29y 171d | 179 | 160 | |||||||||
| 10 | James, John | 0 | 22y 87d | 52 | 12 | |||||||||
| 11 | Kerr, Laurie | 1 | 27y 294d | 91 | 16 | |||||||||
| 9 | Mills, Jack | 1 | 26y 15d | 99 | 106 | |||||||||
| 36 | Munro, Frank | 1 | 21y 353d | 11 | 3 | |||||||||
| 21 | Robertson, Ron | 0 | 22y 295d | 30 | 8 | |||||||||
| 6 | Robinson, Keith | 0 | 25y 254d | 19 | 0 | |||||||||
| 3 | Webster, Peter | 0 | 23y 252d | 34 | 4 | |||||||||
| 19 | Zeunert, Denis | 0 | 24y 277d | 32 | 8 | |||||||||
| Rushed | 9 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 5 | 9 | 23y 324d | 921 | 479 | |||||||||
Match highlights
Laurie Kerr played his 100th V/AFL game: Carlton vs. Essendon (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)Kevin Clarke debuted for Carlton (V/AFL, Premiership Season, R1)