1916 VFL Season: Fitzroy

Season Team Details

Season: 1916 VFL Season
Team: Fitzroy
Home Ground: Brunswick Street Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 4th (W-D-L: 2-1-9, P%: 81.6%)
Finals Performance: Premiers
Players: 33
Brownlow Leader(s): unavailable
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Jim Freake (20)

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Wally Johnson

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Abbott, Paddy #31 6 R01-R05, R11 0
Ballantyne, Frank #32 4 R05-R07, R09 1
Bamford, Fred #8 13 R01-R05, R07, R09-R12, SF, PF, GF 0
Barrett, Maurie #2 2 R10-R11 1
Buist, Teddy #1 10 R05, R07-R12, SF, PF, GF 0
Byrne, Charlie 1 R06 0
Fergie, Clive #24 3 R01-R03 0
Freake, Jim #9 11 R01-R08, R10-R12 20
Gibaud, Bill #25 1 R04 0
Heaney, Tom #21 15 R01-R12, SF, PF, GF 27
Holden, George #30 10 R06-R12, SF, PF, GF 3
Jenkin, Horrie #5 10 R02, R05-R10, SF, PF, GF 12
Johnson, Wally #14 14 R01-R10, R12, SF, PF, GF 0
King, Bob #15, #16 9 R04-R07, R11-R12, SF, PF, GF 0
King, George #15 4 R06-R07, R09-R10 3
Lambert, George #7 3 R03-R05 0
Lenne, Bert #11 12 R01-R06, R08, R10, R12, SF, PF, GF 0
Lethbridge, Chris #12 13 R01-R09, R11-R12, SF, PF 3
Lowrie, Tom #28 14 R01-R02, R04-R12, SF, PF, GF 14
McDonald, Ted #23 11 R01, R06-R12, SF, PF, GF 0
McLennan, Harold #19 4 R01-R03, GF 1
Millen, Roy #26 15 R01-R12, SF, PF, GF 0
Moore, Fred #16 8 R08-R12, SF, PF, GF 3
Norris, Charlie #22 7 R01-R04, SF, PF, GF 0
O'Dee, Bert #29 13 R01-R03, R06-R12, SF, PF, GF 4
O'Keefe, Frank #4 1 R05 1
Parratt, Percy #20 13 R01-R05, R07, R09-R12, SF, PF, GF 15
Purcell, Teddy #6 12 R01-R04, R06, R08-R09, R11-R12, SF, PF, GF 2
Reeves, Bill #2 1 R08 0
Shaw, George #17 14 R01-R10, R12, SF, PF, GF 3
Smith, Harry #18 4 R03-R05, R08 0
Toohey, Jim #3 11 R01-R04, R06-R12 13
Walker, Harold #27 1 R11 0

Team Line-Up

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This is an approximation for the typical team line-up based on available position records from this season.

Coach Results

Coach Match(es) (W-D-L) Round(s)
Holden, George 15 5 -1- 9 R01-R12, SF, PF, GF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
06/05/1916 Round 1 Carlton AWAY WIN FIT by 4 George Holden Wally Johnson
13/05/1916 Round 2 Richmond HOME WIN FIT by 29 George Holden Wally Johnson
20/05/1916 Round 3 Collingwood HOME DRAW drawn George Holden Wally Johnson
27/05/1916 Round 4 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 33 George Holden Wally Johnson
05/06/1916 Round 5 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 59 George Holden Wally Johnson
10/06/1916 Round 6 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 14 George Holden Wally Johnson
17/06/1916 Round 7 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 29 George Holden Wally Johnson
24/06/1916 Round 8 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 10 George Holden Wally Johnson
08/07/1916 Round 9 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 1 George Holden Wally Johnson
15/07/1916 Round 10 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 19 George Holden Wally Johnson
22/07/1916 Round 11 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 10 George Holden unknown
29/07/1916 Round 12 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 18 George Holden Wally Johnson
12/08/1916 Semi Final Collingwood AWAY WIN FIT by 6 George Holden Wally Johnson
26/08/1916 Preliminary Final Carlton AWAY WIN FIT by 23 George Holden Wally Johnson
02/09/1916 Grand Final Carlton HOME WIN FIT by 29 George Holden Wally Johnson