1917 VFL Season: Fitzroy

Season Team Details

Season: 1917 VFL Season
Team: Fitzroy
Home Ground: Brunswick Street Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 4th (W-D-L: 6-1-8, P%: 86.4%)
Finals Performance: Runners-Up
Players: 31
Brownlow Leader(s): unavailable
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Jim Freake (30)

Team Leaders

Captain(s): George Holden
Vice-Captain(s): Chris Lethbridge

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Abbott, Paddy #31 3 R02, R09, R15 0
Atkinson, Jim #17 7 R02, R09-R10, R12, R15, SF, PF 0
Bamford, Fred #8 17 R01, R03-R15, SF, PF, GF 0
Barker, Norm #4 2 R01, R03 0
Bennett, Doug #14 4 R08-R09, R11-R12 2
Byrne, Bill #2 10 R01-R02, R04-R08, R10-R11, GF 2
Byrne, Charlie #1 1 R01 1
Freake, Jim #9 16 R01-R07, R10-R15, SF, PF, GF 37
Heaney, Tom #21 13 R01-R04, R07, R09, R12-R15, SF, PF, GF 7
Holden, George #30 17 R01-R14, SF, PF, GF 2
Jenkin, Horrie #5, #7 6 R01-R03, R05, R08-R09 6
Keller, Carl #33, #1 14 R04-R11, R13-R15, SF, PF, GF 0
Kennedy, Alex #6, #18 9 R02-R03, R05, R08-R11, R14-R15 2
King, Bob #16 14 R01, R03-R08, R11-R14, SF, PF, GF 0
Lambert, George #7 7 R01, R06-R08, R14-R15, PF 0
Lenne, Bert #11 8 R10-R13, R15, SF, PF, GF 0
Lethbridge, Chris #12, #4 18 R01-R15, SF, PF, GF 0
Lowrie, Tom #28 15 R01-R04, R06-R08, R10-R15, SF, GF 14
McDonald, Ted #23 16 R01-R10, R13-R15, SF, PF, GF 1
Millen, Roy #26 17 R01-R06, R08-R15, SF, PF, GF 2
Moore, Fred #15 18 R01-R15, SF, PF, GF 8
Norris, Charlie #22 15 R03-R13, R15, SF, PF, GF 5
O'Brien, Jack #29 2 R03, R05 0
Parratt, Percy #20 18 R01-R15, SF, PF, GF 24
Pattison, George #10 1 R02 0
Powditch, Harry #24 1 R02 0
Purcell, Teddy #6 5 R04-R07, R12 0
Rattray, Gordon #27 6 R08-R09, R13-R14, PF, GF 4
Strawbridge, Frank #25 15 R01-R07, R09-R15, SF 5
Toohey, Jim #3 17 R01-R04, R06-R15, SF, PF, GF 5
Wigraft, Len #27, #29 12 R04-R07, R10-R14, SF, PF, GF 6

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 18 8 -1- 9 R01-R15, SF, PF, GF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
12/05/1917 Round 1 Carlton HOME DRAW drawn George Holden George Holden
19/05/1917 Round 2 Geelong AWAY WIN FIT by 18 George Holden George Holden
26/05/1917 Round 3 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 16 George Holden George Holden
04/06/1917 Round 4 Richmond HOME WIN FIT by 11 George Holden George Holden
09/06/1917 Round 5 South Melbourne AWAY WIN FIT by 5 George Holden George Holden
16/06/1917 Round 6 Carlton AWAY WIN FIT by 16 George Holden George Holden
23/06/1917 Round 7 Geelong HOME LOSS GEE by 13 George Holden George Holden
30/06/1917 Round 8 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 3 George Holden George Holden
07/07/1917 Round 9 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 49 George Holden George Holden
14/07/1917 Round 10 South Melbourne HOME WIN FIT by 7 George Holden George Holden
21/07/1917 Round 11 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 14 George Holden George Holden
28/07/1917 Round 12 Geelong AWAY WIN FIT by 19 George Holden George Holden
11/08/1917 Round 13 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 56 George Holden George Holden
18/08/1917 Round 14 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 18 George Holden George Holden
25/08/1917 Round 15 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 38 George Holden Chris Lethbridge
01/09/1917 Semi Final Carlton AWAY WIN FIT by 9 George Holden George Holden
15/09/1917 Preliminary Final Collingwood AWAY WIN FIT by 6 George Holden George Holden
22/09/1917 Grand Final Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 35 George Holden George Holden