1918 VFL Season: Essendon

Season Team Details

Season: 1918 VFL Season
Team: Essendon
Home Ground: East Melbourne

Team Results

Ladder Position: 8th (W-D-L: 3-0-11, P%: 64.2%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 40
Brownlow Leader(s): unavailable
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Norm Hall (15)

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Fred Baring
Vice-Captain(s): Percy Ogden

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Alexander, Jim 1 R14 0
Baring, Fred #1 8 R01, R05-R11 1
Barr, Sydney #26 1 R08 0
Belcher, Allan #20 10 R05-R14 3
Bowe, Len #4 13 R01-R06, R08-R14 0
Chalmers, Wally #2 6 R02-R06, R08 1
Coffey, Bill 1 R01 0
Condon, Jim #24 11 R01-R08, R12-R14 11
Day, Bert #21 14 R01-R14 0
Donald, Bobby #5 8 R05-R07, R09-R13 1
Drinkwater, Bert #25 10 R05-R14 2
Dunn, Norm #21 10 R01, R04, R06-R07, R09-R14 3
Fitzmaurice, Tom #3 10 R02-R06, R09-R10, R12-R14 4
Furlong, Phil #14 5 R01-R04, R07 3
Gove, Cyril #19 2 R07-R08 0
Greenwood, Tom #29 2 R08, R13 0
Hall, Norm #6 10 R01-R03, R05, R07, R10-R14 15
Hanson, Bill #28 3 R09-R11 1
Hemingway, George 1 R14 0
Kirby, Jack #11 2 R03-R04 0
Laing, Roy #15 11 R01-R03, R06-R13 0
Lavelle, Jim 1 R11 1
Martyn, Percy #7 4 R01-R04 0
McDonald, Paddy #28 6 R08-R13 2
McGarity, Jack #29 2 R03-R04 0
McInerney, Leo #23 9 R01-R02, R04, R07-R10, R12-R13 2
Nankervis, Vic #26 1 R03 0
O'Connor, Alby #10 4 R04-R07 1
Ogden, Percy #16 13 R01-R03, R05-R14 4
Phillips, Len #30 4 R04-R05, R07, R14 0
Richardson, Ned #12 14 R01-R14 0
Sawyer, Harry #28 4 R02-R05 0
Shea, Paddy #18 12 R01-R02, R04-R10, R12-R14 7
Sinclair, Col #13 6 R01-R06 0
Sprague, Eric 3 R09, R11, R14 0
Sullivan, Jimmy #8 10 R01-R06, R08-R11 2
Taylor, Jim #22 1 R02 0
Walsh, Dave #17 10 R01, R03, R07-R14 3
Wollacott, Bertie #26 2 R12, R14 1
Wylie, Bill #9 7 R01-R02, R06, R11-R14 1

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)
Worrall, Jack 14 3 -0- 11 R01-R14

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
11/05/1918 Round 1 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 12 Jack Worrall Fred Baring
18/05/1918 Round 2 St Kilda HOME WIN ESS by 7 Jack Worrall Percy Ogden
25/05/1918 Round 3 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 16 Jack Worrall Percy Ogden
01/06/1918 Round 4 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 38 Jack Worrall Paddy Shea
08/06/1918 Round 5 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FIT by 41 Jack Worrall Fred Baring
15/06/1918 Round 6 South Melbourne HOME LOSS SOU by 20 Jack Worrall Fred Baring
22/06/1918 Round 7 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 65 Jack Worrall Fred Baring
29/06/1918 Round 8 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 23 Jack Worrall Fred Baring
06/07/1918 Round 9 St Kilda AWAY LOSS STK by 8 Jack Worrall Fred Baring
13/07/1918 Round 10 Geelong HOME WIN ESS by 19 Jack Worrall Fred Baring
20/07/1918 Round 11 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 49 Jack Worrall Fred Baring
27/07/1918 Round 12 Fitzroy HOME WIN ESS by 16 Jack Worrall Percy Ogden
03/08/1918 Round 13 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 33 Jack Worrall Percy Ogden
10/08/1918 Round 14 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 42 Jack Worrall Percy Ogden