1935 VFL Season: Melbourne

Season Team Details

Season: 1935 VFL Season
Team: Melbourne
Home Ground: MCG

Team Results

Ladder Position: 6th (W-D-L: 8-1-9, P%: 101.2%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 36
Brownlow Leader(s): Allan La Fontaine (15)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Maurie Gibb (59)
Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy Recipient(s): Allan La Fontaine

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Colin Niven
Vice-Captain(s): Allan La Fontaine

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Backway, Fred #21 2 R02-R03 1
Baggott, Ron #15 7 R12-R18 26
Ball, Jock #29 8 R01-R05, R11-R13 0
Beames, Percy #24 14 R01-R08, R11-R12, R15-R18 25
Bennett, Jack #10 12 R07-R18 11
Carr, Jack #26 2 R08-R09 0
Deague, Bill #5 15 R01, R04-R11, R13-R18 1
Feltscheer, Ken #22 2 R17-R18 0
Fischer, Rowley #8 15 R01-R07, R09-R10, R12-R16, R18 4
Foster, Jack #30 13 R01-R04, R07-R11, R14, R16-R18 8
Gibb, Maurie #14 18 R01-R18 59
Gillespie-Jones, Audley #15 2 R01-R02 0
Glass, Eric #16 13 R01, R04-R05, R09-R18 21
Halloran, Frank #33 3 R06, R09-R10 1
Hooper, Don #18 8 R01-R03, R05-R08, R12 0
Jones, Gordon #1 7 R01-R03, R06, R13-R15 1
Jones, Les #13 18 R01-R18 8
Kelly, Frank #25 13 R01-R07, R09, R11-R12, R16-R18 0
Kinnear, Joe #36 1 R10 0
La Fontaine, Allan #17 18 R01-R18 1
Libbis, Billy #22 11 R04-R11, R13-R14, R18 8
Long, Harry #20 11 R08-R18 0
Longhurst, Charlie #9 14 R03-R15, R18 0
Matthews, Norm 1 R16 0
McNamara, Pat #28 6 R10-R15 0
Meehl, Sid #11 15 R04-R18 1
Mueller, Jack #12 18 R01-R18 16
Niven, Colin #2 8 R01-R08 2
Ogden, Gordon #32 17 R01-R10, R12-R18 0
Roberts, Archie #6 5 R01-R04, R17 0
Smith, Len #26 6 R05-R06, R08-R11 3
Smith, Norm #4 3 R15-R17 4
Sweeney, Bill #35 2 R02-R03 1
Taylor, Bert #35 13 R01-R04, R07-R08, R11-R17 5
Taylor, Dick #35 3 R05-R07 2
Wartman, Ray #23 18 R01-R18 18

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)
Hughes, Frank 18 8 -1- 9 R01-R18

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
27/04/1935 Round 1 Essendon HOME LOSS ESS by 60 Frank Hughes Colin Niven
04/05/1935 Round 2 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 2 Frank Hughes Colin Niven
11/05/1935 Round 3 Hawthorn HOME WIN MEL by 30 Frank Hughes Colin Niven
18/05/1935 Round 4 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 36 Frank Hughes Colin Niven
25/05/1935 Round 5 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 29 Frank Hughes Colin Niven
03/06/1935 Round 6 St Kilda HOME LOSS STK by 7 Frank Hughes Colin Niven
08/06/1935 Round 7 North Melbourne AWAY WIN MEL by 60 Frank Hughes Colin Niven
15/06/1935 Round 8 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 12 Frank Hughes Colin Niven
22/06/1935 Round 9 Footscray AWAY WIN MEL by 5 Frank Hughes Allan La Fontaine
29/06/1935 Round 10 Fitzroy AWAY WIN MEL by 19 Frank Hughes Allan La Fontaine
06/07/1935 Round 11 South Melbourne HOME LOSS SOU by 44 Frank Hughes Allan La Fontaine
13/07/1935 Round 12 Essendon AWAY WIN MEL by 19 Frank Hughes Allan La Fontaine
20/07/1935 Round 13 Geelong HOME WIN MEL by 28 Frank Hughes Allan La Fontaine
27/07/1935 Round 14 Hawthorn AWAY WIN MEL by 19 Frank Hughes Allan La Fontaine
17/08/1935 Round 15 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 7 Frank Hughes Allan La Fontaine
24/08/1935 Round 16 Collingwood AWAY DRAW drawn Frank Hughes Allan La Fontaine
31/08/1935 Round 17 St Kilda AWAY LOSS STK by 12 Frank Hughes Allan La Fontaine
07/09/1935 Round 18 North Melbourne HOME WIN MEL by 48 Frank Hughes Allan La Fontaine