1940 VFL Season: Fitzroy

Season Team Details

Season: 1940 VFL Season
Team: Fitzroy
Home Ground: Brunswick Street Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 7th (W-D-L: 9-0-9, P%: 92.3%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 39
Brownlow Leader(s): Fred Hughson, Len Smith (9)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Claude Curtin (56)

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Frank Curcio

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Calverley, Bruce #20 17 R01-R11, R13-R18 2
Calverley, Des #12 11 R05-R06, R09-R12, R14-R18 1
Clay, Alf #15 5 R01-R05 8
Clay, Bert #31 4 R09-R10, R14-R15 3
Curcio, Frank #18 17 R01-R17 0
Curtin, Claude #33 13 R03, R06-R17 56
Dawson, Horrie #30 3 R01-R03 0
Denning, Clen #32 13 R01, R06-R17 0
Dudley, Wal #19 3 R09-R10, R18 4
Dyring, Lindsay #24 8 R09, R11-R17 2
Edwards, Arthur #11 2 R06-R07 1
Fields, Allan #17 11 R01-R07, R10-R13 10
Forbes, Keith #3 4 R05-R08 10
Fox, Kevin #4 6 R01-R02, R04-R07 8
Gillespie-Jones, Audley #7 7 R01-R05, R07, R18 0
Hall, Arthur #25 16 R01-R14, R16-R17 0
Hart, Arthur #9 15 R02-R04, R06-R08, R10-R18 14
Hearn, Maurie #23 11 R04-R06, R08, R11-R17 7
Hill, Ted #12 3 R01-R02, R17 0
Hillard, Norm #8 13 R01, R07-R18 0
Hughson, Fred #6 16 R01-R12, R15-R18 8
Hughson, Mick #5 15 R01-R03, R07-R18 3
James, Shadrach #2 11 R03-R06, R08-R12, R15-R16 9
Knott, Arch #1 12 R01-R05, R11, R13-R18 5
McGain, Syd #13 8 R08-R14, R18 0
McNamara, Lindsay #12 3 R04-R05, R17 1
Merrick, Bob #14 2 R01-R02 0
Muir, Alan 1 R18 0
Murray, Dan #3 6 R13-R18 1
Price, Noel #22 8 R05-R10, R12-R13 2
Ruthven, Allan #14 6 R11, R13-R16, R18 7
Sharp, Mickey #27 18 R01-R18 13
Sier, Ken #7 1 R18 0
Smallhorn, Wilfred #21 4 R01-R04 0
Smith, Len #29 17 R02-R18 0
Stackpole, Keith #26 17 R01-R10, R12-R18 23
Tagell, Jim #16 3 R03-R04, R18 0
Treweek, Bernie #10 8 R01-R08 0
Wright, Stan #22 4 R08-R09, R12, R18 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)
Minogue, Dan 18 9 -0- 9 R01-R18

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
27/04/1940 Round 1 St Kilda HOME WIN FIT by 11 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
04/05/1940 Round 2 North Melbourne AWAY LOSS NOR by 55 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
11/05/1940 Round 3 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 29 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
18/05/1940 Round 4 Essendon HOME WIN FIT by 11 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
25/05/1940 Round 5 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 21 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
01/06/1940 Round 6 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 14 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
08/06/1940 Round 7 Hawthorn HOME WIN FIT by 27 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
17/06/1940 Round 8 Melbourne AWAY LOSS MEL by 2 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
22/06/1940 Round 9 South Melbourne HOME WIN FIT by 13 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
29/06/1940 Round 10 Collingwood AWAY WIN FIT by 14 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
06/07/1940 Round 11 Footscray HOME WIN FIT by 13 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
13/07/1940 Round 12 St Kilda AWAY LOSS STK by 11 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
20/07/1940 Round 13 North Melbourne HOME WIN FIT by 46 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
27/07/1940 Round 14 Geelong HOME WIN FIT by 27 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
10/08/1940 Round 15 Essendon AWAY WIN FIT by 3 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
17/08/1940 Round 16 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 28 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
24/08/1940 Round 17 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 69 Dan Minogue Frank Curcio
31/08/1940 Round 18 Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 56 Dan Minogue unknown