1941 VFL Season: Essendon

Season Team Details

Season: 1941 VFL Season
Team: Essendon
Home Ground: Windy Hill

Team Results

Ladder Position: 4th (W-D-L: 13-0-5, P%: 130.3%)
Finals Performance: Runners-Up
Players: 35
Brownlow Leader(s): Wally Buttsworth (12)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Tom Reynolds (57)
W. S. Crichton Medal Recipient(s): Wally Buttsworth

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Dick Reynolds

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Abbott, Gordon #25 18 R04-R18, SF, PF, GF 12
Baker, Norm #7 6 R01-R02, R07, R11, R13, R15 0
Begley, Les #24 5 R12-R14, R16-R17 0
Bell, George #12 16 R01-R16 0
Betson, Norm #31 7 R09-R15 4
Bryce, Ted #9 15 R01, R03-R06, R08-R12, R17-R18, SF, PF, GF 29
Bushby, Percy #35 9 R01, R03-R07, R11-R12, PF 2
Buttsworth, Wally #15 20 R01-R15, R17-R18, SF, PF, GF 0
Caesar, Jack #5 20 R01-R12, R14-R18, SF, PF, GF 4
Cassin, Jack #19 15 R01-R03, R08-R10, R12-R17, SF, PF, GF 33
Coward, Ernie #1 15 R01-R03, R08-R10, R13-R18, SF, PF, GF 4
Evans, Joe #16 12 R02-R13 1
Exelby, Murray #4 16 R01-R07, R13-R18, SF, PF, GF 19
Flanigan, Bob #30 11 R01-R03, R09, R11-R12, R15, R18, SF, PF, GF 1
Forsyth, Keith #32 2 R02, R04 0
Green, Fred #26 20 R01-R14, R16-R18, SF, PF, GF 5
Griggs, Les #33 19 R01-R11, R14-R18, SF, PF, GF 29
Hird, Allan #6 21 R01-R18, SF, PF, GF 0
Keddie, Jack #27 1 R18 0
Lambert, Chris #18 8 R05-R07, R11, R13-R16 8
Lambert, Harold #17 11 R01, R11-R17, SF, PF, GF 1
Lane, Gordon #22 16 R01-R10, R16-R18, SF, PF, GF 50
McPartland, Andy #13 1 R16 0
Molloy, Dick #23 2 R10-R11 0
Plummer, Elton #8 21 R01-R18, SF, PF, GF 0
Regan, Ted #11 5 R08-R10, R12, GF 1
Reynolds, Dick #3 20 R01-R10, R12-R18, SF, PF, GF 36
Reynolds, Tom #29 18 R01-R04, R07-R18, SF, GF 65
Ruddell, Cec #21 13 R02-R08, R13, R17-R18, SF, PF, GF 0
Silk, Sid #23 1 PF 0
Smith, Ron #2 6 R11-R15, R18 0
Thomas, Ritchie #10 4 R16-R18, SF 0
Torney, Hugh #20 18 R01-R10, R14-R18, SF, PF, GF 4
Watts, Ray #28 2 R05-R06 7
Wilson, Stan #14 5 R04-R08 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)
Reynolds, Dick 20 14 -0- 6 R01-R10, R12-R18, SF, PF, GF
Griggs, Les 1 1 -0- 0 R11

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
26/04/1941 Round 1 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 3 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
03/05/1941 Round 2 North Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 37 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
10/05/1941 Round 3 St Kilda AWAY WIN ESS by 45 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
17/05/1941 Round 4 Richmond HOME WIN ESS by 12 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
31/05/1941 Round 5 Hawthorn AWAY WIN ESS by 96 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
07/06/1941 Round 6 South Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 35 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
14/06/1941 Round 7 Fitzroy HOME WIN ESS by 42 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
21/06/1941 Round 8 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 8 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
28/06/1941 Round 9 Geelong HOME WIN ESS by 41 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
05/07/1941 Round 10 Melbourne AWAY LOSS MEL by 48 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
12/07/1941 Round 11 Footscray HOME WIN ESS by 39 Les Griggs unknown
19/07/1941 Round 12 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 39 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
26/07/1941 Round 13 North Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 24 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
02/08/1941 Round 14 St Kilda HOME WIN ESS by 64 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
09/08/1941 Round 15 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 7 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
16/08/1941 Round 16 Hawthorn HOME WIN ESS by 38 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
23/08/1941 Round 17 South Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 49 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
30/08/1941 Round 18 Fitzroy AWAY WIN ESS by 16 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
06/09/1941 Semi Final Richmond AWAY WIN ESS by 54 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
20/09/1941 Preliminary Final Carlton AWAY WIN ESS by 25 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
27/09/1941 Grand Final Melbourne AWAY LOSS MEL by 29 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds