1942 VFL Season: South Melbourne

Season Team Details

Season: 1942 VFL Season
Team: South Melbourne
Home Ground: Princes Park

Team Results

Ladder Position: 3rd (W-D-L: 11-0-4, P%: 129.0%)
Finals Performance: Knocked out by Essendon (Preliminary Final)
Players: 37
Brownlow Leader(s): unavailable
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Lindsay White (67)
Bob Skilton Medal Recipient(s): Jim Cleary

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Herbie Matthews

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Benison, Alf #26 16 R01-R07, R10-R16, SF, PF 15
Butcher, Jack #10 17 R01-R07, R09-R16, SF, PF 3
Bywater, Ron #14 1 SF 0
Cashion, Terry #11 5 R01-R05 5
Castles, Vic #24 17 R01-R07, R09-R16, SF, PF 23
Chinn, Ian #6 9 R07, R09-R14, SF, PF 17
Cleary, Jim #20 16 R02-R07, R09-R16, SF, PF 0
Collard, George #31 7 R02-R03, R14-R16, SF, PF 9
Crane, Tom #22 2 R05-R06 0
Culph, Charlie #30 2 R14-R15 3
Delfs, Len #15 5 R10, R12, R14-R16 5
Engellenner, Dave #2 3 R10, R12, R15 0
Golding, Bill #30 3 R09-R11 3
Goldsmith, Gordon #28 11 R01-R07, R09-R10, R13-R14 5
Graham, Jack #22 16 R01-R07, R09, R11-R16, SF, PF 15
Grossman, Don #17 14 R01-R04, R07, R09-R16, PF 0
Hacker, Jack #29 17 R01-R07, R09-R16, SF, PF 0
Harwood, Bill #19 15 R01-R07, R09, R11-R14, R16, SF, PF 5
Huxtable, Eric #9 9 R01-R02, R04-R07, R09-R11 0
Kelly, Brian #5 10 R01, R03-R07, R10-R13 1
King, Billy #12 16 R01-R07, R09, R11-R16, SF, PF 3
Lahiff, Tommy #34 6 R01-R06 10
Linden, Alan #33 8 R01, R07, R09-R13, PF 7
Mangan, Lou #3 6 R06-R07, R09-R10, R13, PF 1
Martin, Des #8 1 R11 0
Matthews, Herbie #2 14 R01-R07, R09-R10, R14-R16, SF, PF 1
Mullenger, Allan #21 16 R01-R07, R09-R16, SF 14
Neenan, Bernie #22 3 R15-R16, SF 2
Reynolds, Ron #30 2 R05-R06 1
Ritchie, Rex #4 3 R04, R12-R13 0
Smith, Keith #2 11 R05-R07, R09-R11, R13, R15-R16, SF, PF 4
Taylor, Don #18 5 R09, R14, R16, SF, PF 0
Tetley, Laurie #16 1 R11 0
Traynor, Harold #32 11 R01-R04, R12-R16, SF, PF 4
Turner, Arthur #9 1 R12 0
White, Lindsay #7 16 R01-R07, R09-R13, R15-R16, SF, PF 80
Williams, Jack #25 8 R01-R03, R14-R16, SF, PF 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)
Kelly, Joe 17 12 -0- 5 R01-R07, R09-R16, SF, PF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
09/05/1942 Round 1 Collingwood HOME WIN SOU by 38 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
16/05/1942 Round 2 Carlton AWAY WIN SOU by 40 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
23/05/1942 Round 3 St Kilda HOME WIN SOU by 74 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
30/05/1942 Round 4 North Melbourne AWAY LOSS NOR by 15 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
06/06/1942 Round 5 Melbourne HOME WIN SOU by 33 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
13/06/1942 Round 6 Fitzroy HOME LOSS FIT by 14 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
20/06/1942 Round 7 Richmond AWAY WIN SOU by 17 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
Round 8 BYE
04/07/1942 Round 9 Footscray AWAY WIN SOU by 30 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
11/07/1942 Round 10 Hawthorn HOME WIN SOU by 3 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
18/07/1942 Round 11 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 20 Joe Kelly unknown
25/07/1942 Round 12 Collingwood AWAY WIN SOU by 42 Joe Kelly unknown
01/08/1942 Round 13 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 5 Joe Kelly unknown
08/08/1942 Round 14 St Kilda AWAY WIN SOU by 43 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
15/08/1942 Round 15 North Melbourne HOME WIN SOU by 58 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
22/08/1942 Round 16 Melbourne AWAY WIN SOU by 16 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
29/08/1942 Semi Final Footscray HOME WIN SOU by 27 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews
12/09/1942 Preliminary Final Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 28 Joe Kelly Herbie Matthews