1944 VFL Season: Essendon

Season Team Details

Season: 1944 VFL Season
Team: Essendon
Home Ground: Windy Hill

Team Results

Ladder Position: 3rd (W-D-L: 12-2-4, P%: 134.0%)
Finals Performance: Knocked out by Richmond (Preliminary Final)
Players: 38
Brownlow Leader(s): unavailable
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Ray Powell (38)
W. S. Crichton Medal Recipient(s): Percy Bushby

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Dick Reynolds
Vice-Captain(s): Elton Plummer

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Abbott, Gordon #25 8 R02, R05, R07, R09, R17-R18, SF, PF 7
Betson, Norm #31 20 R01-R18, SF, PF 2
Brittingham, Bill #23 9 R01-R04, R10-R12, R14-R15 0
Bushby, Percy #35 20 R01-R18, SF, PF 8
Buttsworth, Wally #15 16 R05-R18, SF, PF 0
Cassin, Jack #19 19 R01-R14, R16-R18, SF, PF 14
Cockburn, Jack #27 5 R10, R12-R15 1
Collicoat, Ken #9 2 R08, R17 0
Coward, Ernie #1 20 R01-R18, SF, PF 4
Dearle, Laurie #10 19 R01-R09, R11-R18, SF, PF 23
Dimble, Murray #21 7 R01-R07 4
Drummond, Bob #28 5 R01-R04, R08 14
Exelby, Murray #4 1 R16 0
Finn, Ray #16 8 R02-R07, R09-R10 12
Flanigan, Bob #30 10 R01-R03, R05-R09, R14-R15 0
Griggs, Les #20 16 R01-R03, R05-R07, R09-R10, R12-R15, R17-R18, SF, PF 3
Harper, Bert #12 5 R01, R03-R05, R07 3
Healy, Terry #11 7 R08-R11, R14-R15, SF 1
Henry, Jack #5 3 R11-R13 0
Hill, Russell 1 R16 1
Hird, Allan #6 20 R01-R18, SF, PF 0
Hutchison, Bill #7 20 R01-R18, SF, PF 26
Kennedy, Ron #4 3 R06-R08 1
Lambert, Chris #14 4 R11-R13, R15 0
Lane, Gordon #22 17 R01-R03, R05-R06, R08-R16, R18, SF, PF 34
McIvor, Ivor #33 4 R17-R18, SF, PF 5
Plummer, Elton #8 20 R01-R18, SF, PF 0
Powell, Ray #17 16 R01, R04-R05, R08-R18, SF, PF 43
Randall, Alan #2 6 R06, R16-R18, SF, PF 0
Reynolds, Dick #3 13 R08-R18, SF, PF 23
Reynolds, Tom #29 9 R01-R03, R11-R16 23
Shaw, Alan #32 4 R13, R16-R18 0
Silk, Sid #36 3 R04, R06-R07 0
Smith, Noel #24 20 R01-R18, SF, PF 40
Syme, Bob #34 8 R04-R11 0
Symons, Jack #13 3 R03-R04, PF 0
Tonkes, Herbie #18 7 R01-R02, R16-R18, SF, PF 0
Vinall, Jack #26 2 R04, R10 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)
Plummer, Elton 7 3 -1- 3 R01-R07
Reynolds, Dick 13 10 -1- 2 R08-R18, SF, PF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
06/05/1944 Round 1 Hawthorn AWAY WIN ESS by 38 Elton Plummer Elton Plummer
13/05/1944 Round 2 Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 20 Elton Plummer Elton Plummer
20/05/1944 Round 3 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 41 Elton Plummer Elton Plummer
27/05/1944 Round 4 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 2 Elton Plummer Elton Plummer
03/06/1944 Round 5 Geelong HOME WIN ESS by 36 Elton Plummer Elton Plummer
10/06/1944 Round 6 St Kilda AWAY DRAW drawn Elton Plummer Elton Plummer
17/06/1944 Round 7 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 29 Elton Plummer Elton Plummer
24/06/1944 Round 8 North Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 84 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
01/07/1944 Round 9 Fitzroy AWAY DRAW drawn Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
08/07/1944 Round 10 Footscray HOME WIN ESS by 39 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
15/07/1944 Round 11 South Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 49 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
22/07/1944 Round 12 Hawthorn HOME WIN ESS by 107 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
29/07/1944 Round 13 Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 20 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
05/08/1944 Round 14 Richmond AWAY WIN ESS by 4 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
12/08/1944 Round 15 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 59 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
19/08/1944 Round 16 Geelong AWAY WIN ESS by 25 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
26/08/1944 Round 17 St Kilda HOME WIN ESS by 106 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
02/09/1944 Round 18 South Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 82 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
09/09/1944 Semi Final Footscray HOME WIN ESS by 49 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
23/09/1944 Preliminary Final Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 21 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds