1945 VFL Season: Carlton

Season Team Details

Season: 1945 VFL Season
Team: Carlton
Home Ground: Princes Park

Team Results

Ladder Position: 4th (W-D-L: 13-0-7, P%: 106.9%)
Finals Performance: Premiers
Players: 35
Brownlow Leader(s): unavailable
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Lance Collins (37)
John Nicholls Medal Recipient(s): Ron Savage

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Bob Chitty

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Alexander, Wal #9 8 R01-R02, R13, R15-R16, R19-R20, SF 0
Baird, Jim #25 17 R07-R20, SF, PF, GF 8
Baxter, Ken #21 13 R11-R20, SF, PF, GF 27
Beauvais, Don #17 4 R08-R10, R12 5
Bennett, Jack #3 23 R01-R20, SF, PF, GF 3
Bignell, Bernie #34 3 R04-R06 0
Boys, Ron #28 2 R03-R04 0
Brown, Vin #15 23 R01-R20, SF, PF, GF 0
Chitty, Bob #6 21 R02-R05, R07-R20, SF, PF, GF 1
Clark, Jim #26 22 R01-R18, R20, SF, PF, GF 1
Collins, Lance #5 17 R06-R07, R09-R20, SF, PF, GF 49
Deacon, Bert #23 10 R14-R20, SF, PF, GF 0
Fitzgibbon, Fred #8 18 R01, R03-R11, R15-R20, SF, PF 0
Green, Bob #32 5 R01-R05 1
Gregory, Les #29 1 R02 0
Hall, Arthur #25 3 R02-R04 1
Hands, Ken #1 18 R05-R12, R14-R20, SF, PF, GF 24
Hanton, Hal #5 2 R01-R02 0
Hearn, Adrian #19 3 R01-R03 5
Hines, Ron #11 20 R01-R14, R16-R18, R20, SF, PF 12
Hopper, Ken #2 15 R01-R14, R19 7
Jones, Jim #22 2 R01, R03 0
Mann, Cyril #27 3 R01-R03 3
McGrath, Frank #19 8 R04-R08, R12-R13, R16 3
McInnes, Charlie #31 13 R01-R02, R04, R07-R10, R14-R18, GF 8
McLean, Rod #14 18 R05-R15, R17-R20, SF, PF, GF 10
Mooring, Jim #16 9 R01-R07, PF, GF 18
Price, Mick #30 21 R03-R20, SF, PF, GF 32
Rose, Fred #21 2 R01-R02 3
Sanger, Arthur #18 23 R01-R20, SF, PF, GF 0
Savage, Ron #24 22 R01-R11, R13-R20, SF, PF, GF 31
Turner, Herb #7 16 R04-R06, R11-R20, SF, PF, GF 18
Way, Alex #4 11 R01, R06-R13, R19, GF 8
Williams, Doug #12 21 R01-R03, R05-R06, R08-R20, SF, PF, GF 0
Wines, Clinton #10 20 R03-R15, R17-R20, SF, PF, GF 7

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)
Bentley, Perce 23 16 -0- 7 R01-R20, SF, PF, GF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
21/04/1945 Round 1 Melbourne HOME LOSS MEL by 21 Perce Bentley Bob Green
28/04/1945 Round 2 Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 34 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
05/05/1945 Round 3 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 100 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
12/05/1945 Round 4 Fitzroy HOME WIN CAR by 7 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
19/05/1945 Round 5 St Kilda HOME WIN CAR by 11 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
26/05/1945 Round 6 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 25 Perce Bentley Rod McLean
02/06/1945 Round 7 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 5 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
09/06/1945 Round 8 Geelong AWAY WIN CAR by 36 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
16/06/1945 Round 9 Footscray HOME LOSS FOO by 9 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
23/06/1945 Round 10 North Melbourne AWAY WIN CAR by 25 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
30/06/1945 Round 11 South Melbourne HOME WIN CAR by 6 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
07/07/1945 Round 12 Melbourne AWAY WIN CAR by 1 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
14/07/1945 Round 13 Hawthorn HOME WIN CAR by 31 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
21/07/1945 Round 14 Essendon HOME LOSS ESS by 3 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
28/07/1945 Round 15 Fitzroy AWAY WIN CAR by 4 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
04/08/1945 Round 16 St Kilda AWAY WIN CAR by 22 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
11/08/1945 Round 17 Collingwood HOME WIN CAR by 6 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
18/08/1945 Round 18 Richmond AWAY WIN CAR by 12 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
25/08/1945 Round 19 Geelong HOME WIN CAR by 94 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
01/09/1945 Round 20 Footscray AWAY WIN CAR by 53 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
08/09/1945 Semi Final North Melbourne AWAY WIN CAR by 26 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
22/09/1945 Preliminary Final Collingwood AWAY WIN CAR by 10 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty
29/09/1945 Grand Final South Melbourne AWAY WIN CAR by 28 Perce Bentley Bob Chitty