1945 VFL Season: Collingwood

Season Team Details

Season: 1945 VFL Season
Team: Collingwood
Home Ground: Victoria Park

Team Results

Ladder Position: 2nd (W-D-L: 15-0-5, P%: 128.8%)
Finals Performance: Knocked out by Carlton (Preliminary Final)
Players: 37
Brownlow Leader(s): unavailable
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Des Fothergill (58)

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Alby Pannam

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Balfour, Don #20 2 R05, R12 2
Boyall, Marcus #3 6 R01-R06 2
Brown, Allan #4 13 R01-R08, R10-R11, R18-R20 11
Burns, Jack #3 11 R12-R20, SF, PF 1
Carroll, Jack #15 2 R08-R09 0
Carruthers, Ron #6 17 R02-R04, R09-R20, SF, PF 0
Dalkin, Bill #7 15 R01-R04, R06, R09-R15, R20, SF, PF 6
Dalton, Pat #10 2 R01-R02 0
Eiffler, Ernie #9 3 R02, R06-R07 0
Fitzgerald, Len #10 21 R01-R18, R20, SF, PF 0
Fothergill, Des #11 18 R01-R02, R04-R07, R10-R11, R13-R20, SF, PF 62
Gallagher, Laurie #12 1 R05 0
Green, Jack #9 5 R15-R19 5
Herbert, Ken #13 2 R12-R13 0
Hocking, Gordon #8 2 R08-R09 0
Holten, Mac #14 20 R01-R03, R05-R08, R10-R20, SF, PF 16
Hustler, Len #8 4 R13-R14, R20, PF 4
Mann, Neil #16 12 R01-R09, R18-R19, SF 11
McLaren, Peter #26 1 R07 0
Mears, Harry #17 19 R02-R16, R19-R20, SF, PF 14
Moore, Guy #18 10 R09-R17, SF 16
Murphy, Jack #19 20 R01-R03, R06-R20, SF, PF 3
Murrell, Murray #12 2 R07-R08 0
Naismith, Herb #20 15 R01-R06, R14-R20, SF, PF 1
Negri, Des #4 2 R01, R04 0
Nelson, George #22 11 R02-R12 0
Newman, Dave #23 20 R01, R03-R15, R17-R20, SF, PF 22
Pannam, Alby #1 16 R01, R03-R05, R07-R11, R13-R19 35
Richards, Lou #24 22 R01-R20, SF, PF 45
Riddell, Ray #21 1 PF 0
Ryan, Phil #25 22 R01-R20, SF, PF 21
Smith, Ron #5 2 R16-R17 0
Twomey, Bill #27 21 R01-R12, R14-R20, SF, PF 3
Utting, Charlie #28 21 R01, R03-R20, SF, PF 1
Wade, Kevin #30 22 R01-R20, SF, PF 0
Wallis, Tom #29 15 R08-R20, SF, PF 0
Williams, Alan #28 20 R01-R13, R16-R20, SF, PF 14

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)
McHale, Jock 22 15 -0- 7 R01-R20, SF, PF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
21/04/1945 Round 1 North Melbourne HOME WIN COL by 21 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
28/04/1945 Round 2 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 10 Jock McHale unknown
05/05/1945 Round 3 Melbourne HOME WIN COL by 3 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
12/05/1945 Round 4 Hawthorn HOME WIN COL by 38 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
19/05/1945 Round 5 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 1 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
26/05/1945 Round 6 Carlton HOME WIN COL by 25 Jock McHale unknown
02/06/1945 Round 7 St Kilda AWAY WIN COL by 76 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
09/06/1945 Round 8 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FIT by 95 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
16/06/1945 Round 9 Richmond HOME WIN COL by 29 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
23/06/1945 Round 10 Geelong AWAY WIN COL by 97 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
30/06/1945 Round 11 Footscray HOME LOSS FOO by 5 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
07/07/1945 Round 12 North Melbourne AWAY WIN COL by 6 Jock McHale unknown
14/07/1945 Round 13 South Melbourne HOME WIN COL by 26 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
21/07/1945 Round 14 Melbourne AWAY WIN COL by 35 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
28/07/1945 Round 15 Hawthorn AWAY WIN COL by 32 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
04/08/1945 Round 16 Essendon HOME WIN COL by 29 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
11/08/1945 Round 17 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 6 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
18/08/1945 Round 18 St Kilda HOME WIN COL by 79 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
25/08/1945 Round 19 Fitzroy HOME WIN COL by 26 Jock McHale Alby Pannam
01/09/1945 Round 20 Richmond AWAY WIN COL by 20 Jock McHale unknown
15/09/1945 Semi Final South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 11 Jock McHale unknown
22/09/1945 Preliminary Final Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 10 Jock McHale unknown