1946 VFL Season: Essendon

Season Team Details

Season: 1946 VFL Season
Team: Essendon
Home Ground: Windy Hill

Team Results

Ladder Position: 1st (W-D-L: 15-0-4, P%: 140.7%)
Finals Performance: Premiers
Players: 31
Brownlow Leader(s): Bill Pearson (13)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Bill Brittingham (58)
W. S. Crichton Medal Recipient(s): Wally Buttsworth

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Dick Reynolds
Vice-Captain(s): Cec Ruddell

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Abbott, Gordon #25 20 R01-R08, R10-R15, R17-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 4
Bower, Ray #16 8 R04-R06, R08, R14, R16-R17, R19 1
Brittingham, Bill #23 21 R01, R03-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 66
Bushby, Percy #35 20 R01-R16, R18, SF, SF(R), GF 3
Buttsworth, Wally #15 22 R01-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 0
Cassin, Jack #19 20 R01-R09, R11-R18, SF, SF(R), GF 28
Dearle, Laurie #10 10 R05-R09, R11-R15 1
Equid, Harry #32 21 R02-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 35
Gardiner, Les #18 22 R01-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 0
Goodingham, Ivan #30 3 R02-R04 1
Green, Fred #26 1 R09 0
Harper, Bert #13 14 R07-R08, R10-R16, R18-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 13
Hassell, George #6 21 R01-R15, R17-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 2
Hill, Russell #28 6 R07, R09, R12-R13, R16, SF(R) 0
Hutchison, Bill #7 21 R01-R13, R15-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 46
Jones, Jack #24 20 R01-R08, R11-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 16
Jory, Ron #27 7 R01-R02, R05, R08-R10, R14 2
Lambert, Chris #14 14 R01-R04, R09-R10, R15-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 2
Lambert, Harold #5 11 R11-R18, SF, SF(R), GF 0
Lane, Gordon #22 21 R01-R15, R17-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 32
Leehane, Ted #9 3 R16-R17, R19 1
Lyons, Jack #26 15 R01-R06, R08-R11, R13-R16, R19 0
Matheson, Allan #4 3 R01-R03 2
McClure, Bob #31 8 R15-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 4
McIvor, Ivor #31 6 R01, R06-R10 4
Pearson, Bill #20 18 R01-R12, R17-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 7
Powell, Ray #17 4 R09-R10, R12, R14 4
Rawle, Keith #2 21 R01-R07, R09-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 19
Reynolds, Dick #3 21 R01-R13, R15-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 33
Ruddell, Cec #21 19 R01-R07, R10-R11, R13-R19, SF, SF(R), GF 0
Tonkes, Herbie #1 19 R01-R08, R10-R14, R16-R19, SF, GF 0

Team Line-Up

Back: Jack Lyons Cec Ruddell Ron Jory
Half-Back: Les Gardiner Wally Buttsworth Jack Jones
Centre: Bill Hutchison Bill Pearson Chris Lambert
Half-Forward: Gordon Lane Ivor McIvor Dick Reynolds
Forward: Allan Matheson Bill Brittingham Gordon Abbott
Follower: Percy Bushby Jack Cassin Keith Rawle
Interchange: George Hassell Herbie Tonkes

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 21 17 -1- 3 R01-R13, R15-R19, SF, SF(R), GF
Ruddell, Cec 1 0 -0- 1 R14

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
20/04/1946 Round 1 Footscray AWAY LOSS FOO by 2 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
27/04/1946 Round 2 South Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 18 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
04/05/1946 Round 3 Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 56 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
11/05/1946 Round 4 Hawthorn AWAY WIN ESS by 103 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
18/05/1946 Round 5 Fitzroy HOME WIN ESS by 40 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
25/05/1946 Round 6 North Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 40 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
01/06/1946 Round 7 St Kilda HOME WIN ESS by 82 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
08/06/1946 Round 8 Richmond AWAY WIN ESS by 37 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
15/06/1946 Round 9 Collingwood HOME WIN ESS by 42 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
22/06/1946 Round 10 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 39 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
06/07/1946 Round 11 Carlton HOME WIN ESS by 21 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
13/07/1946 Round 12 Footscray HOME WIN ESS by 28 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
20/07/1946 Round 13 South Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 1 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
27/07/1946 Round 14 Melbourne AWAY LOSS MEL by 5 Cec Ruddell Cec Ruddell
03/08/1946 Round 15 Hawthorn HOME WIN ESS by 65 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
10/08/1946 Round 16 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FIT by 44 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
17/08/1946 Round 17 North Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 88 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
24/08/1946 Round 18 St Kilda AWAY WIN ESS by 41 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
31/08/1946 Round 19 Richmond HOME WIN ESS by 1 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
14/09/1946 Semi Final Collingwood HOME DRAW drawn Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
21/09/1946 Semi Final (R) Collingwood HOME WIN ESS by 19 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds
05/10/1946 Grand Final Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 63 Dick Reynolds Dick Reynolds