1946 VFL Season: Fitzroy

Season Team Details

Season: 1946 VFL Season
Team: Fitzroy
Home Ground: Brunswick Street Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 8th (W-D-L: 9-0-10, P%: 118.7%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 41
Brownlow Leader(s): Allan Ruthven (16)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Claude Curtin (56)
Mitchell Medal Recipient(s): Allan Ruthven

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Fred Hughson

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Broadway, Allan #32 3 R17-R19 2
Calverley, Des #19 2 R01-R02 3
Chanter, Vic #24 5 R06-R09, R11 0
Clay, Bert #31 19 R01-R19 6
Clay, Ivor #34 2 R05-R06 0
Collins, Jack #1 3 R14, R18-R19 0
Cox, Colin #10 1 R10 0
Crouch, Laurie #26 2 R13-R14 1
Curcio, Frank #18 17 R01-R04, R06-R18 0
Curtin, Claude #33 19 R01-R19 56
Dawson, Stan #5 6 R02-R03, R06, R08-R09, R11 2
Denning, Clen #32 15 R01-R04, R09-R19 0
Dyring, Lindsay #2 9 R05-R13 0
Fields, Allan #23 14 R01-R02, R07-R18 2
Fox, Kevin #3 16 R04-R19 24
Gemmell, Leon #15 5 R05, R07, R09, R17-R18 0
Gillespie-Jones, Audley #30 1 R19 0
Hart, Eddie #25 11 R03-R05, R10-R12, R15-R19 24
Hill, Les #16 4 R01-R02, R04-R05 0
Hillard, Norm #8 4 R01, R04-R06 0
Horan, Monty #9 4 R01-R02, R14-R15 0
Hoskins, George #14 14 R01-R10, R12-R13, R15-R16 0
Hughson, Fred #6 18 R01-R11, R13-R19 0
Hughson, Mick #4 18 R01-R12, R14-R19 9
Jarvis, Noel #27 19 R01-R19 4
Johnstone, Norm #17 16 R01-R16 19
Linney, Charlie #11 3 R06-R08 0
McLaughlin, Alan #19 17 R03-R19 1
Miller, Bob #12 8 R10, R13-R19 0
Nicholls, Reg #10 11 R08, R10-R19 0
O'Bryan, Arthur #24 4 R01-R04 0
Price, Noel #22 15 R01-R08, R13-R19 9
Reidy, Norm 1 R07 0
Ruthven, Allan #7 18 R01-R13, R15-R19 37
Shillinglaw, Harold #20 6 R06-R09, R11-R12 1
Sier, Ken #10 13 R01-R03, R05, R11-R19 4
Smith, Merv #34 2 R03, R19 0
Symons, Jack #29 8 R01-R05, R09, R12-R13 9
Vandersluys, Stan #30 1 R10 0
Winberg, Harold #21 15 R03-R14, R16-R17, R19 5
Wright, Stan #35 11 R01-R04, R12, R14-R19 4

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)
Hughson, Fred 19 9 -0- 10 R01-R19

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
20/04/1946 Round 1 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 4 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
27/04/1946 Round 2 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 16 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
04/05/1946 Round 3 Geelong HOME WIN FIT by 76 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
11/05/1946 Round 4 Carlton AWAY WIN FIT by 62 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
18/05/1946 Round 5 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 40 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
25/05/1946 Round 6 South Melbourne HOME LOSS SOU by 9 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
01/06/1946 Round 7 Melbourne AWAY WIN FIT by 56 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
08/06/1946 Round 8 Hawthorn HOME WIN FIT by 34 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
15/06/1946 Round 9 Footscray AWAY LOSS FOO by 7 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
22/06/1946 Round 10 North Melbourne AWAY LOSS NOR by 10 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
06/07/1946 Round 11 St Kilda HOME WIN FIT by 33 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
13/07/1946 Round 12 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 26 Fred Hughson unknown
20/07/1946 Round 13 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 5 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
27/07/1946 Round 14 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 8 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
03/08/1946 Round 15 Carlton HOME WIN FIT by 20 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
10/08/1946 Round 16 Essendon HOME WIN FIT by 44 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
17/08/1946 Round 17 South Melbourne AWAY WIN FIT by 29 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
24/08/1946 Round 18 Melbourne HOME LOSS MEL by 4 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
31/08/1946 Round 19 Hawthorn AWAY WIN FIT by 25 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson