1947 VFL Season: Fitzroy

Season Team Details

Season: 1947 VFL Season
Team: Fitzroy
Home Ground: Brunswick Street Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 3rd (W-D-L: 13-0-6, P%: 126.7%)
Finals Performance: Knocked out by Essendon (Preliminary Final)
Players: 33
Brownlow Leader(s): Fred Hughson (16)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Eddie Hart (56)
Mitchell Medal Recipient(s): Norm Johnstone

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Fred Hughson

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Brown, Jim #4 9 R01-R07, R09, R19 5
Chanter, Vic #24 13 R09-R19, SF, PF 0
Chipp, Don #3 3 R03-R04, R16 1
Clay, Bert #31 19 R01-R14, R16-R18, SF, PF 9
Coates, George #2 15 R05-R14, R17-R19, SF, PF 18
Collins, Jack #1 8 R01-R07, R10 10
Curcio, Frank #18 18 R01-R05, R07-R17, SF, PF 1
Curtin, Claude #33 18 R01, R03-R08, R11-R19, SF, PF 25
Denning, Clen #32 21 R01-R19, SF, PF 0
Fields, Allan #23 16 R04-R08, R11-R19, SF, PF 7
Hart, Eddie #25 16 R01-R03, R07, R09-R14, R16-R19, SF, PF 64
Hart, Kevin #16 2 R15-R16 2
Hoskins, George #14 19 R01-R18, PF 0
Hughson, Fred #6 21 R01-R19, SF, PF 0
Jarvis, Noel #27 20 R01-R15, R17-R19, SF, PF 1
Johnstone, Norm #17 21 R01-R19, SF, PF 15
Kennedy, Dick #9 12 R08-R13, R15-R19, SF 7
Kettle, Jim #32 8 R02-R06, R08, R11, R19 5
McLaughlin, Alan #19 17 R01-R02, R07-R19, SF, PF 1
Miller, Bob #12 11 R01, R07-R08, R10-R12, R17-R19, SF, PF 1
Monaghan, Leo #26 4 R18-R19, SF, PF 7
Nicholls, Reg #20 18 R01-R03, R07-R19, SF, PF 1
O'Reilly, Neil #35 1 R08 0
Owens, Llew #21 5 R11-R15 3
Price, Noel #22 13 R01-R06, R15-R19, SF, PF 11
Ruthven, Allan #7 20 R01-R15, R17-R19, SF, PF 56
Shillinglaw, Harold #30 10 R02-R08, R10, R16, PF 0
Sier, Ken #10 13 R01-R10, R15, R19, SF 3
Smith, Merv #34 6 R01-R02, R04-R06, R09 0
Stephen, Bill #8 10 R01-R06, R09, R14-R16 0
Tonn, Heinz #11 6 R06, R13-R14, R16-R18 2
Toohey, Jack #12 11 R09-R15, R17-R19, SF 6
Vandersluys, Stan #28 16 R01-R10, R12-R16, PF 13

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 21 14 -0- 7 R01-R19, SF, PF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
19/04/1947 Round 1 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 46 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
26/04/1947 Round 2 Richmond HOME WIN FIT by 23 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
03/05/1947 Round 3 Melbourne HOME WIN FIT by 9 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
10/05/1947 Round 4 North Melbourne AWAY WIN FIT by 101 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
17/05/1947 Round 5 St Kilda HOME WIN FIT by 76 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
24/05/1947 Round 6 South Melbourne HOME LOSS SOU by 38 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
31/05/1947 Round 7 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 9 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
07/06/1947 Round 8 Footscray AWAY LOSS FOO by 34 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
14/06/1947 Round 9 Hawthorn HOME WIN FIT by 49 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
21/06/1947 Round 10 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 13 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
28/06/1947 Round 11 Geelong AWAY WIN FIT by 11 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
05/07/1947 Round 12 Collingwood HOME WIN FIT by 17 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
12/07/1947 Round 13 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 6 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
19/07/1947 Round 14 Melbourne AWAY WIN FIT by 22 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
26/07/1947 Round 15 North Melbourne HOME WIN FIT by 47 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
02/08/1947 Round 16 St Kilda AWAY WIN FIT by 14 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
16/08/1947 Round 17 South Melbourne AWAY WIN FIT by 11 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
23/08/1947 Round 18 Essendon HOME WIN FIT by 68 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
30/08/1947 Round 19 Footscray HOME WIN FIT by 64 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
06/09/1947 Semi Final Richmond HOME WIN FIT by 28 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson
20/09/1947 Preliminary Final Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 13 Fred Hughson Fred Hughson