1952 VFL Season: St Kilda

Season Team Details

Season: 1952 VFL Season
Team: St Kilda
Home Ground: Junction Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 12th (W-D-L: 2-0-17, P%: 68.1%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 46
Brownlow Leader(s): Harold Bray (19)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Jack McDonald (31)
Trevor Barker Award Recipient(s): Jim Ross

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Keith Drinan

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Atkinson, Bob #3 3 R14-R16 3
Banfield, Ron #14 5 R08, R11-R13, R19 1
Battams, Ron #22 3 R03-R05 1
Bland, Dave #19 12 R04-R15 5
Bloom, Nick #10 13 R01-R10, R13, R15, R18 12
Bray, Harold #12 16 R01-R07, R09-R12, R14-R15, R17-R19 1
Cameron, Bill #11 6 R05-R10 0
Cockfield, Ken #32 5 R01-R02, R04-R05, R13 0
Coffey, Jack #14 1 R01 2
Davidson, Irving #30 11 R01-R04, R07-R08, R10-R11, R14, R16-R17 1
Dicks, William #1 1 R19 1
Drinan, Keith #25 15 R01-R07, R09, R13-R19 0
Evans, Jack #33 5 R01, R04-R05, R17-R18 0
Fitzgerald, Jim #35 6 R01-R06 0
Greenshields, Allan #5 16 R02-R07, R09-R10, R12-R19 2
Hartigan, Jack #18 3 R17-R19 3
Hibbins, Geoff #34 16 R01-R03, R05-R06, R08, R10-R19 3
Houston, Ray #11 1 R19 0
Hurst, Arthur #26 12 R01-R05, R10-R14, R17-R18 0
Langdon, Mark #23 9 R08-R16 2
Lundgren, Bruce #3 4 R06-R09 0
March, Graham #22 3 R12, R15, R18 1
McDonald, Jack #2 18 R02-R19 31
McLennan, Bruce #31 1 R19 0
McNeil, Tom #18 7 R01-R02, R06-R10 0
Meehan, Tom #21 19 R01-R19 0
Milnes, Brian #16 3 R16-R18 0
Mitchinson, Max #24 7 R01-R03, R06-R07, R16-R17 5
Mollar, Max #29 16 R01-R05, R07-R17 0
Mulhall, Ken #4 10 R01-R03, R06-R10, R18-R19 8
Nisbet, Des #6 10 R01-R04, R06-R11 0
Phillips, Bruce #14 18 R01-R12, R14-R19 8
Riley, Cliff #31 12 R03, R06, R08-R16, R18 8
Roberts, Neil #33 7 R13-R19 13
Ross, Jim #20 17 R01-R05, R08-R19 20
Slate, Rodney #9 1 R19 0
Slocomb, Syd #35 2 R11-R12 0
Smith, Ivor #28 9 R11-R19 0
Smith, John #28 4 R11-R12, R16-R17 2
Solomon, John #16 4 R04-R07 4
Squire, Alan #7 17 R01-R03, R06-R19 4
Sutherland, Frank #3 1 R02 0
Toohey, Jack #33 6 R11-R16 0
Wandin, Jim #27 11 R04-R09, R13, R16-R19 3
Watt, Bob #30 1 R19 1
Woinarski, Brian #8 13 R01, R03-R05, R07-R15 0

Team Line-Up

Back: Max Mollar Tom Meehan Bill Cameron
Half-Back: Des Nisbet Bruce Phillips Jim Wandin
Centre: Brian Woinarski Mark Langdon Bruce Lundgren
Half-Forward: Jack McDonald Jim Ross Tom McNeil
Forward: Alan Squire Ken Mulhall Cliff Riley
Follower: Dave Bland Geoff Hibbins Nick Bloom
Interchange: Ron Banfield Irving Davidson

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)
Williamson, Col 19 2 -0- 17 R01-R19

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
19/04/1952 Round 1 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 8 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
26/04/1952 Round 2 Melbourne HOME LOSS MEL by 2 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
03/05/1952 Round 3 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 65 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
10/05/1952 Round 4 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 20 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
17/05/1952 Round 5 Essendon HOME LOSS ESS by 40 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
31/05/1952 Round 6 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 21 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
07/06/1952 Round 7 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FIT by 39 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
14/06/1952 Round 8 Footscray AWAY WIN STK by 15 Col Williamson unknown
21/06/1952 Round 9 Hawthorn HOME LOSS HAW by 7 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
28/06/1952 Round 10 North Melbourne AWAY LOSS NOR by 25 Col Williamson unknown
05/07/1952 Round 11 Footscray HOME LOSS FOO by 6 Col Williamson unknown
12/07/1952 Round 12 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 33 Col Williamson unknown
19/07/1952 Round 13 South Melbourne HOME LOSS SOU by 6 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
26/07/1952 Round 14 Melbourne AWAY LOSS MEL by 20 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
02/08/1952 Round 15 Geelong HOME LOSS GEE by 15 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
09/08/1952 Round 16 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 84 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
16/08/1952 Round 17 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 96 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
23/08/1952 Round 18 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 36 Col Williamson Keith Drinan
30/08/1952 Round 19 Fitzroy HOME WIN STK by 6 Col Williamson Keith Drinan