1954 VFL Season: Essendon

Season Team Details

Season: 1954 VFL Season
Team: Essendon
Home Ground: Windy Hill

Team Results

Ladder Position: 6th (W-D-L: 10-0-8, P%: 107.8%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 30
Brownlow Leader(s): John Gill (14)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): John Coleman (42)
W. S. Crichton Medal Recipient(s): John Gill

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Bill Hutchison

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Bigelow, Doug #19 18 R01-R18 1
Booth, Stan #2 18 R01-R18 32
Bradley, Kevin #12 2 R01-R02 1
Burgess, Reg #18 16 R02-R04, R06-R18 0
Carstairs, Jim #20 18 R01-R18 1
Clarke, Jack #1 15 R01-R12, R14, R17-R18 2
Coleman, John #10 6 R01, R03-R04, R06-R08 42
Colliver, Barry #4 2 R10-R11 0
Gallagher, Fred #13 10 R01, R05, R11-R18 0
Gamble, Jeff #22 12 R01-R05, R10, R12-R17 3
Gill, John #3 12 R06-R12, R14-R18 16
Gnaden, Bill #17 2 R02, R07 0
Harrington, Jack #23 15 R01-R14, R18 6
Heenan, Jim #14 15 R04-R18 0
Hutchison, Bill #7 17 R01-R12, R14-R18 32
Jones, Jack #24 14 R01, R06-R18 14
Knowles, Jack #21 17 R02-R18 0
Leek, Geoff #30 16 R01-R09, R11, R13-R18 5
Mann, Lance #32 13 R01, R03, R06, R09-R18 5
McColl, Jim #26 2 R07-R08 0
McConnell, Roy #25 12 R01-R10, R13, R15 0
Mitchell, Hugh #31 18 R01-R18 19
Morris, Hugh #6 5 R02, R04-R05, R13, R15 0
O'Sullivan, Peter #16 7 R01-R03, R05, R07, R13, R16 0
Pascoe, Mal #34 17 R01-R06, R08-R18 0
Peucker, Ken #27 10 R04-R05, R07-R09, R12, R15-R18 3
Sewell, Greg #9 17 R01-R06, R08-R18 1
Taylor, Bob #15 15 R03-R14, R16-R18 0
Thaw, Alan #8 3 R01-R03 0
Towner, John #33 16 R01-R06, R09-R18 23

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)
Reynolds, Dick 18 10 -0- 8 R01-R18

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
19/04/1954 Round 1 Hawthorn AWAY WIN ESS by 34 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
24/04/1954 Round 2 South Melbourne HOME LOSS SOU by 13 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
01/05/1954 Round 3 Geelong HOME LOSS GEE by 16 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
08/05/1954 Round 4 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 13 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
15/05/1954 Round 5 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 3 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
22/05/1954 Round 6 Footscray AWAY LOSS FOO by 49 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
29/05/1954 Round 7 Fitzroy HOME WIN ESS by 91 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
05/06/1954 Round 8 North Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 23 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
14/06/1954 Round 9 Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 22 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
26/06/1954 Round 10 St Kilda AWAY WIN ESS by 13 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
03/07/1954 Round 11 Richmond HOME WIN ESS by 3 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
10/07/1954 Round 12 Hawthorn HOME WIN ESS by 31 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
24/07/1954 Round 13 South Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 20 Dick Reynolds unknown
31/07/1954 Round 14 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 34 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
07/08/1954 Round 15 Collingwood HOME WIN ESS by 19 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
14/08/1954 Round 16 Carlton AWAY WIN ESS by 4 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
21/08/1954 Round 17 Footscray HOME LOSS FOO by 19 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
28/08/1954 Round 18 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FIT by 6 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison