1955 Round 5: Essendon v Melbourne

Match Details

Season: 1955 VFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: Essendon v Melbourne
Date: Saturday, May 14th, 1955
Time: 2:15 PM
Venue: Windy Hill
Attendance: 25,299
Capacity: unknown

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. by Melbourne
Score: 8.11.59 - 10.13.73

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 1 . 3 3 . 3 8 . 8 8 . 11 8 . 11 (59)
Melbourne 1 . 1 4 . 6 7 . 6 10 . 13 10 . 13 (73)
Margin ESS by 2 MEL by 9 ESS by 8 MEL by 14 MEL by 14
Duration

Honour Roll

Coach(es): Dick Reynolds (Essendon), Norm Smith (Melbourne)
Captain(s): Bill Hutchison (Essendon), Noel McMahen (Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire(s): Bill Barbour
Goal Umpire(s):
Boundary Umpire(s):
Umpire Replacement(s): No known replacements

Brownlow Votes

3 - unknown/invalid 2 - unknown/invalid 1 - unknown/invalid

Player Statistics (Basic)

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH
2 Booth, Stan ? ? 0 ?
18 Burgess, Reg ? ? 0 ?
20 Carstairs, Jim ? ? 0 ?
1 Clarke, Jack ? ? 0 ?
6 Dench, Doug ? ? 0 ?
12 Diston, Morton ? ? 0 ?
24 Fox, Robert ? ? 0 ?
13 Gallagher, Fred ? ? 0 ?
3 Gill, John ? ? 0 ?
23 Harrington, Jack ? ? 0 ?
14 Heenan, Jim ? ? 0 ?
7 Hutchison, Bill ? ? 2 ?
21 Knowles, Jack ? ? 0 ?
30 Leek, Geoff ? ? 1 ?
25 McConnell, Roy ? ? 0 ?
31 Mitchell, Hugh ? ? 3 ?
34 Pascoe, Mal ? ? 0 ?
27 Peucker, Ken ? ? 2 ?
9 Sewell, Greg ? ? 0 ?
33 Towner, John ? ? 0 ?
Rushed ?
Total 8 11

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH
6 Adams, Frank ? ? 1 ?
21 Baker, Noel ? ? 0 ?
31 Barassi, Ron ? ? 1 ?
30 Beckwith, John ? ? 0 ?
29 Bull, Tony ? ? 0 ?
7 Case, Geoff ? ? 0 ?
26 Clarke, Noel ? ? 1 ?
1 Cordner, Denis ? ? 0 ?
9 Dixon, Brian ? ? 0 ?
18 Johnson, Bob ? ? 1 ?
16 Laidlaw, Clyde ? ? 1 ?
34 Lane, Ralph ? ? 0 ?
3 Marquis, Peter ? ? 0 ?
5 McLean, Ian ? ? 0 ?
35 McMahen, Noel ? ? 0 ?
38 Melville, Ken ? ? 0 ?
11 Mithen, Laurie ? ? 2 ?
12 Spencer, Stuart ? ? 3 ?
25 Williams, Don ? ? 0 ?
33 Wilson, Colin ? ? 0 ?
Rushed ?
Total 10 13

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CP: Contested Posessions, UP: Uncontested Posessions, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s, MF: Marks Inside 50, RB: Running Bounces, OP: One-Percenters, GA: Goal Assists

Player Line-Up

Essendon Coach: Dick Reynolds
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Melbourne Coach: Norm Smith

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