1955 Semi Final 1: Geelong v Essendon

Match Details

Season: 1955 VFL Season
Round: Semi Final 1
Teams: Geelong v Essendon
Date: Saturday, August 27th, 1955
Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 68,109
Capacity: unknown

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. Essendon
Score: 9.7.61 - 7.11.53

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Geelong 3 . 1 6 . 4 7 . 6 9 . 7 9 . 7 (61)
Essendon 0 . 2 1 . 4 2 . 7 7 . 11 7 . 11 (53)
Margin GEE by 17 GEE by 30 GEE by 29 GEE by 8 GEE by 8
Duration

Honour Roll

Coach(es): Reg Hickey (Geelong), Dick Reynolds (Essendon)
Captain(s): unknown (Geelong), Bill Hutchison (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire(s): Harry Beitzel
Goal Umpire(s):
Boundary Umpire(s):
Umpire Replacement(s): No known replacements

Player Statistics (Basic)

Geelong

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH
9 Barton, Colin ? ? 0 ?
34 Beardsley, Ken ? ? 0 ?
14 Borrack, Les ? ? 0 ?
32 Brown, Clive ? ? 0 ?
29 Bullen, Roger ? ? 0 ?
16 Cameron, Ken ? ? 0 ?
23 Gazzard, Bob ? ? 0 ?
1 Goggin, Matt ? ? 1 ?
10 Haygarth, John ? ? 0 ?
12 Hovey, Ron ? ? 0 ?
22 McMahon, John ? ? 1 ?
17 O'Neill, John ? ? 0 ?
6 Pianto, Peter ? ? 2 ?
27 Rayson, Noel ? ? 1 ?
8 Renfrey, Russ ? ? 1 ?
26 Sharp, Norm ? ? 0 ?
11 Smith, Bernie ? ? 0 ?
31 Sutcliffe, Max ? ? 1 ?
28 Trezise, Neil ? ? 2 ?
21 Williams, Geoff ? ? 0 ?
Rushed ?
Total 9 7

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH
19 Bigelow, Doug ? ? 0 ?
2 Booth, Stan ? ? 0 ?
18 Burgess, Reg ? ? 0 ?
20 Carstairs, Jim ? ? 0 ?
1 Clarke, Jack ? ? 0 ?
6 Dench, Doug ? ? 0 ?
24 Fox, Robert ? ? 3 ?
13 Gallagher, Fred ? ? 0 ?
3 Gill, John ? ? 0 ?
23 Harrington, Jack ? ? 0 ?
14 Heenan, Jim ? ? 0 ?
7 Hutchison, Bill ? ? 0 ?
30 Leek, Geoff ? ? 0 ?
25 McConnell, Roy ? ? 0 ?
31 Mitchell, Hugh ? ? 0 ?
16 O'Sullivan, Peter ? ? 0 ?
34 Pascoe, Mal ? ? 0 ?
27 Peucker, Ken ? ? 3 ?
9 Sewell, Greg ? ? 1 ?
15 Taylor, Bob ? ? 0 ?
Rushed ?
Total 7 11

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

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Essendon Coach: Dick Reynolds

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