1955 VFL Season: Essendon

Season Team Details

Season: 1955 VFL Season
Team: Essendon
Home Ground: Windy Hill

Team Results

Ladder Position: 4th (W-D-L: 12-0-6, P%: 130.6%)
Finals Performance: Knocked out by Geelong (Semi Final)
Players: 31
Brownlow Leader(s): Bill Hutchison (20)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Hugh Mitchell (51)
W. S. Crichton Medal Recipient(s): Bill Hutchison

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Bill Hutchison

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Bigelow, Doug #19 17 R01-R04, R06, R08-R18, SF 3
Booth, Stan #2 14 R01-R07, R10, R12-R14, R16-R17, SF 10
Burgess, Reg #18 19 R01-R18, SF 0
Carmichael, Don #32 3 R12-R13, R16 0
Carstairs, Jim #20 19 R01-R18, SF 3
Chapman, Keith #36 6 R12-R16, R18 1
Clarke, Jack #1 16 R01-R11, R14-R15, R17-R18, SF 1
Colliver, Barry #4 5 R04, R08-R11 1
Dench, Doug #6 18 R01-R09, R11-R18, SF 0
Diston, Morton #12 5 R05-R09 2
Fox, Robert #24 19 R01-R18, SF 24
Gallagher, Fred #13 14 R02, R04-R12, R15-R16, R18, SF 1
Gamble, Jeff #22 8 R01-R02, R10-R15 4
Gill, John #3 16 R01-R05, R08-R12, R14-R18, SF 12
Harrington, Jack #23 19 R01-R18, SF 2
Heenan, Jim #14 16 R03-R15, R17-R18, SF 0
Hutchison, Bill #7 19 R01-R18, SF 32
Knowles, Jack #21 9 R01-R03, R05-R07, R13-R14, R17 0
Leek, Geoff #30 19 R01-R18, SF 4
McConnell, Roy #25 19 R01-R18, SF 0
Mitchell, Hugh #31 19 R01-R18, SF 51
Monks, Ian #29 4 R07-R10 2
O'Sullivan, Peter #16 9 R01, R04, R07-R08, R11, R16-R18, SF 0
Pascoe, Mal #34 14 R01-R09, R15-R18, SF 6
Peucker, Ken #27 17 R01-R06, R09-R18, SF 27
Prest, Warren #28 2 R01, R07 0
Reed, Ken #35 2 R03, R13 0
Sewell, Greg #9 19 R01-R18, SF 12
Taylor, Bob #15 12 R02-R03, R10-R18, SF 0
Towner, John #33 1 R05 0
Willey, Graham #37 1 R06 2

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 19 12 -0- 7 R01-R18, SF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
16/04/1955 Round 1 Richmond AWAY WIN ESS by 17 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
23/04/1955 Round 2 St Kilda HOME WIN ESS by 65 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
30/04/1955 Round 3 North Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 11 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
07/05/1955 Round 4 Footscray AWAY LOSS FOO by 13 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
14/05/1955 Round 5 Melbourne HOME LOSS MEL by 14 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
21/05/1955 Round 6 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 54 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
28/05/1955 Round 7 Hawthorn HOME LOSS HAW by 5 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
04/06/1955 Round 8 South Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 38 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
11/06/1955 Round 9 Carlton AWAY WIN ESS by 58 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
25/06/1955 Round 10 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 13 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
02/07/1955 Round 11 Fitzroy HOME WIN ESS by 26 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
09/07/1955 Round 12 Richmond HOME WIN ESS by 41 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
16/07/1955 Round 13 St Kilda AWAY WIN ESS by 45 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
23/07/1955 Round 14 North Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 64 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
30/07/1955 Round 15 Footscray HOME WIN ESS by 20 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
06/08/1955 Round 16 Melbourne AWAY LOSS MEL by 65 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
13/08/1955 Round 17 Collingwood HOME WIN ESS by 73 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
20/08/1955 Round 18 Hawthorn AWAY WIN ESS by 42 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
27/08/1955 Semi Final Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 8 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison