1956 Round 3: Footscray v Melbourne

Match Details

Season: 1956 VFL Season
Round: Round 3
Teams: Footscray v Melbourne
Date: Saturday, April 28th, 1956
Time: 2:15 PM
Venue: Western Oval (Whitten Oval)
Attendance: 33,265
Capacity: unknown

Match Results

Outcome: Footscray def. by Melbourne
Score: 5.11.41 - 9.13.67

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Footscray 2 . 6 2 . 8 5 . 10 5 . 11 5 . 11 (41)
Melbourne 1 . 2 3 . 4 5 . 6 9 . 13 9 . 13 (67)
Margin FOO by 10 MEL by 2 FOO by 4 MEL by 26 MEL by 26
Duration

Honour Roll

Coach(es): Charlie Sutton (Footscray), Norm Smith (Melbourne)
Captain(s): Wally Donald (Footscray), 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)

Footscray

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH
5 Box, Peter ? ? 0 ?
27 Clough, Alan ? ? 0 ?
23 Collins, Bob ? ? 0 ?
2 Collins, Jack ? ? 2 ?
18 Dickson, Noel ? ? 0 ?
22 Donald, Wally ? ? 0 ?
7 Duffy, Roger ? ? 2 ?
11 Edwards, Arthur ? ? 0 ?
24 Gallagher, Jim ? ? 0 ?
12 Gardiner, Alex ? ? 0 ?
34 Gilmore, Brian ? ? 0 ?
25 Henderson, Herb ? ? 0 ?
1 Kerr, John ? ? 0 ?
4 Letcher, Ian ? ? 0 ?
9 Ross, Don ? ? 0 ?
31 Ryan, Lionel ? ? 1 ?
17 Stockman, Ron ? ? 0 ?
35 Thompson, Graham ? ? 0 ?
30 Whitten, Don ? ? 0 ?
3 Whitten, Ted ? ? 0 ?
Rushed ?
Total 5 11

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH
31 Barassi, Ron ? ? 1 ?
30 Beckwith, John ? ? 0 ?
29 Bull, Tony ? ? 0 ?
19 Carroll, Keith ? ? 0 ?
7 Case, Geoff ? ? 0 ?
1 Cordner, Denis ? ? 0 ?
28 Gleeson, Terry ? ? 0 ?
18 Johnson, Bob ? ? 2 ?
14 Johnson, Trevor ? ? 0 ?
16 Laidlaw, Clyde ? ? 0 ?
34 Lane, Ralph ? ? 0 ?
17 McGivern, Geoff ? ? 0 ?
5 McLean, Ian ? ? 0 ?
35 McMahen, Noel ? ? 0 ?
38 Melville, Ken ? ? 0 ?
11 Mithen, Laurie ? ? 0 ?
24 Ridley, Ian ? ? 2 ?
12 Spencer, Stuart ? ? 3 ?
15 Webb, Athol ? ? 1 ?
25 Williams, Don ? ? 0 ?
Rushed ?
Total 9 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

Footscray Coach: Charlie Sutton
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Melbourne Coach: Norm Smith

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