1956 VFL Season: Footscray

Season Team Details

Season: 1956 VFL Season
Team: Footscray
Home Ground: Western Oval (Whitten Oval)

Team Results

Ladder Position: 4th (W-D-L: 11-0-7, P%: 114.2%)
Finals Performance: Knocked out by Collingwood (Preliminary Final)
Players: 37
Brownlow Leader(s): Peter Box (22)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Max Cross (46)
Charles Sutton Medal Recipient(s): Don Ross

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Wally Donald, Charlie Sutton

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Box, Peter #5 19 R01-R09, R11-R18, SF, PF 2
Broadway, Ray #37 2 R06-R07 0
Buckley, Brian #19 3 R02, R04-R05 0
Clough, Alan #27 4 R03-R04, R15-R16 0
Collins, Bob #23 6 R01, R03, R09-R12 0
Collins, Jack #2 18 R01-R04, R07-R18, SF, PF 38
Cross, Max #8 16 R05-R18, SF, PF 52
Dickson, Noel #18 14 R01-R14 10
Dixon, Ron #29 8 R04-R06, R15-R17, SF, PF 0
Donald, Wally #22 18 R01-R06, R08-R14, R16-R18, SF, PF 0
Duffy, Roger #7 18 R01-R16, SF, PF 20
Edwards, Arthur #11 19 R01-R04, R06-R18, SF, PF 1
Gallagher, Jim #24 15 R01-R07, R09, R11, R15-R18, SF, PF 0
Gardiner, Alex #12 3 R03, R17-R18 2
Gilmore, Brian #34 18 R01-R08, R10-R16, R18, SF, PF 7
Guthrie, Byron #36 3 R08, R10, R18 0
Henderson, Herb #25 14 R01-R13, PF 0
Henriksen, Ron #40 3 R12-R14 0
Kerr, John #1 19 R01-R04, R06-R18, SF, PF 18
Letcher, Ian #4 8 R01-R06, R10, R12 0
McCarthy, Ron #33 1 R07 0
McRae, Peter #20 7 R14-R18, SF, PF 0
Porta, Ron #21 17 R04-R18, SF, PF 0
Rawson, Don #33 16 R04-R06, R08-R18, SF, PF 0
Reynolds, Doug #28 16 R01-R02, R05-R06, R08-R11, R13-R18, SF, PF 2
Ross, Don #9 20 R01-R18, SF, PF 7
Ryan, Lionel #31 12 R01-R09, R13, R17, PF 7
Smith, Kevin #14 3 R01-R02, R18 4
Smith, Kevin #16 8 R10-R16, SF 0
Stevens, Harvey #32 7 R14-R18, SF, PF 9
Stockman, Ron #17 19 R01-R05, R07-R18, SF, PF 0
Sutton, Charlie #6 2 R01, R05 0
Thompson, Graham #35 1 R03 0
Westacott, John #10 16 R01-R02, R05-R15, R17-R18, SF 0
White, Kevin #38 4 R01, R07-R09 0
Whitten, Don #30 5 R02-R03, R07, R10, R17 0
Whitten, Ted #3 18 R02-R09, R11-R18, SF, PF 16

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)
Sutton, Charlie 20 12 -0- 8 R01-R18, SF, PF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
14/04/1956 Round 1 Fitzroy HOME WIN FOO by 29 Charlie Sutton unknown
21/04/1956 Round 2 St Kilda AWAY WIN FOO by 28 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
28/04/1956 Round 3 Melbourne HOME LOSS MEL by 26 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
05/05/1956 Round 4 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 14 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
12/05/1956 Round 5 South Melbourne HOME WIN FOO by 10 Charlie Sutton unknown
19/05/1956 Round 6 Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 3 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
26/05/1956 Round 7 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 1 Charlie Sutton unknown
04/06/1956 Round 8 Essendon AWAY WIN FOO by 24 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
09/06/1956 Round 9 Richmond HOME WIN FOO by 42 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
16/06/1956 Round 10 Geelong HOME WIN FOO by 22 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
30/06/1956 Round 11 North Melbourne AWAY WIN FOO by 10 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
07/07/1956 Round 12 Fitzroy AWAY WIN FOO by 10 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
14/07/1956 Round 13 St Kilda HOME LOSS STK by 1 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
21/07/1956 Round 14 Melbourne AWAY WIN FOO by 13 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
28/07/1956 Round 15 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 32 Charlie Sutton unknown
04/08/1956 Round 16 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 7 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
11/08/1956 Round 17 Hawthorn HOME WIN FOO by 43 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
18/08/1956 Round 18 Carlton AWAY WIN FOO by 17 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
25/08/1956 Semi Final Geelong AWAY WIN FOO by 2 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald
08/09/1956 Preliminary Final Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 39 Charlie Sutton Wally Donald