1957 VFL Season: Essendon

Season Team Details

Season: 1957 VFL Season
Team: Essendon
Home Ground: Windy Hill

Team Results

Ladder Position: 2nd (W-D-L: 11-0-7, P%: 118.3%)
Finals Performance: Runners-Up
Players: 33
Brownlow Leader(s): Jack Clarke (11)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Fred Gallagher (31)
W. S. Crichton Medal Recipient(s): Reg Burgess

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Bill Hutchison
Vice-Captain(s): Geoff Leek

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Birt, Johnny #11 20 R01-R18, SF, GF 29
Booth, Stan #2 20 R01-R18, SF, GF 23
Burgess, Reg #18 18 R01-R09, R12-R18, SF, GF 3
Carmichael, Don #32 7 R02, R04, R07, R13-R14, R16-R17 1
Carstairs, Jim #20 1 R04 0
Clarke, Jack #1 17 R01-R09, R12-R15, R17-R18, SF, GF 4
Donohoe, Brian #26 8 R01-R08 1
Driscoll, Frank #16 4 R01-R03, R10 10
Elliott, Trevor #19 1 R08 0
Fox, Robert #24 18 R01-R08, R11-R18, SF, GF 2
Gallagher, Fred #13 12 R03, R05-R09, R11-R14, SF, GF 34
Gamble, Jeff #22 19 R01-R12, R14-R18, SF, GF 0
Gill, John #3 18 R01-R03, R05-R06, R08-R18, SF, GF 13
Gluyas, Bob #38 8 R10-R12, R15-R18, SF 14
Green, Kevin #37 2 R17-R18 0
Harrington, Jack #23 4 R01-R02, R09-R10 0
Hebbard, Col #4 16 R01, R06-R18, SF, GF 16
Heenan, Jim #14 14 R01, R07-R11, R13-R18, SF, GF 6
Hutchison, Bill #7 16 R01-R09, R11-R15, SF, GF 22
Knowles, Jack #21 18 R01-R06, R08-R18, GF 0
Leek, Geoff #30 20 R01-R18, SF, GF 12
Maloney, Leo #10 7 R04-R07, R15, R18, GF 2
McColl, Jim #28 1 SF 0
Mitchell, Hugh #31 20 R01-R18, SF, GF 15
Murdoch, Alby #15 6 R05, R10-R11, R16-R18 0
Pascoe, Mal #34 19 R01-R07, R09-R18, SF, GF 4
Pridham, Les #6 1 R10 0
Sewell, Greg #9 18 R01-R16, SF, GF 1
Shearman, Bob #35 20 R01-R18, SF, GF 1
Suter, Bob #5 19 R02-R18, SF, GF 0
Timms, Ken #25 4 R01-R04 2
Towner, John #33 16 R03-R06, R09-R18, SF, GF 0
Webster, Eric #27 8 R07-R13, R16 0

Team Line-Up

Back: Bob Suter Jack Knowles Mal Pascoe
Half-Back: Bob Shearman Jeff Gamble John Towner
Centre: Reg Burgess Jack Clarke Greg Sewell
Half-Forward: Col Hebbard Robert Fox Stan Booth
Forward: Geoff Leek Fred Gallagher Johnny Birt
Follower: John Gill Hugh Mitchell Bill Hutchison
Interchange: Jim Heenan Leo Maloney

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 20 12 -0- 8 R01-R18, SF, GF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
20/04/1957 Round 1 Collingwood AWAY WIN ESS by 35 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
27/04/1957 Round 2 Fitzroy HOME WIN ESS by 11 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
04/05/1957 Round 3 Melbourne AWAY LOSS MEL by 45 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
11/05/1957 Round 4 Footscray HOME WIN ESS by 42 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
18/05/1957 Round 5 South Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 42 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
25/05/1957 Round 6 Hawthorn HOME LOSS HAW by 8 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
01/06/1957 Round 7 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 25 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
08/06/1957 Round 8 Geelong HOME WIN ESS by 36 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
15/06/1957 Round 9 St Kilda AWAY WIN ESS by 45 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
22/06/1957 Round 10 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 27 Dick Reynolds Geoff Leek
29/06/1957 Round 11 North Melbourne HOME LOSS NOR by 9 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
06/07/1957 Round 12 Collingwood HOME WIN ESS by 15 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
13/07/1957 Round 13 Fitzroy AWAY WIN ESS by 20 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
27/07/1957 Round 14 Melbourne HOME LOSS MEL by 1 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
03/08/1957 Round 15 Footscray AWAY WIN ESS by 33 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
10/08/1957 Round 16 South Melbourne HOME WIN ESS by 20 Dick Reynolds Geoff Leek
17/08/1957 Round 17 Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 21 Dick Reynolds Geoff Leek
24/08/1957 Round 18 Carlton HOME WIN ESS by 61 Dick Reynolds Geoff Leek
07/09/1957 Semi Final Melbourne AWAY WIN ESS by 16 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison
21/09/1957 Grand Final Melbourne HOME LOSS MEL by 61 Dick Reynolds Bill Hutchison