1959 VFL Season: St Kilda

Season Team Details

Season: 1959 VFL Season
Team: St Kilda
Home Ground: Junction Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 8th (W-D-L: 9-0-9, P%: 94.3%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 37
Brownlow Leader(s): Verdun Howell (20)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Bill Young (45)
Trevor Barker Award Recipient(s): Verdun Howell

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Neil Roberts

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Annand, Bud #20 15 R01-R15 0
Apted, Roy #9 5 R01, R12, R15, R17-R18 0
Bowe, Brian #43 8 R08, R12-R18 0
Burgess, Terry #42 5 R13-R15, R17-R18 1
Burns, Peter #36 1 R18 1
Coady, Bill #29 9 R10-R18 0
Coffey, Jack #1 2 R07-R08 0
Davies, Harold #12 5 R12-R16 0
Feehan, Geoff #4 12 R01-R03, R06-R07, R09, R12-R16, R18 0
Fox, Lindsay #33 7 R02, R04-R06, R09, R17-R18 0
Garlick, Leo #1 11 R01-R09, R11, R17 4
Gregory, Les #22 3 R04-R06 0
Guy, Eric #19 17 R01-R11, R13-R18 0
Guyatt, Jim #27 13 R01-R04, R08-R12, R15-R18 0
Head, Rodger #6 1 R16 0
Howell, Verdun #16 17 R01-R11, R13-R18 0
Jeans, Allan #14 18 R01-R18 9
Kee, Ron #41 2 R15-R16 2
Kupsch, Ken #44 1 R12 0
McCarthy, Brian #21 13 R01-R03, R09-R18 1
McKay, Tom #48 1 R07 0
McMillan, John #2 16 R01-R03, R06-R18 9
Minihan, Graham #35 9 R01-R02, R05-R07, R10, R12-R14 2
Morrow, Alan #8 18 R01-R18 19
Muir, Brian #23 5 R04-R05, R16-R18 0
Nowlan, Max #38 2 R11-R12 0
O'Brien, Jim #28 17 R02-R18 28
Oswald, Lance #24 18 R01-R18 29
Roberts, Neil #10 17 R01-R17 1
Ross, Lester #5 10 R01-R10 0
Stephens, Phil #31 6 R03-R05, R08, R10-R11 2
Stephenson, Bill #11 18 R01-R18 26
Stephenson, Laurie #32 13 R01, R03-R14 20
Synman, Ian #39 3 R16-R18 0
Walsh, Brian #7 15 R01-R11, R13-R16 0
Walton, Ray #18 11 R01-R11 0
Young, Bill #15 16 R01-R14, R17-R18 45

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)
Francis, Jim 18 9 -0- 9 R01-R18

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
18/04/1959 Round 1 Footscray HOME WIN STK by 20 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
02/05/1959 Round 2 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 36 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
09/05/1959 Round 3 North Melbourne AWAY LOSS NOR by 5 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
16/05/1959 Round 4 Collingwood HOME WIN STK by 27 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
23/05/1959 Round 5 Hawthorn HOME WIN STK by 4 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
30/05/1959 Round 6 Richmond AWAY WIN STK by 23 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
06/06/1959 Round 7 Fitzroy HOME WIN STK by 7 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
15/06/1959 Round 8 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 56 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
27/06/1959 Round 9 Geelong HOME WIN STK by 37 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
04/07/1959 Round 10 Melbourne HOME LOSS MEL by 1 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
11/07/1959 Round 11 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 45 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
18/07/1959 Round 12 Footscray AWAY WIN STK by 11 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
25/07/1959 Round 13 Essendon HOME WIN STK by 14 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
01/08/1959 Round 14 North Melbourne HOME LOSS NOR by 10 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
08/08/1959 Round 15 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 25 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
15/08/1959 Round 16 Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 36 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
22/08/1959 Round 17 Richmond HOME WIN STK by 26 Jim Francis Neil Roberts
29/08/1959 Round 18 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FIT by 42 Jim Francis unknown