1968 VFL Season: Footscray

Season Team Details

Season: 1968 VFL Season
Team: Footscray
Home Ground: Western Oval (Whitten Oval)

Team Results

Ladder Position: 10th (W-D-L: 5-0-15, P%: 82.6%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 38
Brownlow Leader(s): John Schultz (11)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Ted Whitten (36)
Charles Sutton Medal Recipient(s): David Thorpe

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Ted Whitten

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Bartlett, Les #20 10 R06-R10, R12, R17-R20 1
Bean, Graeme #34 7 R01-R02, R15-R17, R19-R20 1
Bisset, George #6 20 R01-R20 31
Bryant, Ian #5 16 R01-R04, R08-R14, R16-R20 8
Chalmers, Graeme #27 2 R03-R04 1
Cook, Fred #29 20 R01-R20 1
Cook, Graeme #10 7 R11-R12, R14-R17, R19 1
Cumming, Len #31 9 R01-R08, R15 5
Darcy, David #15 13 R01-R06, R08-R14 9
Delmenico, Kevin #18 17 R04-R20 0
Dempsey, Gary #24 13 R01-R04, R07, R12-R16, R18-R20 9
Fincher, Noel #28 2 R01, R09 0
Greenwood, Ken #1 14 R01-R07, R14-R20 0
Harvey, Brian #45 2 R03-R04 0
Hill, Tony #43 1 R18 0
Hines, Peter #2 8 R08-R11, R13-R15, R20 9
Jackman, Kevin #7 5 R01, R04-R05, R08, R16 1
Jillard, John #25 20 R01-R20 0
Magee, Stuart #6 14 R06-R11, R13-R20 11
Magor, Doug #38 2 R12-R13 1
Mannix, Alan #8 11 R03-R13 6
Marsh, Ivan #33 15 R01-R05, R10-R14, R16-R20 13
McGowan, Ron #22 19 R02-R20 0
McKenzie, Don #30 15 R01-R03, R05-R07, R09-R12, R16-R20 9
McLeod, Kevin #47 1 R15 1
Merrington, Gary #19 17 R01, R05-R20 5
Patterson, Dallas #26 1 R02 0
Percy, Robert #12 5 R05-R09 0
Pleitner, Bryan #32 4 R01-R03, R05 0
Reilly, John #32 17 R01-R15, R17-R18 0
Sandilands, Laurie #9 7 R01-R02, R04, R06, R18-R20 7
Schultz, John #14 16 R01-R11, R13-R17 2
Spargo, Ricky #36 16 R01-R03, R07, R09-R20 19
Stevens, Kevin #4 4 R05-R08 2
Thorpe, David #16 19 R02-R20 4
Wallace, Ian #50 2 R14-R15 0
Welsh, Peter #37 9 R10-R13, R16-R20 5
Whitten, Ted #3 20 R01-R20 36

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 5 -0- 15 R01-R20

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
15/04/1968 Round 1 North Melbourne HOME LOSS NOR by 16 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
20/04/1968 Round 2 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 24 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
27/04/1968 Round 3 Hawthorn HOME LOSS HAW by 11 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
04/05/1968 Round 4 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FIT by 12 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
11/05/1968 Round 5 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 72 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
18/05/1968 Round 6 Melbourne HOME WIN FOO by 37 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
25/05/1968 Round 7 St Kilda AWAY LOSS STK by 44 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
08/06/1968 Round 8 South Melbourne HOME LOSS SOU by 13 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
15/06/1968 Round 9 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESS by 42 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
22/06/1968 Round 10 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 28 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
29/06/1968 Round 11 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 18 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
06/07/1968 Round 12 North Melbourne AWAY WIN FOO by 15 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
13/07/1968 Round 13 Geelong HOME WIN FOO by 83 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
20/07/1968 Round 14 Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 82 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
27/07/1968 Round 15 Fitzroy HOME LOSS FIT by 5 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
03/08/1968 Round 16 Carlton HOME WIN FOO by 32 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
10/08/1968 Round 17 Melbourne AWAY LOSS MEL by 9 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
17/08/1968 Round 18 St Kilda HOME LOSS STK by 65 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
24/08/1968 Round 19 South Melbourne AWAY WIN FOO by 4 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten
31/08/1968 Round 20 Essendon HOME LOSS ESS by 27 Charlie Sutton Ted Whitten