1970 VFL Season: Footscray

Season Team Details

Season: 1970 VFL Season
Team: Footscray
Home Ground: Western Oval (Whitten Oval)

Team Results

Ladder Position: 7th (W-D-L: 11-0-11, P%: 91.2%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 39
Brownlow Leader(s): Gary Dempsey (21)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): George Bisset (45)
Charles Sutton Medal Recipient(s): Gary Dempsey

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Stuart Magee, Ted Whitten

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Austin, Graeme #31 5 R09, R11-R12, R21-R22 1
Bartlett, Les #20 12 R02-R06, R09, R17-R22 7
Bisset, George #6 21 R01-R21 45
Casey, Gordon #10 21 R01-R08, R10-R22 0
Cook, Graeme #10 7 R06-R12 3
Darcy, David #15 13 R01-R12, R16 6
Delmenico, Kevin #18 7 R01-R06, R18 0
Dempsey, Gary #24 19 R01-R17, R21-R22 12
Fenton, Ron #5 9 R01-R04, R15-R19 13
Godridge, Bill #26 2 R01-R02 1
Greenwood, Ken #1 22 R01-R22 5
Haynes, Ray #17 10 R01-R05, R08-R10, R17-R18 0
Hines, Peter #9 1 R01 0
Jillard, John #25 1 R02 0
Joslin, Graeme #12 18 R01, R05-R15, R17-R22 0
Magee, Stuart #23 18 R01-R10, R13-R16, R19-R22 10
Mannix, Alan #8 18 R01-R17, R19 16
McGhie, Robert #40 16 R07-R22 0
McGowan, Ron #22 10 R06-R08, R13-R16, R20-R22 0
McHardy, Roger #42 1 R08 1
McKenzie, Don #30 17 R02-R08, R10-R16, R18, R21-R22 20
Merrington, Gary #19 22 R01-R22 2
Newman, Clive #39 1 R15 0
Pagnoccolo, Charles #36 17 R05-R07, R09-R22 22
Pokrovsky, Mike #46 2 R13-R14 0
Power, Stephen #21 21 R01, R03-R22 8
Quinlan, Bernie #2 21 R01-R19, R21-R22 12
Radziminski, Richard #32 5 R12-R14, R19-R20 0
Rippon, Laurie #11 5 R16-R20 0
Round, Barry #14 21 R01-R15, R17-R22 27
Salmon, Ian #9 5 R09-R13 5
Sandilands, Laurie #9 9 R14-R22 5
Simmons, Grant #45 3 R20-R22 0
Skreja, Harry #37 1 R20 1
Spargo, Ricky #7 9 R02-R03, R15-R20, R22 2
Thorpe, David #16 22 R01-R22 6
Welsh, Peter #4 17 R01-R04, R06-R08, R10-R11, R14, R16-R22 3
Whitten, Ted #3 4 R01, R03-R05 4
Zeltner, Trevor #29 7 R04-R05, R07, R09, R11-R13 3

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)
Whitten, Ted 22 11 -0- 11 R01-R22

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
04/04/1970 Round 1 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 64 Ted Whitten unknown
11/04/1970 Round 2 Essendon AWAY WIN FOO by 32 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
18/04/1970 Round 3 St Kilda HOME WIN FOO by 33 Ted Whitten unknown
25/04/1970 Round 4 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SOU by 17 Ted Whitten unknown
02/05/1970 Round 5 Hawthorn HOME WIN FOO by 3 Ted Whitten unknown
09/05/1970 Round 6 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 46 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
16/05/1970 Round 7 Melbourne HOME WIN FOO by 22 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
23/05/1970 Round 8 North Melbourne AWAY WIN FOO by 29 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
30/05/1970 Round 9 Fitzroy HOME LOSS FIT by 2 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
06/06/1970 Round 10 Carlton HOME WIN FOO by 10 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
15/06/1970 Round 11 Richmond AWAY LOSS RIC by 57 Ted Whitten unknown
20/06/1970 Round 12 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 13 Ted Whitten unknown
27/06/1970 Round 13 Essendon HOME WIN FOO by 16 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
04/07/1970 Round 14 St Kilda AWAY LOSS STK by 6 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
11/07/1970 Round 15 South Melbourne HOME LOSS SOU by 48 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
18/07/1970 Round 16 Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 99 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
25/07/1970 Round 17 Geelong HOME WIN FOO by 31 Ted Whitten unknown
01/08/1970 Round 18 Melbourne AWAY WIN FOO by 14 Ted Whitten unknown
08/08/1970 Round 19 North Melbourne HOME WIN FOO by 2 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
15/08/1970 Round 20 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FIT by 2 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
22/08/1970 Round 21 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 14 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee
29/08/1970 Round 22 Richmond HOME WIN FOO by 10 Ted Whitten Stuart Magee