1934 VFL Season Round 1: Essendon v Footscray

This is the match report for the match played on 5 May 1934 between Essendon and Footscray during round one of the 1934 season of the Victorian Football League. Essendon hosted Footscray at Windy Hill. Keith Forbes captained the hosts with Bruce Anderson as vice-captain. In the absence of Bill Cubbins, vice-captain Stan Penberthy captained the visitors with Allan Hopkins as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Charlie May and the visitors were coached by Bill Cubbins.

Essendon (19.11.125) defeated Footscray (16.18.114).

Match Details

Season: 1934 VFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Essendon v Footscray
Date: Saturday 5 May 1934
Time: 2:45 PM
Venue: Windy Hill
Attendance: 21,000

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Footscray
Score: 19.11.125 - 16.18.114

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 8 . 2 12 . 5 15 . 9 19 . 11 19 . 11 (125)
Footscray 8 . 7 10 . 13 13 . 15 16 . 18 16 . 18 (114)
Margin FOOT by 5 ESSE by 4 ESSE by 6 ESSE by 11 ESSE by 11
Duration

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: Keith Forbes
Vice-Captain: Bruce Anderson
Coach: Charlie May

Footscray

Captain: Stan Penberthy (acting)
Vice-Captain: Allan Hopkins (acting)
Coach: Bill Cubbins

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

B. Blackburn

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Dick Reynolds ESSE 3 3
Norm Ware FOOT 4 2
Bruce Anderson ESSE 16 1

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH
16 Anderson, Bruce (vc) FB ? 0 ?
23 Clarke, Tom SUB ? 0 ?
11 Crawford, Col WR ? 0 ?
31 Fay, Ted HBFR ? 0 ?
1 Forbes, Keith (c) RO ? 5 ?
26 Freyer, Ted FPR ? 3 ?
19 Griggs, Les C ? 0 ?
4 Hearn, Clarrie CHF ? 0 ?
5 Hiskins, Jack CHB ? 0 ?
7 Lowenthal, Bill HBFL ? 0 ?
10 Luff, Bill FF ? 4 ?
14 Milne, Wally BPL ? 0 ?
6 O'Brien, Jock WL ? 0 ?
2 Okey, Howard HFFL ? 4 ?
3 Reynolds, Dick HFFR ? 3 ?
21 Rippon, Ted BPR ? 0 ?
20 Torney, Hugh FPL ? 0 ?
28 Walsh, Paddy RU ? 0 ?
32 Webster, Len RU ? 0 ?
Rushed ?
Total (19 players) 19 11

Footscray

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH
9 Baker, Harry ? ? 0 ?
9 Baker, Ted ? ? 4 ?
16 Dayman, Les ? ? 1 ?
3 Grundy, Bill ? ? 0 ?
8 Hopkins, Allan (avc) ? ? 2 ?
15 McKay, Roy ? ? 0 ?
7 Morrison, Alby ? ? 3 ?
19 Muir, Bob ? ? 0 ?
13 O'Brien, Bernie ? ? 0 ?
17 Penberthy, Stan (ac) ? ? 1 ?
18 Pollard, Dick ? ? 0 ?
6 Somerville, Jack ? ? 0 ?
11 Spilling, Frank ? ? 0 ?
14 Spurling, Bill ? ? 4 ?
22 Thomas, Reg ? ? 1 ?
25 Trim, Ted ? ? 0 ?
23 Vosti, Jack ? ? 0 ?
4 Ware, Norm ? ? 0 ?
10 Waye, Tom ? ? 0 ?
Rushed ?
Total (19 players) 16 18

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s

Player Line-Up

Essendon Coach: Charlie May
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE






28 P. Walsh 23 T. Clarke
26 T. Freyer 10 B. Luff 20 H. Torney 32 L. Webster

FORWARD 1 K. Forbes (c)

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3 D. Reynolds 4 C. Hearn 2 H. Okey



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE













11 C. Crawford 19 L. Griggs 6 J. O'Brien FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE



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31 T. Fay 5 J. Hiskins 7 B. Lowenthal



HALF-BACK



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21 T. Rippon 16 B. Anderson (vc) 14 W. Milne



BACK



Footscray Coach: Bill Cubbins