1970 VFL Season Round 13: Footscray v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 27 June 1970 between Footscray and Essendon during round thirteen of the 1970 season of the Victorian Football League. Footscray hosted Essendon at Western Oval. Stuart Magee captained the hosts. In the absence of Barry Davis, vice-captain Don McKenzie captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Ted Whitten and the visitors were coached by Jack Clarke.

Footscray (11.12.78) defeated Essendon (9.8.62).

Match Details

Season: 1970 VFL Season
Round: Round 13
Teams: Footscray v Essendon
Date: Saturday 27 June 1970
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Western Oval
Attendance: 18,817

Match Results

Outcome: Footscray def. Essendon
Score: 11.12.78 - 9.8.62

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Footscray	2	.	0	5	.	3	10	.	10	11	.	12	11	.	12	(78)
Essendon	3	.	0	6	.	4	7	.	5	9	.	8	9	.	8	(62)
Margin	ESSE by 6			ESSE by 7			FOOT by 23			FOOT by 16			FOOT by 16
Duration

Honour Roll

Footscray

Captain: Stuart Magee
Coach: Ted Whitten

Essendon

Captain: Don McKenzie (acting)
Coach: Jack Clarke

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

A. Thomson

Player Statistics

Footscray

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	FF	FA
6	Bisset, George	?	?	1	2	30	27	3	11	0	1	3
10	Casey, Gordon	?	?	0	0	14	12	2	3	0	3	1
24	Dempsey, Gary	?	?	0	0	21	18	3	9	11	4	2
1	Greenwood, Ken	?	?	0	0	15	14	1	8	2	2	3
12	Joslin, Graeme	?	?	0	0	15	13	2	4	0	2	5
23	Magee, Stuart (c)	?	?	1	0	22	21	1	4	0	1	5
8	Mannix, Alan	?	?	1	0	29	25	4	12	0	1	2
40	McGhie, Robbie	?	?	0	0	9	9	0	3	1	1	3
22	McGowan, Ron	?	?	0	0	21	18	3	2	0	5	5
30	McKenzie, Don	?	?	2	1	17	14	3	5	0	2	1
19	Merrington, Gary	?	?	0	0	13	11	2	4	0	1	0
36	Pagnoccolo, Charles	?	?	0	1	17	16	1	0	0	3	2
46	Pokrovsky, Mike	?	?	0	0	3	3	0	1	0	1	0
21	Power, Stephen	?	?	0	0	18	15	3	4	0	5	2
2	Quinlan, Bernie	?	?	3	3	13	13	0	5	0	3	0
32	Radziminski, Richard	?	?	0	0	13	10	3	2	0	1	2
14	Round, Barry	?	?	1	2	9	8	1	6	1	1	3
9	Salmon, Ian	?	?	2	1	12	8	4	2	4	4	5
16	Thorpe, David	?	?	0	0	22	20	2	6	0	2	3
29	Zeltner, Trevor	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Rushed					2
Total (20 players)				11	12	313	275	38	91	19	44	48

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	FF	FA
11	Blethyn, Geoff	?	?	1	2	7	7	0	4	0	2	1
19	Close, Robin	?	?	0	0	10	7	3	3	0	2	2
28	Daniel, Peter	?	?	1	0	12	10	2	4	2	1	2
41	Fields, Neville	?	?	1	0	15	12	3	3	0	3	4
21	Fletcher, Ken	?	?	0	0	27	26	1	5	0	7	3
17	Gerlach, Darryl	?	?	0	0	12	10	2	4	0	0	2
6	Gosper, Geoff	?	?	0	0	21	16	5	3	0	1	2
4	Grainger, Gary	?	?	1	2	15	9	6	3	1	3	2
2	Greenwood, Bob	?	?	0	1	20	19	1	6	0	2	1
15	Gross, Don	?	?	2	1	12	8	4	3	0	0	0
40	Headlam, Wayne	?	?	0	0	13	10	3	5	12	1	5
38	Lake, Eddie	?	?	2	1	22	19	3	6	0	5	1
24	McKenzie, Don (ac)	?	?	0	0	17	17	0	4	4	6	4
8	Neish, Bruce	?	?	0	0	22	20	2	9	0	3	3
7	Payne, Charlie	?	?	0	0	18	15	3	3	0	5	3
3	Payne, Ian	?	?	1	0	22	20	2	5	0	2	3
9	Pirouet, Bryan	?	?	0	0	8	6	2	3	0	1	2
35	Pryor, Geoff	?	?	0	0	16	10	6	5	0	0	2
26	Sproule, Paul	?	?	0	0	18	16	2	3	0	4	2
22	Williams, John	?	?	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	0
Rushed					1
Total (20 players)				9	8	309	259	50	82	19	48	44

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

Score Timeline

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Links

1970 VFL Season

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