1973 VFL Season Round 13: Essendon v South Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 30 June 1973 between Essendon and South Melbourne during round thirteen of the 1973 season of the Victorian Football League. Essendon hosted South Melbourne at Windy Hill. In the absence of Des Tuddenham, vice-captain John Williams captained the hosts with Alan Noonan as vice-captain. Peter Bedford captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Des Tuddenham and the visitors were coached by Graeme John.

Essendon (20.19.139) defeated South Melbourne (16.14.110).

Match Details

Season: 1973 VFL Season
Round: Round 13
Teams: Essendon v South Melbourne
Date: Saturday 30 June 1973
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Windy Hill
Attendance: 13,042

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. South Melbourne
Score: 20.19.139 - 16.14.110

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	6	.	2	7	.	7	15	.	12	20	.	19	20	.	19	(139)
South Melbourne	4	.	4	8	.	10	10	.	11	16	.	14	16	.	14	(110)
Margin	ESSE by 10			SMLB by 9			ESSE by 31			ESSE by 29			ESSE by 29
Duration

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: John Williams (acting)
Vice-Captain: Alan Noonan (acting)
Coach: Des Tuddenham

South Melbourne

Captain: Peter Bedford
Coach: Graeme John

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

J. Sutcliffe

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	FF	FA
11	Amos, Robert	?	?	1	0	10	9	1	3	0	1	2
9	Cassin, John	?	?	0	4	16	14	2	2	0	3	4
19	Close, Robin	?	?	3	2	15	11	4	6	0	2	4
28	Daniel, Peter	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	Delahunty, Hugh	?	?	0	0	11	10	1	1	0	1	0
1	Fields, Neville	?	?	2	1	16	10	6	2	6	3	5
21	Fletcher, Ken	?	?	0	0	13	9	4	2	0	1	2
15	Gross, Don	?	?	1	0	6	6	0	1	0	1	0
14	Headlam, Wayne	?	?	0	1	22	15	7	8	11	4	1
34	Moloney, Laurie	?	?	0	0	10	9	1	2	0	1	1
25	Moss, Graham	?	?	1	0	25	15	10	13	10	2	5
10	Noonan, Alan (avc)	?	?	7	2	14	14	0	10	0	2	3
5	Parkes, Gary	?	?	0	0	14	12	2	1	0	2	2
16	Perry, Greg	?	?	0	0	20	15	5	9	12	3	3
31	Pryor, Geoff	?	?	0	0	5	5	0	4	0	1	2
6	Roberts, Ken	?	?	5	3	13	10	3	5	0	4	2
35	Smith, Ray	?	?	0	0	12	12	0	0	0	6	2
22	Williams, John (ac)	?	?	0	0	19	14	5	5	0	3	0
33	Wilson, Andy	?	?	0	3	24	24	0	0	0	7	8
55	Wright, Ross	?	?	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2
Rushed					3
Total (20 players)				20	19	267	216	51	74	39	47	48

South Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	FF	FA
2	Aanensen, Vic	?	?	0	0	15	9	6	5	7	5	1
31	Ball, Ray	?	?	0	0	7	6	1	1	0	2	5
11	Bedford, Peter (c)	?	?	1	1	13	10	3	6	0	1	1
8	Beecroft, Barry	?	?	0	1	5	5	0	4	1	1	2
7	Brice, Gary	?	?	1	0	17	14	3	4	0	2	3
18	Davis, Bruce	?	?	0	1	16	11	5	4	0	2	8
45	Dempster, Graham	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	Doyle, Robert	?	?	0	0	9	5	4	2	7	1	5
27	Gleeson, Reg	?	?	0	0	11	10	1	3	0	4	1
12	Goss, Norm	?	?	3	2	31	29	2	10	0	6	1
34	Gull, Stewart	?	?	2	1	7	7	0	5	0	2	2
44	Harley, Gary	?	?	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	Hoffman, Steve	?	?	2	0	24	18	6	1	0	3	1
33	Lambert, Greg	?	?	0	0	16	15	1	3	0	4	1
29	McLeish, David	?	?	0	0	19	15	4	3	0	2	2
21	Pitura, John	?	?	3	3	20	13	7	4	0	2	3
19	Prentice, Jim	?	?	1	3	14	11	3	8	0	1	0
16	Quade, Ricky	?	?	3	0	21	15	6	7	0	1	2
20	Thomson, Ian	?	?	0	0	17	13	4	6	0	1	5
10	Woodman, Brian	?	?	0	0	17	12	5	2	0	1	4
Rushed					2
Total (20 players)				16	14	279	218	61	78	15	41	47

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

Links

1973 VFL Season

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