1976 VFL Season Round 12: Essendon v Footscray

This is the match report for the match played on 19 June 1976 between Essendon and Footscray during round twelve of the 1976 season of the Victorian Football League. Essendon hosted Footscray at Windy Hill. Graham Moss captained the hosts with Ken Fletcher as vice-captain. Laurie Sandilands captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Bill Stephen and the visitors were coached by Bill Goggin.

Essendon (12.17.89) defeated Footscray (12.7.79).

Match Details

Season: 1976 VFL Season
Round: Round 12
Teams: Essendon v Footscray
Date: Saturday 19 June 1976
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Windy Hill
Attendance: 18,863

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Footscray
Score: 12.17.89 - 12.7.79

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 2 . 3 7 . 6 9 . 14 12 . 17 12 . 17 (89)
Footscray 2 . 2 4 . 4 9 . 6 12 . 7 12 . 7 (79)
Margin ESSE by 1 ESSE by 20 ESSE by 8 ESSE by 10 ESSE by 10
Duration

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: Graham Moss
Vice-Captain: Ken Fletcher
Coach: Bill Stephen

Footscray

Captain: Laurie Sandilands
Coach: Bill Goggin

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

T. Bryant
B. Deller

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
4 Andrews, Ron ? ? 0 0 12 10 2 3 0 5 3
3 Beaumont, Steve ? ? 1 0 6 6 0 1 0 2 4
45 Burdett, Geoff ? ? 0 1 11 8 3 1 0 2 1
42 Cahill, Terry ? ? 1 0 5 4 1 0 0 2 1
19 Close, Robin ? ? 6 4 16 14 2 9 0 1 4
31 Crow, Max ? ? 0 2 12 8 4 6 0 0 3
30 Ellen, Russell ? ? 0 0 13 9 4 4 0 1 3
1 Fields, Neville ? ? 2 3 22 17 5 4 0 5 4
21 Fletcher, Ken (vc) ? ? 0 1 14 12 2 1 0 2 5
18 Grinter, Barry ? ? 0 0 5 5 0 2 0 2 2
41 Hartigan, Dean ? ? 0 0 15 9 6 3 0 2 1
16 Hatcher, Graeme ? ? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 Hickmott, Peter ? ? 0 0 8 5 3 2 0 1 2
27 Madden, Simon ? ? 1 1 5 4 1 2 5 0 1
13 Mansfield, Ken ? ? 1 0 14 9 5 0 0 5 1
25 Moss, Graham (c) ? ? 0 0 25 15 10 11 3 2 2
2 Newton, Rob ? ? 0 0 20 18 2 5 0 0 2
5 Parkes, Gary ? ? 0 0 22 15 7 3 0 3 4
6 Roberts, Ken ? ? 0 0 25 22 3 5 0 4 2
39 Wellington, Pat ? ? 0 1 20 14 6 5 0 5 6
Rushed 4
Total (20 players) 12 17 270 204 66 67 8 44 51

Footscray

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
30 Abbey, Ross ? ? 1 0 19 18 1 5 0 0 2
16 Blair, Dennis ? ? 0 0 20 14 6 3 0 4 1
24 Dempsey, Gary ? ? 2 0 16 16 0 10 10 3 3
32 Dunstan, Ian ? ? 0 0 22 18 4 5 0 3 2
5 Featherby, Peter ? ? 0 1 27 24 3 1 0 6 6
1 Hampshire, Ian ? ? 0 0 6 3 3 1 8 1 0
7 Huppatz, Ray ? ? 1 2 25 18 7 4 0 7 3
25 Jennings, Geoff ? ? 0 1 21 15 6 4 0 2 2
6 Newland, Ken ? ? 0 0 7 4 3 3 0 2 8
23 Perussich, Lee ? ? 1 0 9 7 2 2 0 1 0
21 Power, Stephen ? ? 0 0 6 5 1 1 0 0 2
2 Quinlan, Bernie ? ? 1 2 13 7 6 3 1 3 4
33 Reid, John ? ? 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
18 Salmon, Ian ? ? 0 0 15 9 6 2 1 3 3
9 Sandilands, Laurie (c) ? ? 0 0 8 8 0 3 0 4 0
3 Stoneham, Alan ? ? 0 0 12 7 5 2 0 1 2
31 Templeton, Kelvin ? ? 4 0 5 5 0 4 0 2 1
4 Welsh, Peter ? ? 0 1 9 8 1 4 0 0 2
35 Wheeler, Terry ? ? 0 0 15 11 4 0 0 5 0
22 Whitten, Ted ? ? 2 0 17 13 4 2 0 4 3
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 12 7 274 212 62 59 20 51 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