North Melbourne vs Footscray 25-May-1940 Lineups

Saturday 25-May-1940

Final Round 5

North Melbourne Coach: Len Thomas

53 7.11

66 9.12

Footscray Coach: Joe Kelly

The team sheet

Who takes the field

Attacking this way

Home team

North Melbourne

Recorded positions

Positions recorded for this match.

Exact positions unavailableAvailable players are listed below.

Position unavailable 19

9 Bill Findlay — 24 Billy Wells — 7 Charles Skinner — 28 Dally OBrien — 22 Don Kemp — 21 Frank Stubbs — 18 George Kennedy — 10 Jack Harrison — 15 Jack Ryan — 8 Jim Adamson — 6 Jock Cordner — 14 Jock McCorkell — 13 Laurie Davies — 29 Ossy Parks — 12 Roy Sitch — 26 Sel Murray — 5 Syd Dyer — 3 Tom Roulent — 17 Wally Carter —

Away team

Footscray

Recorded positions

Positions recorded for this match.

Exact positions unavailableAvailable players are listed below.

Position unavailable 19

28 Alf Sampson — 24 Ambrose Palmer — 3 Arthur Olliver — 16 Bob Spargo — 26 Charlie Page — 5 George Bennett — 32 Harry Dolphin — 7 Harry Hickey — 27 Jim May — 14 Jim Miller — 10 Joe Ryan — 21 Len Murphy — 17 Leo Ryan — 4 Norm Ware — 8 Pat Cahill — 19 Reg Evenden — 18 Rob Sainsbury — 15 Ted Ellis — 25 Tom Tribe —

Quarter Scores

Team	1Q	2Q	3Q	4Q	Total
NTH	0.2	2.3	1.2	4.4	53
FTS	3.2	3.3	3.2	0.5	66

Match Leaders

Goals

Sel MurrayNTH

Behinds

Not available yet

SuperCoach

Not available yet

Tackles

Not available yet

Team Stats

NTHFTS

Scoring / Attack

7Goals9

0Behinds0

0Behinds Rushed0

How the match finished

Footscray beat North Melbourne by 13 points, 66–53.

Footscray took a 36-point lead into the last quarter. North Melbourne cut that back to 13 by the final siren, scoring 28 points to 5 in the final term.

This match record does not include scoring sequence.

Match records and coverage

This summary uses the recorded scores; it cannot explain tactics or individual moments. Period comparisons are included only when all recorded periods add up to the final score. Missing records are not counted as zero.

Understanding historical coverage