South Melbourne vs Footscray 19-May-1945 Lineups

Saturday 19-May-1945

Final Round 5

South Melbourne Coach: Bill Adams

99 15.9

83 12.11

Footscray Coach: Arthur Olliver

The team sheet

Who takes the field

Attacking this way

Home team

South Melbourne

Recorded positions

Positions recorded for this match.

Exact positions unavailableAvailable players are listed below.

Position unavailable 19

31 Alan Linden — 12 Billy King — 7 Bob Matlock — 5 Brian Kelly — 17 Don Grossman — 1 Herbie Matthews — 30 Jack Dempsey — 27 Jack Graham — 32 Jack Williams — 20 Jim Cleary — 9 Keith Smith — 25 Laurie Nash — 6 Reg Coyle — 14 Reg Richards — 23 Ron Clegg — 16 Ron Hartridge — 22 Ted Whitfield — 8 Vic Castles — 4 William Williams —

Away team

Footscray

Recorded positions

Positions recorded for this match.

Exact positions unavailableAvailable players are listed below.

Position unavailable 19

28 Allan Broadway — 11 Allan Jacobsen — 29 Allan Moncrieff — 3 Arthur Olliver — 31 Bill McTaggart — 30 George Tribe — 26 Harry Chalmers — 18 Harry Gingell — 7 Harry Hickey — 20 Jim Greenham — 1 Jim Thoms — 10 Joe Ryan — 27 Len McCankie — 4 Mal McBean — 9 Pat Hand — 19 Reg Evenden — 5 Ron Grove — 32 Ted Ryan — 25 Tom Tribe —

Quarter Scores

Team	1Q	2Q	3Q	4Q	Total
SMO	3.0	5.2	4.4	3.3	99
FTS	3.2	2.3	2.4	5.2	83

Match Leaders

Goals

3 tied leaders

Laurie NashSMO

Behinds

Not available yet

SuperCoach

Not available yet

Tackles

Not available yet

Team Stats

SMOFTS

Scoring / Attack

15Goals12

0Behinds0

0Behinds Rushed0

How the match finished

South Melbourne beat Footscray by 16 points, 99–83.

South Melbourne took a 27-point lead into the last quarter. Footscray cut that back to 16 by the final siren, scoring 32 points to 21 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