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Melbourne vs Footscray Match Centre

Saturday 16-May-1953
Final Round 4
Melbourne logo
Melbourne Coach: Norm Smith
30 4.6
75 9.21
Footscray Coach: Charlie Sutton
Footscray logo
M.C.G. Footscray by 45 FTS by 45
Summary Lineups Player Statistics Event by event Maps
The team sheet

Who takes the field

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Home team

Melbourne

Recorded positions

Positions recorded for this match.

↑Exact positions unavailableAvailable players are listed below.

Position unavailable 20

24 Bill Morrow — · Position unavailable 32 Dale Anderson — · Position unavailable 1 Denis Cordner — · Position unavailable 25 Don Williams — · Position unavailable 17 Geoff McGivern — · Position unavailable 33 Jack Thomson — · Position unavailable 30 John Beckwith — · Position unavailable 6 Ken Albiston — · Position unavailable 4 Ken Christie — · Position unavailable 38 Ken Melville — · Position unavailable 29 Lance Arnold — · Position unavailable 39 Maurie Reeves — · Position unavailable 37 Mike Woods — · Position unavailable 18 Nevin Paynter — · Position unavailable 26 Noel Clarke — · Position unavailable 35 Noel McMahen — · Position unavailable 3 Peter Marquis — · Position unavailable 2 Robert McKenzie — · Position unavailable 31 Ron Barassi — · Position unavailable 12 Stuart Spencer — · Position unavailable
Away team

Footscray

Recorded positions

Positions recorded for this match.

↑Exact positions unavailableAvailable players are listed below.

Position unavailable 20

19 Alan Martin — · Position unavailable 35 Allen Rogers — · Position unavailable 20 Allen Warren — · Position unavailable 26 Bill Scanlan — · Position unavailable 34 Brian Gilmore — · Position unavailable 6 Charlie Sutton — · Position unavailable 18 Dave Bryden — · Position unavailable 9 Don Ross — · Position unavailable 32 Harvey Stevens — · Position unavailable 25 Herb Henderson — · Position unavailable 2 Jack Collins — · Position unavailable 31 Jack King — · Position unavailable 24 Jim Gallagher — · Position unavailable 14 John Barrett — · Position unavailable 5 Peter Box — · Position unavailable 7 Roger Duffy — · Position unavailable 33 Ron McCarthy — · Position unavailable 10 Roy Harper — · Position unavailable 3 Ted Whitten — · Position unavailable 22 Wally Donald — · Position unavailable

Scoring timeline

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Scoring Events

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Quarter Scores

Team1Q2Q3Q4QTotal
MEL0.10.21.13.230
FTS2.54.102.21.475

Match Leaders

Goals
4
Roger DuffyFTS
Behinds
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SuperCoach
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Tackles
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Team Stats

MELFTS

Scoring / Attack

4Goals9
0Behinds0
0Behinds Rushed0

Match Summary

Scoring events are unavailable for this match.

How the match finished

Footscray beat Melbourne by 45 points, 75–30.

Footscray took a 55-point lead into the last quarter. Melbourne cut that back to 45 by the final siren, scoring 20 points to 10 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. Quarter comparisons are included only when all four quarters add up to the final score. Missing records are not counted as zero.

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