Round 2, 1951

Carlton 1.3 9 1.10 16 4.15 39 4.16 40 Footscray 1.2 8 2.7 19 3.7 25 5.11 41	Venue: Western Oval	Date: Saturday April 28, 1951
Result: Loss by 1 point	Umpire: Jamieson	Crowd: 26,000
Goalkickers: K.Warbuton 3, J.Mills 1.
Reports: Nil	Injuries: Nil

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Game Review

The previous Saturday, Footscray had gotten off to an encouraging start by knocking over Richmond by a solitary point at Punt Road. This week, against Carlton at the Western Oval, they did it again – charging home from 14 points behind at three-quarter time to beat the Blues by the smallest possible margin. Celebrating champion Bert Deacon’s 100th match, the Blues seemed in control at the last change, but the Bulldogs packed their defence and used the advantage of a freshening breeze to hit the front a minute from full-time, then hung on grimly to win.

This loss dropped the Blues to seventh on the ladder. The top four (all undefeated) were Collingwood, Fitzroy, Essendon and Footscray. Another three goals to Keith Warburton took his total to 10, just one behind Jack O’Rourke of Richmond.


Trove; Age April 30 p14

Team

B:	33 Ritchie Green	27 Ollie Grieve	19 Don Calder
HB:	16 John Brown	23 Bert Deacon	26 Jim Clark
C:	8 Arthur Hodgson	6 Ern Henfry (c)	11 Laurie Kerr
HF:	17 Doug Beasy	14 Vin English	25 Jim Baird
F:	28 Fred Davies	7 Keith Warburton	15 Bruce Comben
Ruck:	1 Ken Hands (vc)	24 Harry Caspar	9 Jack Mills
Res:	32 Harry Dern	10 Fred Stafford
Coach:	Percy Bentley

Changes

IN: H.Dern
OUT: B.Baxter

Milestones

100 Games: Bert Deacon

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