Match Recap
Round 8·Mon, 4-Jun-1956 2:15 PM·Windy Hill·31,500 att.
Essendon
12.11 (83)
vs
Footscray
14.23 (107)
Footscray won by 24

Quarter scores

TeamQ1Q2Q3Q4Final
Essendon4.2 (26)6.6 (42)8.6 (54)12.11 (83)12.11 (83)
Footscray4.5 (29)6.11 (47)12.19 (91)14.23 (107)14.23 (107)

Essendon — full stats

PlayerKHBDMTGBHOI50CLCPCGBRTOG%KICK
#19 Doug Bigelow
#18 Reg Burgess
#1 Jack Clarke1
#6 Doug Dench
#12 Morton Diston
#24 Robert Fox
#13 Fred Gallagher
#3 John Gill
#23 Jack Harrington
#14 Jim Heenan
#7 Bill Hutchison
#21 Jack Knowles
#30 Geoff Leek
#4 Fred Lynch
#25 Roy McConnell
#31 Hugh Mitchell2
#17 Max Nixon1
#34 Mal Pascoe4
#9 Greg Sewell
#16 Graham Willey4

Footscray — full stats

PlayerKHBDMTGBHOI50CLCPCGBRTOG%KICK
#5 Peter Box
#2 Jack Collins2
#8 Max Cross4
#18 Noel Dickson1
#22 Wally Donald
#7 Roger Duffy
#11 Arthur Edwards
#34 Brian Gilmore
#36 Byron Guthrie
#25 Herb Henderson
#1 John Kerr2
#21 Ron Porta
#33 Don Rawson
#28 Doug Reynolds
#9 Don Ross1
#31 Lionel Ryan1
#17 Ron Stockman
#10 John Westacott
#38 Kevin White
#3 Ted Whitten3