| Venue: Princes Park | Date: Saturday August 12, 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Result: Win by 2 points | Umpire: | Crowd: 15,439 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Goalkickers: T.Carroll 3, B.Bryant 1, G.Collis 1, M.Cross 1, W.Lofts 1, J.Nicholls 1, M.Sankey 1. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reports: | Injuries: | |||||||||||||||||||
Game Review
This match at Princes Park between eighth-placed Carlton and wooden spoon favourites North Melbourne featured the two leading VFL goal-kickers; Tom Carroll of Carlton (42 goals) and the Shinboners' John Dugdale (36). Those fans who went along to see a shoot-out were disappointed - but at least they saw an exciting finish, as the Blues recovered from eleven points down at the last change to edge out the Northerners by a bare 2 points.Dugdale kicked 4 majors, and Carroll got three; however, both were overshadowed by Geelong's Doug Wade, who returned from injury to notch seven as the Cats went down by two points to Melbourne at the MCG.
Team
| B: | 10 John James (acting vc) | 25 George Ferry | 4 Brian Buckley |
| HB: | 14 Bob Crowe | 20 Wes Lofts | 32 Vasil Varlamos |
| C: | 11 Barry Bryant | 9 Berkley Cox | 30 Murray Kick |
| HF: | 18 Peter Barry | 17 Gordon Collis | 8 John Benetti |
| F: | 16 Maurie Sankey | 22 Tom Carroll | 23 Martin Cross |
| Ruck: | 2 John Nicholls (acting capt.) | 1 Serge Silvagni | 37 John Heathcote |
| Res: | 19 Ian Collins | 28 Graham Gilchrist | |
| Coach: | Ken Hands | ||
In: G. Gilchrist, M. Sankey
Out: B. Williams, J. Williams
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