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Venue: Western Oval | Date: Saturday 3 August 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Result: Lost by 32 points | Umpire: TBD | Crowd: 15,184 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Goalkickers: Nicholls, Bennett, Lofts, Jesaulenko 2, Gallagher, Jones | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reports: TBD | Injuries: Nil | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ladder: 4th with 11 wins, 5 losses (12 teams) and a percentage of 125.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Game Review
Carlton received a real hiding and a football lesson in their worst defeat for the season at the hands of lowly Footscray, the team they beat by 12 goals earlier in the season.They had only 3 good players in a team which failed to make use of a strong wind and played negative football against it. Barassi was the main culprit – his handball is getting out of hand!
Carlton’s good players were Jesaulenko, Collins and Silvagni, whilst Footscray’s best were Bisset, Thorpe, Whitten, Merrington and Bryant.
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Team
| B: | 19 Ian Collins | 20 Wes Lofts | 42 Robert Walls |
| HB: | 3 Kevin Hall | 11 John Goold | 26 Graeme Anderson |
| C: | 32 Bryan Quirk | 17 Brent Crosswell | 6 Garry Crane |
| HF: | 31 Ron Barassi (cc) | 34 Ian Robertson | 25 Alex Jesaulenko |
| F: | 28 Peter Jones | 12 Bill Bennett | 8 Dennis Munari |
| Ruck: | 2 John Nicholls (vc) | 1 Serge Silvagni | 10 Adrian Gallagher |
| Res: | 30 Vin Waite | 47 Neil Chandler | |
| Coach: | Ron Barassi | ||
Milestones
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