Round 17, 1931

Carlton 1.0 6 3.5 23 3.10 28 6.14 50 Footscray 1.3 9 4.7 31 6.12 48 7.12 54	Venue: Princes Park	Date: Saturday September 5, 1931
Result: Lost by 4 points	Umpire: Batt	Crowd: 39,000 (approx.)
Goalkickers: H.Vallence 3, M.Crisp 2, A.Egan 1.
Reports: Nil	Injuries: F.O'Rourke replaced B.O'Brien (broken rib) during the third quarter.

Game Review

Despite a dominant last quarter by the Blues, fifth-placed Footscray held on to win this match by four points. Boom forward Les Allen (who had kicked 87 goals in only 29 games) was held goalless by the Bulldogs, and released to play for North Melbourne a few days later.
Soapy Vallence missed a shot on goal to win the game after the final bell.
At the end of this round Carlton were in 3rd spot on the ladder with a percentage of 124.7.

White Laces

"White bootlaces are becoming the vogue among footballers.
At Essendon on Saturday almost half the players in each team wore them." (Sun-News Pic.Sept 07 p12)

Team

B:	23 Jim Crowe	21 Frank Gill (vc)	8 George Morrissey
HB:	9 Eric Huxtable	14 Jack Green	6 Fred Gilby
C:	25 Bernie O'Brien	2 Colin Martyn (c)	30 Vin Arthur
HF:	12 Creswell 'Mickey' Crisp	27 Alf Egan	15 Maurie Johnson
F:	20 Les Allen	22 Harry Vallence	29 Fred Williams
Ruck:	17 Charlie Davey	10 Denis Kelleher	31 Ansell Clarke
19th Man:	32 Frank O'Rourke
Coach:	Dan Minogue

Sporting Globe September 05

Milestones

Last Game: Les Allen
Last Game (Carlton): Bernie O'Brien

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