Round 2, 1961

Carlton 1.2 8 4.4 28 8.4 52 9.5 59 Fitzroy 0.6 6 2.9 21 5.11 41 6.18 54	Venue: Princes Park	Date: Saturday April 22, 1961
Result: Win by 5 points	Umpire: Hodgson	Crowd: 29,384
Goalkickers: J.Heathcote 3, T.Carroll 2, G.Collis 1, M.Cross 1, G.Donaldson 1, C.Pavlou 1.
Reports: G.Donaldson reported by umpire Hodgson for striking K.Wright - accquited	Injuries: L.Bereton (shoulder) early first quarter.

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Game Review

The overconfident Blues were lucky to escape with this narrow victory, after easing up in the last term and allowing Fitzroy to rattle home. In fact, the Maroons should have won, but their shakiness in front of goal brought them undone - they booted 1.7 to Carlton's 1.1 and lost by 5 points.

After the first two rounds of 1961, the top four teams were Footscray, Geelong, Carlton and South Melbourne, with the first three all undefeated.

Team

B:	15 Bruce Comben	25 George Ferry	2 John Nicholls (vc)
HB:	32 Vasil Varlamos	14 Bob Crowe	10 John James (dvc)
C:	21 Bill Arch	9 Berkley Cox	35 Chris Pavlou
HF:	19 Ian Collins	18 Peter Barry	17 Gordon Collis
F:	16 Maurie Sankey	22 Tom Carroll	23 Martin Cross
Ruck:	13 Graham Donaldson (c)	1 Serge Silvagni	6 Leo Brereton
Res:	3 Dave McCulloch	37 John Heathcote
Coach:	Ken Hands

In: G. Donaldson, G. Collis, V. Varlamos
Out: D. Nicholls, J. Williams, W. Lofts


Ian Collins & Fitzroy's Allan "Butch" Gale, Age April 24

Milestones

Debut: Gordon Collis

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