| Venue: Princes Park | Date: Saturday May 27, 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Result: Win by 11 points | Umpire: Leighton | Crowd: 33,161 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Goalkickers: L.Brereton 2, T.Carroll 2, P.Barry 1, G.Collis 1, M.Cross 1, G.Donaldson 1, S.Silvagni 1. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reports: | Injuries: S.Silvagni (thigh) replaced by B.Buckley last quarter. M.Cross (thigh) by J.Heathcote last quarter. | |||||||||||||||||||
Game Review
In a dour battle of defences at Princes Park, Carlton held sway throughout for another very satisfying win over the Pies - and as a bonus, assumed outright ladder leadership when Melbourne defeated Footscray at the Western Oval.
The only concern for the Blues was our poor percentage of 116.12 - well short of second and third-placed Essendon and Melbourne.
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 | 17 Gordon Collis | 18 Peter Barry |
| F: | 16 Maurie Sankey | 22 Tom Carroll | 23 Martin Cross |
| Ruck: | 13 Graham Donaldson (c) | 1 Serge Silvagni | 6 Leo Brereton |
| Res: | 4 Brian Buckley | 37 John Heathcote | |
| Coach: | Ken Hands | ||
In: B. Crowe, G. Donaldson
Out: J. Williams, D. McCulloch
Round 5 | Round 7