| Venue: Princes Park | Date: Saturday May 25, 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Result: Lose by 6 points | Umpire: Jeff Crouch | Crowd: 47,514 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Goalkickers: T.Carroll 2, G.Collis 1, M.Cross 1, J.Nicholls 1, M.Sankey 1, S.Silvagni 1. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Best: S.Silvagni (BOG), J.Nicholls, M.Sankey, M.Kick, J.Gill, B.Cox | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reports: G.Hynes (Geelong) kicking B.Crowe during first quarter. Guilty, 8 weeks. | Injuries: G.Collis (hand) replaced by J.Reilly last quarter. | |||||||||||||||||||
Game Review
The Navy Blues suffered their first loss of the season when they were narrowly beaten by a rapidly-improving Geelong at Princes Park. A strong cross breeze made accurate goal-kicking near impossible, but Cats champion Doug Wade landed two long bombs in the last quarter to get his team over the line by six points.With this result, Essendon and Geelong both leap-frogged Carlton to the top two places on the ladder, with Hawthorn fourth. Early season front-runners Collingwood and North Melbourne were falling off the pace, in seventh and eighth respectively.
Team
| B: | 8 John Benetti | 18 Peter Barry | 4 Brian Buckley |
| HB: | 32 Vasil Varlamos | 20 Wes Lofts | 14 Bob Crowe |
| C: | 25 John Comben | 9 Berkley Cox | 30 Murray Kick |
| HF: | 10 John James | 17 Gordon Collis | 12 John Gill |
| F: | 16 Maurie Sankey | 22 Tom Carroll | 23 Martin Cross |
| Ruck: | 2 John Nicholls (c) | 1 Serge Silvagni (vc) | 7 Bruce Williams |
| Res: | 28 John Reilly | 35 Doug Ringholt | |
| Coach: | Ken Hands | ||
In: M. Cross, D. Ringholt, J. Reilly
Out: P. Falconer, K. Greenwood, B. McMaster-Smith
Milestones
50 Games: Bruce WilliamsDebut: Doug Ringholt
Rnd 6, Ch.9 Replay
Most of the last quarter action can be viewed on youtube courtesy of the Rhettrospective site.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wby7kw8H8c
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