| Venue: Windy Hill | Date: Saturday June 17, 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Result: Loss by 35 points | Umpire: | Crowd: 25,000 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Goalkickers: T.Carroll 3, L.Brereton 1, D.McCulloch 1, J.Nicholls 1, C.Pavlou 1. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reports: | Injuries: | |||||||||||||||||||
Game Review
Although Carlton's finals hopes were dealt another blow when Essendon handed the Blues a six-goal hiding in this match at Windy Hill, and sent us tumbling to seventh on the ladder, our poor percentage made the situation seem worse than it actually was. In fact, as one of five teams with five wins and four losses to this point in the season, we were still only one win away from second place.Melbourne sat four points clear of St Kilda on top, with a rapidly-improving Fitzroy third. The next four sides; Essendon, Hawthorn, Footscray and Carlton, were all still well in the hunt for a finals berth.
Geelong's Doug Wade took over at the top of the VFL goal-kicking table with 26 majors after this round, followed by North Melbourne's John Dugdale with 24, and Tom Carroll of Carlton with 23.
Team
| B: | 15 Bruce Comben | 43 Graeme Anderson | 4 Brian Buckley |
| HB: | 32 Vasil Varlamos | 14 Bob Crowe | 10 John James (acting vc) |
| C: | 21 Bill Arch | 9 Berkley Cox | 35 Chris Pavlou |
| HF: | 3 Dave McCulloch | 17 Gordon Collis | 19 Ian Collins |
| F: | 16 Maurie Sankey | 22 Tom Carroll | 23 Martin Cross |
| Ruck: | 2 John Nicholls (acting capt.) | 1 Serge Silvagni | 6 Leo Brereton |
| Res: | 31 John Williams | 28 Graham Gilchrist | |
| Coach: | Ken Hands | ||
In: M. Sankey, D. McCulloch, G. Anderson
Out: G. Donaldson, P. Barry, B. Williams
Milestones
Debut: Graeme AndersonRound 8 | Round 10