Round 15, 1940

Carlton 4.4 28 10.8 68 13.10 88 20.13 133 Melbourne 3.2 20 5.5 35 9.8 62 14.12 96
Venue:	MCG
Date:	Saturday 10 August 1940
Result:	Win by 37 points
Crowd:	16,500
Goalkickers:	P.Schmidt 5, J.Francis 4, B.Chitty 3, M.Crisp 2, J.Mooring 2, B.Green 1, C.McInnes 1, R.Savage 1, J.Wrout 1.
Reports:
Umpire:	Sullivan
Injuries:	B.McTaggart replaced J.Jones (sprained ankle) in the last quarter
Best:	J.Francis, J.Mooring, B.Chitty, J.Park, P.Schmidt, C.McInness, B.Green

Game Review

Carlton stunned the ladder leading (and eventual Premier) Melbourne with this 37 point win at the MCG. Despite a relatively close game at the last change, Carlton kicked 7 goals to put the game beyond any doubt.

We were in 7th spot with 3 rounds to go - still 2 games off the 3rd placed team.

Team

B:	2 Don McIntyre	26 Jim Park	1 Frank Anderson
HB:	22 Jim Jones	4 Ken Baxter	9 Gordon Cameron
C:	7 Jack Carney	8 Jack Skinner	32 Bob Green
HF:	16 Jim Mooring	28 Jack Wrout	12 Creswell 'Mickey' Crisp
F:	6 Bob Chitty	10 Jim Francis (acting capt.)	23 Paul Schmidt
Ruck:	24 Ron Savage	31 Charlie McInnes	11 Jack Hale
19th Man:	20 Bert McTaggart
Coach:	Brighton Diggins

Jim Francis goals while Mickey Crisp is lying on the ground

Images: Trove; Sporting Globe August 14

Milestones

150 VFL Games: Jack Carney

Footnote:

Ron Barassi (senior) was one of Melbourne's better players in this match. This would be his final game against Carlton.
His last VFL game was in this year's Melbourne premiership team, where he was the 19th man.
Ron would be killed in action at Tobruk North Africa, next year on July 31.
His son Ron (jnr) would become the best player in the VFL who was an inspirational Melbourne captain.
Ron (jnr) would be lured to Carlton in 1965 to be appointed as captain-coach, and coach the Blues to flags in 1968 and 1970

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