Carlton 1.5 11 6.18 54 8.21 69 12.27 99 Geelong 3.7 25 4.11 35 7.14 56 9.18 72
Venue:	Corio Oval
Date:	Saturday 27 April 1940
Result:	Win by 27 points
Crowd:	12,000
Goalkickers:	K.Baxter 2, R.Cooper 2, P.Schmidt 2, J.Wrout 2, J.Hale 1, H.Hollingshead 1, R.McLean 1, J.Mooring 1.5
Reports:
Umpire:	Coward
Injuries:
Best:	J.Carney, K.Baxter, B.Diggins.

Game Review

You can almost feel the wind crossing the ground with scorelines like this - the Blues prevailed down at Geelong with 12.27, a massive 39 scoring shots, to start Season 1940 with a win.

Farewell Corio Oval

This would be the final time Carlton plays on the Corio Oval. From next season Geelong would play at Kardinia Park.

Place Kicks

"Carlton showed at Geelong that the place kick is not altogether forgotten and demonstrated its value when kicking for goals, Although the Blues' forward work was generally faulty, Wrout and Hale obtained full returns with their attempts at goal."
Jack Wrout place-kicked the Blues' first goal and Jack Hale place-kicked the seventh.
(Sporting Globe April 27 p5)

At the end of this round Carlton were in 2nd spot on the ladder with a percentage of 137.5.

Despite seven months of war, 111,000 people attended the opening round of VFL matches. Just 6,000 down on the opening round of 1939.

Team

B:	2 Don McIntyre	21 Frank Gill	26 Jim Park
HB:	6 Bob Chitty	10 Jim Francis (vc)	1 Frank Anderson
C:	7 Jack Carney	23 Paul Schmidt	32 Bob Green
HF:	19 Ron Cooper	28 Jack Wrout	12 Creswell 'Mickey' Crisp
F:	17 Harry Hollingshead	4 Ken Baxter	16 Jim Mooring
Ruck:	5 Brighton Diggins (cc)	14 Rod McLean	11 Jack Hale
19th Man:	27 Cyril Mann
Coach:	Brighton Diggins

Milestones

Debut: Jim Mooring

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1940 | Round 2