What’s My Number 1 - 59

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The Melbourne Football Club has a rich history in the ranks of the VFL/AFL so while this season has been disrupted by the pandemic, we decided to delve back into our past to bring you the players and the numbers they wore on the backs of their jumpers (qualification - 1 game for the club’s senior team) starting this week from 1 to 10:

Number 1

1912 William Allan (No. 9, 1913; No. 19, 1914)
1913 Douglas Chapman
1914 Des McDonald/Carlyle Kenley (No. 22, 1913)
1915 Johnny Hassett (No. 34, 1913)
1919 – 1923 William Allan (see 1912 above)
1924 – 1931 Stan Wittman
1932 Leo Nolan
1933 Noel Barnett
1934 Col Niven (No. 10, 1933; No. 2, 1935)
1935 – 1940 Gordon Jones
1941 Stan 'Pop' Heal
1942 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott (No. 5, 1937 – 1940)
1943 Keith Shadbolt/Don Hooper (No. 18, 1932 – 1935)
1944 Ron Kimberley (No. 21, 1939 – 1941)/Jack Compton
1946 – 1947 Ern Rowarth (No. 33, 1945)
1948 James Mitchell (No. 37, 1946 – 1947)
1948 – 1956 Denis Cordner (No. 17, 1943)
1957 – 1959 Dick Fenton-Smith
1961 Bruce Leslie
1963 Garry Byers (No. 50, 1962)
1964 – 1967 Robert Foster
1968 – 1972 Max Walker (No. 46, 1967)
1974 – 1981 Garry Baker
1984 – 1985 Steven Smith (No. 35, 1974 – 1983)
1988 – 1991 Steven O’Dwyer (No. 32, 1987)
1993 – 1994 Adrian Campbell
1995 – 1997 Sean Charles (No. 44, 1992 – 1993; No. 18, 1994)
1998 – 1999 Jamie Shanahan
2003 – 2005 Chris Heffernan
2006 – 2009 Simon Buckley
2010 - 2011 Matthew Warnock (No. 37, 2006-2009)
2015 - 2018 Jesse Hogan
2019 - Steven May

Number 2

1912 Harry Brereton (No. 7, 1915)
1913 Algernon Millhouse
1914 William Quinn
1915 Percy Rodriguez
1919 – 1920 Eric Tonkin
1921 – 1924 Joe Flanagan
1925 Clarrie Wyatt
1928 PB ‘Barney’ Wood
1929 – 1934 Wyn Murray
1934 Joe Kinnear (No. 17, 1932; No. 15, 1933; No. 36, 1935; No. 6, 1936 – 1937
1935 Colin Niven (No. 10, 1933; No. 1, 1934)
1936 – 1939 Lou Reiffel
1939 – 1940, 1942 – 1946 Roy Dowsing
1947 David Newman
1948 – 1955 Robert McKenzie Snr
1958 – 1963 Alan Rowarth
1966 – 1967 Robert Stewart
1968 Robert Dowsing (No. 38, 1966 – 1967)
1969 – 1970 Denis Clark (No. 38, 1968; No. 17, 1971 – 1975)
1971 – 1972 Robert D. McKenzie (No. 50, 1969; No. 10, 1970)
1973 – 1987 Robert Flower
1992 – 1999 Stephen Tingay (No. 52, 1989; No. 15, 1990 – 1991)
2002 – 2005 Steven Armstrong
2006 – Nathan Jones

Number 3

1912 Alf George (No. 14, 1913; No. 29, 1915)
1913 Jack D. Robertson (No. 10, 1912)
1914 Jack Huntington (No. 28, 1915; No. 19, 1919 – 1920)
1915 Jack McKenzie
1919 Percy Love
1920 Leo Little (No. 31, 1919)
1921 – 1929 EH 'Ted' Thomas (No. 12, 1932)
1930 – 1934 George Margitich
1935 Ken Feltscheer (No. 22, 1936)
1936 – 1938 John Lewis
1939 – 1941 William Baxter
1942 Robert Spargo
1943 Keith Molloy (No. 27, 1945)
1943 – 1947 Ron Irwin
1948 – 1952 Geoff Collins (No. 8, 1954)
1953 – 1958 Peter Marquis
1964, 1966 Maurie Bartlett
1966, 1968 Sid Catlin
1969 – 1973 Trevor Rollinson
1976 – 1978 Barry Tippett
1979 – 1980 Henry Coles (No. 13, 1975 – 1978)
1982 – 1985 Gerard Healy (No. 39, 1979 – 1981)
1986 – 1999 Garry Lyon
2002 – 2007 Clint Bizzell
2008 - 2012 Clint Bartram
2014 - Christian Salem

Number 4

1912 Jim Fitzpatrick (No. 12, 1913)
1913 William McKenzie (No. 6, 1912; No. 27, 1914; No. 18, 1915)
1914 Percy Colee
1915 Tim Collins (No. 24, 1914)
1919 William McKenzie (see above)
1920 Alec Farrow (No. 25, 1919; No. 28, 1921)
1921 Francis Lyon
1922 Alf Oldham
1923 – 1924 Tom Elliott
1926 – 1932 Jim Abernethy (No. 14, 1923 – 1924)
1933 – 1934 Jack Sambell
1935 – 1948 Norman Smith
1949 Robert Chadwick
1950 Jack Hiscock
1951 – 1955 Ken Christie
1957 – 1965 John Lord
1966 – 1967 Peter Smith
1968 – 1979 Tony Sullivan (No. 43, 1967)
1980 – 1987 Peter Giles (No. 45, 1979)
1988 – 1991 Tony Campbell (No. 40, 1986 – 1987)
1992, 1994 Chris Sullivan
1995 – 1997 Andrew Obst (No. 29, 1990 – 1994)
1998 – 2001 Brent Grgic (No. 48, 1997)
2002 - 2003 Craig Ellis
2004 – 2008 Ben Holland
2009 - 2017 Jack Watts
2018 - James Harmes

Number 5

1912 William Hendrie (No. 11, 1913; No. 15, 1914; No. 12, 1915)
1913 Bobby Monk (No. 9, 1912; No. 16, 1914)
1914 Wal Riddington
1919 RJ 'Bob' Love
1920 – 1924 Harry Harker
1925 Gerry Donnelly
1926 WO 'Ossie' Green (No. 22, 1929; ?, 1931)
1927 – 1929 E 'Tommy' McConville
1930 – 1932 HA 'Hec' Davidson
1932 – 1936 William Deague
1937 – 1940 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott (No. 1, 1942)
1941 Ron White
1942 Tom Bush (No. 17, 1944)
1943 Ron White
1943 – 1950 William 'Billy' Deans (?, 1942)
1951 – 1960 Ian McLean
1962 – 1966 Neil Crompton (No. 12, 1957 – 1960)
1967, 1969 Chris Aitken (No. 14, 1977)
1971 – 1972 John Gallus
1973 – 1974 John Clennett (No. 34, 1972)
1975 – 1977 Des Campbell (No. 18, 1970)
1978 – 1980 Graham Hunnibell
1981 – 1982 Michael Young
1984 Ray Holden
1985 – 1987 Robin White
1988 – 1991 Earl Spalding (No. 35, 1987)
1992 – 2002 David Schwarz
2004 – 2009 Brock McLean
2010 - 2012 Jordan Gysberts
2013 - 2015 Jimmy Toumpas
2016 - Christian Petracca 

Number 6

1912 William McKenzie (No. 4, 1913, 1919; No. 27, 1914; No. 18, 1915)
1913 Charlie H. Lilley (No. 11, 1914; No. 8, 1919 – 1925)
1914 Rupert Lowell
1915 Charlie H. Lilley (see above)
1919 – 1922 E ‘Herb’ Matthews
1923 LC ‘Bob’ Abernethy
1924 WJ ‘Johnny’ Egan
1925 Edward Parker
1926 – 1927 Jim Veal
1928 Allan Hope
1929 – 1932 Ted Esposito
1932 – 1935 Archie Roberts (No. 27, 1936)
1936 – 1937 Joe Kinnear (No. 17, 1932; No. 15, 1933; No. 2, 1934; No. 36, 1935)
1936 Jack Harrison (?, 1933)
1939 Ian Giles
1940, 1942 – 1947 Fred Fanning
1948 – 1950 Eddie Craddock (No. 9, 1947)
1951 Kevin Webb
1952 – 1954 Ken Albiston
1955 – 1964 Frank ‘Bluey’ Adams (No. 41, 1953 – 1954)
1965 – 1973 Frank Davis (No. 40, 1964)
1974 – 1978 Ross Brewer (No. 27, 1972 – 1973)
1979 Ken Roberts (No. 10, 1978)
1979 – 1981 Robert Elliott
1982 – 1986 Michael O’Sullivan
1989 – 1999 Glenn Lovett (No. 51, 1987)
2001 - 2004 Scott Thompson
2006 - 2012 Matthew Bate
2013 - 2016 Chris Dawes 
2017 - 2019 Jordan Lewis 

Number 7

1912 WD ‘Bill’ Hickey
1913 Norm McDougall
1914 Jack A ‘Dodger’ Evans (No. 29, 1912; No. 8, 1913, 1915; No. 28, 1919)
1915 Harry Brereton (No. 2, 1912)
1919 Reg Gibb (No. 19, 1915)
1919 William Hore
1920 – 1924 Mick Anthony
1925 – 1927 Frank Jorgensen
1928 – 1930 Vince Driver
1931 – 1933 H ‘Bert’ Avery
1934 – 1936 AE ‘Bert’ Taylor
1937 – 1940 Hugh Murnane
1942 Jack Heal
1943 Robert Stone (No. 32, 1942; No. 36, 1949)
1944 – 1946 Clem Conroy
1947 – 1952 Eddie Jackson
1953 – 1962 Geoff Case
1963 – 1964 Owen Zinko
1966 – 1975 Graham Osborne (No. 24, 1976 – 1977)
1976 Ray Smith (No. 43, 1975)
1977 – 1979 Barry Denny
1980 – 1981 Phil Pinnell
1982 – 1990 Brian Wilson
1991 Rod Owen
1992 – 1999 Darren Kowal
2000 - 2002 Stephen Powell
2003 Gary Moorcroft
2004 - 2010 Brad Miller (No. 37, 2002 – 2003)
2011 - 2012 Jamie Bennell (No. 43, 2009 - 2010)
2013 - Jack Viney

Number 8

1912 Fred Harris (No. 29, 1912; No. 7, 1914; No. 28, 1919)
1913 Jack A ‘Dodger’ Evans
1914 A ‘Bert’ Trahair
1915 Jack A ‘Dodger’ Evans (see 1913 above)
1919 – 1925 Charlie H. Lilley (No. 6, 1913, 1915; No. 11, 1914)
1926 – 1929 Herbie J. White
1931 – 1932 W ‘Bull’ Adams
1933 – 1941 Rowley Fischer
1942 – 1943 Don Hewson (?, 1944)
1945 Ralph Latham
1946 – 1947 Roy Stabb (No. 22, 1945)
1948 – 1951 Doug Heywood (No. 25,1943; No. 26, 1944)
1952 Ian Toyne
1952 Maurie Lehmann
1953 Don Cameron
1954 Geoff Collins (No. 3, 1948 – 1952)
1955 Kevin Clark
1956 – 1957 Jim Sandral
1959 – 1969 R ‘Tassie’ Johnson
1970 – 1975 Peter ‘Crackers’ Keenan (No. 10, 1981 – 1982)
1976 – 1978 Peter Johnston
1979 Glenn Elliott
1980 – 1982 Brent Crosswell
1983 Les Bamblett
1984 Peter Thorne (No. 40, 1978 – 1979)
1985 – 1995 Graeme Yeats (No. 45, 1984)
1996 Craig Turley
1999 Jeff Farmer
2000 James Cook
2001 – 2006 Alistair Nicholson (No. 44, 1997 – 2000)
2007 – 2014 James Frawley
2015 - 2016 Heritier Lumumba
2018 - Jake Lever

Number 9

1912 Bobby Monk (No. 5, 1913; No. 16, 1914)
1913 William ‘Bill’ Allan (No. 1, 1912, 1919 – 1923; No. 19, 1914)
1914 Harry Britter
1915 William ‘Bill’ Allan (see 1913 above)
1919 John McMahon
1920 – 1928 Charles ‘Brum’ Streeter
1930 – 1931 Howard Steel (No. 30, 1932)
1932 HA ‘Arch’ Dickens
1933 – 1936 Charlie Longhurst
1937 – 1943 Richard Emselle
1944 – 1946 Ivan Porter
1947 Eddie Craddock (No. 6, 1948 – 1950)
1948 Les Crawley
1949 Colin Cox (No. 26, 1948)
1949 Ray Harvey
1950 Con O’Toole
1951 Alan Daly
1952 – 1953 Max Orr
1953 Peter Schofield
1954 – 1968 Brian Dixon
1969 – 1972 George Lakes (No. 39, 1968)
1972 Peter Yeo
1973 – 1974 Steve Kerley (No. 49, 1971; No. 41, 1972)
1975 – 1981 Laurie Fowler
1982 – 1990 Alan Johnson
1992 – 1993 Darren Cuthbertson (No. 48, 1991)
1994 - 2008 David Neitz (No. 38, 1993)
2010 - 2017 Jack Trengove 
2018 - Charlie Spargo

Number 10

1912 Jack D. Robertson (No. 3, 1913)
1913 J Watt
1914 Bill Daly (No. 18, 1913)
1915 J Watt (see above, 1913)
1919 Gordon Coulter
1920 – 1921 Jack Brake (see also 1915)
1923 – 1931 Jack Collins
1932 Geoff McInnes (No. 17, 1933)
1933 Colin Niven (No. 1, 1934; No. 2, 1935)
1934 – 1936 Jack Bennett (No. 34, 1933)
1937 Fred Backway (No. 21, 1935)
1937 – 1943 Maurie Gibb (No. 14, 1934 – 1937)
1938 (also) Len Catton
1944 – 1945 Gordon Kramer (No. 26, 1942)
1946 – 1954 Lance Arnold
1957 – 1961 Robert S. Turner
1962 – 1967, 1969 Ken Emselle
1970 Robert B. McKenzie (No. 50, 1969; No. 2, 1971 – 1972)
1971 – 1972 Lloyd Burgmann (No. 40, 1970)
1973 – 1975 Carl Ditterich
1976 – 1978 Craig McKellar
1978 Ken Roberts (No. 6, 1979)
1979 – 1980 Carl Ditterich (see also 1973 – 1975)
1981 – 1982 Peter ‘Crackers’ Keenan (No. 8, 1970 – 1975)
1983 Peter Moore (No. 30, 1984 – 1987)
1984 – 1990 Danny Hughes
1992 Matthew Mahoney (No. 46, 1990)
1994 Martin Pike (No. 22, 1993)
1995 – 2000 Marcus Seecamp
2001 - 2007 Daniel Ward (No. 49, 1998 – 1999; No. 26, 1999 – 2000)
2008 - 2012 Cale Morton 
2013 - 2014 Shannon Byrnes
2015 - Angus Brayshaw 

[Elwood 3184 1,298]

The number 2 has been a very stable number. Only four players have worn the number since 1973.

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Who were the best players by number?

1. Dennis Cordner

2. Robert Flower

3. Gary Lyon 

4. Norman Smith

5. David Schwarz

6. Frank “Bluey” Adams 

7. Brian Wilson

8. R “Tassie” Johnson

9. David Neitz (apologies to Brian Dixon)

10. Carl Ditterich

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Thanks for posting this. For those interested, the games record holders per ju,per number 1-10...

1. Denis Cordner

2. Nathan Jones

3. Garry Lyon

4. Norm Smith

5. David Schwarz

6. Frank Davis

7. Brian Wilson

8. Tassie Johnson

9. David Neitz

10. Lance Arnold

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Continuing the series -

Number 11

1912 Hedley Tomkins (No. 17, 1913)
1913 William Hendrie (No. 5, 1912; No. 15, 1914; No. 12, 1915)
1914 Charlie H. Lilley (No. 6, 1913, 1915; No. 8, 1919 – 1925)
1915, 1919 – 1920 Jack Bacquie (No. 35, 1914)
1921 Jack Lord Snr (No. 26, 1922 – 1923)
1922 – 1924 Dave Elliman (No. 35, 1919)
1925 – 1928 CD ‘Derek’ Mollison (No. 16, 1923 – 1925) wore both 11 and 16 in 1925
1925 – 1926 Carlyle Jones (No. 25, 1929)
1926 Bruce Pie
1929 Art Beaumont
1931 – 1932 Frank Smith
1932 Terry Ogden
1933 Robert C Johnson (No. 16, 1926 – 1932)
1934 – 1936 Sid Meehl
1936 Harden Dean (No. 29, 1938; No. 38, 1943)
1937 Beres Reilly
1938 Sid Meehl (see also 1934 – 1936)
1939 – 1940 Harold C Ball
1941 Warren Lewis (No. 33, 1944)
1942 – 1944 Norm Matthews (?, 1935)
1945 – 1950 Gordon Bowman
1952 – 1953 Jim Wilson
1954 – 1962 Laurie Mithen
1963 – 1969 TG ‘Tony’ Anderson
1970 – 1980 Greg Wells (No. 50, 1969)
1981 Gary Hardeman (No. 33, 1967 – 1977)
1982 – 1987 Steven Icke
1988 – 1998 Jim Stynes (No. 37, 1987)
2001 Troy Simmonds (No. 46, 1999 – 2000)
2002 - 2004 Darren Jolly (No. 41, 2001)
2005-2010 Paul Johnson    
2012-2013 Mitch Clark    
2015 - Max Gawn (No. 37, 2011 - 2014)

Number 12

1912 Malcolm Kennedy
1913 Jim Fitzpatrick (No. 4, 1912)
1914 William Hendrie (No. 5, 1912; No. 11, 1913; No. 15, 1914)
1919 Allan McLean
1920 – 1929 Bob Corbett
1930 – 1931 Jack Power (No. 31, 1932 – 1934)
1932 EH ‘Ted’ Thomas (No. 3, 1921 – 1928)
1932 – 1933 Alan ‘Ginger’ Ryan
1934 – 1949 Jack Mueller (No. 36, 1950)
1950 – 1956 Stuart Spencer
1957 – 1960 Neil Crompton (No. 5, 1962 – 1966)
1961 – 1962 Michael Joseph Collins
1965 Hugh Bromell
1967 – 1969 Chris Fowler
1970 Rod Payne
1972 – 1974 Michael John Collins (No. 48, 1971)
1975 – 1977 Martin Lyons
1977 – 1979 Barry Norsworthy
1979 – 1982 Cameron Clayton
1983 – 1986 David Williams (No. 15, 1987 – 1988)
1987 – 1999 Todd Viney
2004-2013 Colin Sylvia        
2014-2018 Dom Tyson        
2020 - Toby Bedford 

Number 13

1912 H ‘Bert’ Francis
1913 Fen McDonald
1914 Stanley J Fairbairn
1919 Lindsay Nichol
1920 – 1924 Bill Shelton (No. 30, 1919; No. 20, 1925)
1931 Gordon Lindsay
1932 Joe Hogan
1933 – 1941 Les Jones
1941 – 1942 George Lenne (No. 20, 1945)
1944 Frank Scanlan (No. 26, 1943; No. 34, 1947 – 1948)
1947 – 1950 Max Spittle
1951 – 1953 Alan Krause
1975 – 1978 Henry Coles (No. 3, 1979 – 1980)
1979 – 1981 Wayne Gordon
1989 Tom Kavanagh
1991 – 1994 Allen Jakovich
1996 - 2008 Adem Yze
2010-2015 Jordie McKenzie (No 49, 2009)
2016 - Clayton Oliver    

Number 14

1912 Jack Bristow (No. 18, 1913)
1913 Alf George (No. 3, 1912; No. 29, 1915)
1914 Mick Maguire (No. 30, 1912 – 1913)
1915, 1919 – 1921 Alec Gray (No. 22, 1914)
1923 – 1924 Jim Abernethy (No. 4, 1926 – 1932)
1925 – 1932 Ivor Warne-Smith (No. 33, 1919)
1932 Jack Richardson
1933 Ray Usher (No. 34, 1928 – 1932)
1934 – 1937 Maurie Gibb (No. 10, 1937 – 1943)
1938 – 1940 Jack Maher (No. 37, 1944)
1941 – 1945 George Archibald
1945 – 1947 Ron Hall (?, 1944)
1947 Jack Furniss (No. 26, 1936 – 1940)
1948 – 1949 Eric Roscoe
1950 – 1952 Robert Johnston
1955 – 1962 Trevor Johnson
1963 – 1973 Barry Bourke
1974 – 1976 Neil Chamberlain (No. 54, 1973)
1977 Chris Aitken (No. 5, 1967, 1969)
1977 – 1982 Michael Byrne
1983 – 1984 Roger Ellingworth (No. 34, 1981 – 1982)
1985 – 1994 Rodney Grinter
1996 Michael Polley
1997 Leigh Newton
2000 - 2002 Steven Pitt
2006 -2016 Lynden Dunn
2017 - Michael Hibberd

Number 15

1912 Tim Lane (No. 25, 1912)
1913 Ted Politz
1914 William Hendrie (No. 5, 1912; No. 11, 1913; No. 12, 1915)
1915 Ed Buckley
1919 – 1925 George Haines (Heinz)
1927 – 1929 Charlie Barnes (No. 18, also 1928)
1930 – 1931 Harry S Crapper
1932 Tom McMahon
1933 Joe Kinnear (No. 17, 1932; No. 2, 1934; No. 36, 1935; No. 6, 1936 – 1937)
1934 Edwin Pemberton (No. 19, 1930 – 1933)
1935 Audley Gillespie-Jones
1935 – 1942 Ron Baggott
1943 – 1944 Colin Bradley (No. 29, 1942)
1945 Ron Baggott (see also 1935 – 1942)
1946 Jack Quinn
1947 – 1948 Frank O’Connor
1949 Len Toyne
1950 Max Jeffers
1951 Geoff Mason
1951 – 1952 Terry Pierce
1955 – 1959 Athol Webb
1963 – 1964 Ray Groom (No. 31, 1965 – 1968)
1965 – 1976 Stan Alves
1977 Darryl Cumming
1978 – 1980 Phil Seaton
1981 – 1982 Vin Catoggio
1984 – 1986 Mark Withers
1987 – 1988 David Williams (No. 12, 1983 – 1984, 1986)
1990 – 1991 Stephen Tingay (No. 52, 1989; No. 2, 1992 – 1998)
1993 Haydn Robins (No. 46, 1992)
1994 – 1999 Paul Hopgood (No. 30, 1993)
2001 – 2002 Ross Funcke
2003 – 2006 Nick Smith
2007-2012 Ricky Petterd
2013 David Rodan
2015-2019 Billy Stretch
2020 - Ed Langdon    

Number 16

1912 Bill Flintoft
1913 Bill Angwin
1914 Bobby Monk (No. 9, 1912; No. 5, 1913)
1915 Roy L Park
1919 George Walker (No. 26, 1914; No. 20, 1915, 1920 – 1921; No. 28, 1920 also)
1920 Hugh Odgers (No. 26, 1912)
1921 Clarrie L Lethlean
1923 – 1925 CD ‘Derek’ Mollison (No. 11, 1926 – 1928; wore both 11 and 16 in 1925)
1926 – 1932 Robert C Johnson (No. 11, 1933)
1933 – 1938 Eric ‘Tarzan’ Glass
1939 Gerry Daly (No. 27, 1940 – 1941, 1946)
1940 Jack Atkins
1941 Hugh McPherson (No. 25, 1942)
1942 Tom Ferguson (No. 22, 1943)
1943 – 1944 Hugh McPherson (see 1941 above)
1945 – 1952 George Bickford
1954 – 1956 Clyde Laidlaw (No. 35, 1957 – 1962)
1957 – 1961 Robert B Johnson (No. 18, 1954 – 1956)
1962 – 1972 John Townsend
1975 – 1977 Peter Keays (No. 51, 1974)
1979 – 1981 Robert Walters (No. 32, 1977 – 1978)
1982 – 1987 Adrian Battiston
1988 – 1995 Anthony ‘Andy’ Lovell
1996 David Grant
1997 Robert Pyman
1998 – 2007 Travis Johnstone
2008-2012 Jack Grimes
2014-2018 Dean Kent (No. 34, 2013)
2019 - Kade Kolodjashnij    

Number 17

1912 Wally Naismith
1913 Hedley Tomkins (No. 11, 1912)
1914 Frank Lugton (No. 32, 1913)
1915 Alex Fraser (No. 40, 1914)
1919 Con Kenney
1920 – 1928 Albert Chadwick
1929 – 1931 William MacDonald
1932 Joe Kinnear (No. 15, 1933; No. 2, 1934; No. 36, 1935; No. 6, 1936 – 1937)
1933 Geoff McInnes (No. 10, 1932)
1934 – 1942 Allan La Fontaine
1943 Denis Cordner (No. 1, 1948 – 1956)
1943 Frank Deayton (No. 27, 1942)
1944 Tom Bush (No. 5, 1942)
1945 Allan La Fontaine (see 1934 – 1942)
1946 – 1947 Frank Kennedy (No. 39, 1944; No. 37, 1945)
1948 Greg Lourey (No. 28, 1950)
1949 Jim Dorgan
1950 – 1956 Geoff McGivern
1958 Graeme Wilkinson
1961 – 1963 Ray Dawson
1964 – 1965 Graeme Watson
1966 Jeff Chapman
1967 John Comben
1968 – 1970 Kelvin Clarke
1971 – 1975 Denis Clark
1976 – 1979 Shane Grambeau
1980 – 1983 Michael Seddon
1986 Frank Rugolo (No. 43, 1983 – 1984; No. 34, 1985)
1987 – 1997 Brett Lovett (No. 50, 1986)
2002 Michael Clark
2005 - 2007 Chris Johnson 
2012-2014 Sam Blease Number (No. 46, 2011)
2015-2019 Sam Frost

Number 18

1912 Harry ‘Waratah’ Cope (No. 20, 1913)
1913 Jack Bristow (No. 14, 1912)
1913 Jim Mackie
1913 Bill Daly (No. 10, 1914)
1914 Les A. Smith
1915 William McKenzie (No. 6, 1912; No. 4, 1913, 1919; No. 27, 1914)
1919 Stan Huntington
1920 Bob Bodington (No. 28, 1919)
1921 – 1927 ‘Percy’ A Tulloh
1928 Charlie Barnes (No. 15, 1927 – 1929; wore both 15 and 18 in 1928)
1929 Alec Proudfoot
1930 – 1931 William Cutler
1932 – 1935 Don Hooper (No. 1, 1943)
1936 – 1941 Wally Lock
1942 – 1944 David Walsh
1943 Bill Scanlan (No. 38, 1944; No. 19, 1945 – 1948)
1945 Adrian ‘Spud’ Dullard (No. 34, 1940 – 1943; No. 28, 1946 – 1949)
1946 – 1949 Wally Lock (See also 1936 – 1941)
1950 – 1951 Nevin Paynter
1952 Harry Lack
1953 Nevin Paynter (See also 1950 – 1951)
1954 – 1956 Robert B. Johnson (No. 16, 1957 – 1961)
1957 – 1958 Kevin Mithen
1961 – 1965 Brian ‘Doc’ Roet (No. 23, 1968)
1966 – 1969 Neville Stone
1970 Des Campbell (No. 5, 1975 – 1977)
1971 – 1975 John Tilbrook
1976 – 1980 Maurice Wingate
1982 – 1984 Greg Hutchison (No. 52, 1975; No. 43, 1976 – 1981)
1986 – 1993 Steven Stretch
1994 Sean Charles (No. 44, 1992 – 1993; No. 1, 1995 – 1997)
1996 – 1997 Craig Nettelbeck
1999 Matthew Bishop (No. 48, 1998)
2000-2012 Brad Green
2014-2015 Daniel Cross
2017 - Jake Melksham    

Number 19

1912 – 1913 A.M. ‘Joe’ Pearce
1914 William ‘Bill’ Allan (No. 1, 1912, 1919 – 1923; No. 9, 1913, 1915)
1915 Reg Gibb (No. 7, 1919)
1919 – 1920 Jack Huntington (No. 3, 1914; No. 28, 1915)
1921 – 1928 Harry Coy
1929 Claud Carr (No. 22, 1928)
1930 – 1933 Edwin Pemberton (No. 15, 1934)
1934 Ron Wilson
1936 – 1941 Frank Roberts
1942 Robert Shearer
1944 R.G.W. ‘Lloyd’ Bennett
1945 – 1948 Bill Scanlan (No. 18, 1943; No. 38, 1944)
1949 – 1952 Colin Love
1952 – 1958 Keith Carroll
1961 – 1964 Robert Carroll
1966 – 1967 Terry Leahy
1969 – 1979 Ray Biffin (No. 40, 1968)
1980 – 1982 Bill Nettlefold
1983 – 1986 Rodney Wright
1986 – 1988 Paul Payne
1989 – 1993 Darren Bennett
1994 – 1997 Paul Prymke
1999 – 2000 Scott Chisholm
2001 Ben Beams (No. 47, 1999 – 2000)
2002 - 2004 Peter Vardy
2006 – 2007 Clint Bartram (No. 3, 2008-20????)
2008-2011 Addam Maric 
2015-2016 Ben Newton
2017 - Mitch Hannan    

Number 20

1912 Wally Sykes
1913 Harry ‘Waratah’ Cope (No. 18, 1912)
1913 Thornton Hosking
1914 Aubrey MacKenzie
1914 Eric Parsons
1915 George Walker (No. 26, 1914; No. 16, 1919)
1919 Edward Johnston (No. 23, 1915)
1919 Art McWhinney
1920 – 1921 George Walker (No. 28 – 1920 also; see also 1915 above)
1920 Joe O’Carroll
1921 – 1925 Alf Wilson
1925 Bill Shelton (No. 30, 1919; No. 13, 1920 – 1924)
1927 – 1928 Les Meade
1929 – 1937 Harry Long
1937 Jack ‘Cactus’ Coolahan
1938 – 1939, 1941 Frank Williams
1942 Ted Wood
1943 – 1944 H.A. ‘Bob’ Herbert
1945 Harry New (No. 31, 1944)
1945 George Lenne (No. 13, 1941 – 1942)
1946 Norm Wilson (No. 30, 1945)
1947 – 1948 Russell Robinson
1949 – 1950 Alan McGowan (No. 33, 1948)
1951 – 1952 Tom McLean
1957 – 1961 Graeme Pinfold
1964 – 1967 Graeme Jacobs
1969 – 1970 Paul Rowlands
1972 Laurie Queay
1973 Shane McSpeerin (No. 50, 1971 – 1972)
1975 – 1977 Paul Hurst
1977 Brian Cook
1978 – 1982 Graeme Gaunt
1983 – 1987 Russell Richards
1992 – 2000 Matthew Febey
2001 – 2004 Troy Broadbridge
2007-2016 Colin Garland        
2018 Corey Maynard (No. 48 2017)
2020 Adam Tomlinson    

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On 4/11/2020 at 12:41 PM, Elwood 3184 said:

The number 2 has been a very stable number. Only four players have worn the number since 1973.

Also had the most talented players maybe?

Bob McKenzie (snr), Robert Flower, Stephen Tingay and Nathan Jones during my lifetime. Not a bad quartet.

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There is some controversy about Greg Wells and if he wore the no. 50 in his debut at Princes Park in 1969, even though that was first allocated number and he wore it while playing in the seconds.

This topic came up on the old Demonology years ago and people who were there that day swore that wore the no. 11 in that game and henceforth, but the matter has never been resolved AFAIK.

The above list has the recently departed Tony Anderson as the wearer of no. 11 in 1969, but he retired that year after only three games, which makes it entirely possible that Wellsy did indeed don that number in his first senior game.

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Interesting to see large gaps where 13 hasn't been worn. Superstition I assume, but does anyone know more?

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On 4/18/2020 at 9:17 AM, Whispering_Jack said:

Continuing the series -

Number 11

 2015 - Max Gawn (No. 38, 2011 - 2014)

 

Wasn't Max (like Jimmy) in No. 37 before he got 11 ?

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6 hours ago, gs77 said:

Interesting to see large gaps where 13 hasn't been worn. Superstition I assume, but does anyone know more?

No 13 was retired after Wayne Gordon passed away from cancer.   I don't know any more about the number.

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The last six #11s are all ruckmen (admittedly, Mitch Clark was more a forward than ruck). Is it accepted club "policy" that #11 is now reserved for a ruckman? Or is it just that the ruckmen who followed Jim Stynes want to wear his number if the opportunity arises?  Or is it nothing more than coincidence?

1988 – 1998 Jim Stynes (No. 37, 1987)
2001 Troy Simmonds (No. 46, 1999 – 2000)
2002 - 2004 Darren Jolly (No. 41, 2001)
2005-2010 Paul Johnson    
2012-2013 Mitch Clark    
2015 - Max Gawn (No. 38, 2011 - 2014)

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21 hours ago, demonstone said:

There is some controversy about Greg Wells and if he wore the no. 50 in his debut at Princes Park in 1969, even though that was first allocated number and he wore it while playing in the seconds.

This topic came up on the old Demonology years ago and people who were there that day swore that wore the no. 11 in that game and henceforth, but the matter has never been resolved AFAIK.

The above list has the recently departed Tony Anderson as the wearer of no. 11 in 1969, but he retired that year after only three games, which makes it entirely possible that Wellsy did indeed don that number in his first senior game.

I was in that discussion.

I was at the game and still have the record. It was against Carlton at the MCG, he wore number 11

At no time did he wear the number 50 playing in the seniors.

Edited April 20, 2020 by tilly18

[Demonstone 22,338]

Cheers tilly, not just first-hand observation but documentary evidence as well.

I wonder if @Supermercado is aware of this?

[tilly18 289]

I just had a look and Demonwiki and it shows he wore 50 in the reserves and only 11 in the seniors.

[Supermercado 2,797]

He was #50 earlier in the year but by the time he debut Wells was #11. Confirmed by somebody with the full set of Footy Records from that year.

Some confusion as AFL Tables had the wrong number for many years so it crossed over to Demonwiki until I realised both he and Robert McKenzie were shown as wearing #50 in the same game.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,706]

11 hours ago, Supermercado said:

He was #50 earlier in the year but by the time he debut Wells was #11. Confirmed by somebody with the full set of Footy Records from that year.

Some confusion as AFL Tables had the wrong number for many years so it crossed over to Demonwiki until I realised both he and Robert McKenzie were shown as wearing #50 in the same game.

We should have done this with the Febey twins. Play one in the first half and then play the other one in the second half.

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The next 10 numbers -

Number 21

1912 Arthur Ferguson
1913 Charles S. ‘Buns’ Armstrong (No. 29, 1914, 1919)
1914 Herbert Roberts
1915 William Brunier (No. 38, 1914; No. 22, 1919)
1919 – 1923 Jack House
1924 – 1925 Robert Ewer
1926 Tom O’Brien
1928 Gerry Beare
1928 William London
1929 William Coomber
1930 – 1934 E.W. ‘Bill’ Vanthoff
1935 Fred Backway (No. 10, 1937)
1936 William Ralston
1938 George McNaughton
1939 – 1941 Ron Kimberley (No. 1, 1944)
1941 – 1950 Donald Cordner
1951 John Cordner
1953, 1955 Noel Baker
1956 – 1958 D.A. ‘Peter’ Cook
1960 – 1965 Brian ‘Wrecker’ Leahy
1966 Edward Burston
1967 – 1968 Edward Lees
1969 David Hone
1970 – 1975 Graham Molloy
1976 – 1977 Allan Davis
1979 – 1981 Jim Durnan
1983 – 1984 Peter Tossol (No. 46, 1982)
1985 Les Parish
1986 Mike Reynolds
1988 – 2002 Steven Febey
2003 - 2009 Daniel Bell
2013 -2018 Cameron Pedersen
2019 - Brayden Preuss 

Number 22

1912 Bernie ‘Rookie’ Nolan
1913 Laurie Brady
1913 Carlyle Kenley (No. 1, 1914)
1914 Alec Gray (No. 14, 1915, 1919 – 1921)
1915 Rupert Lowell (No. 6, 1914)
1919 William Brunier (No. 38, 1914; No. 21, 1915)
1920 Syd Hutcheson
1921 W. Harry Bruce
1922 J. ‘Charlie’ Corby
1923 Jim Makin
1925 – 1927 Harold Moyes
1928 Claud Carr (No. 19, 1929)
1929 W.O. ‘Ossie’ Green (No. 5, 1926; No. ?, 1931)
1930 Fred S. ‘Pop’ Vine (No. 23, 1926 – 1934)
1930 – 1932 Reginald E. Conole (No. 29, 1933)
1933 – 1935 William Libbis
1936 Ken Feltscheer
1938 – 1939 Harry Harley
1940 – 1941 J.P. ‘Shane’ McGrath
1942 Arthur Franklin
1943 Thomas Ferguson (No. 16, 1942)
1944 Anthony Bizzaca
1944 J.P. ‘Shane’ McGrath (See also 1940 – 1941)
1945 Roy Stabb (No. 8, 1946 – 1947)
1945 Ernie O’Rourke (No. 27, 1946 – 1948)
1946 – 1950 J.P. ‘Shane’ McGrath (See also 1940 – 1941, 1944)
1951 – 1954 John Ferguson
1955 Ivan Baumgartner
1957 Ben Crameri
1958 John Kerr
1959 – 1969 Bryan Kenneally
1970 – 1972 Ray Carr
1973 Henry Ritterman (No. 45, 1971 – 1972)
1974 Charlie Pagnoccolo
1975 – 1977 Frank Giampaolo (No. 43, 1973 – 1974)
1978 – 1979 Ken Whitfort
1982 – 1989 Chris Connolly
1992 Stephen Wearne
1993 Martin Pike (No. 10, 1994)
1994 – 1996 Jeff Hilton
1997 – 2002 Shane Woewodin
2005 - 2012 Brent Moloney
2013 James Magner (No. 49, 2012)
2014 - 2016 Viv Michie    
2017- Aaron vandenBerg    

Number 23

1913 Campbell Brady
1914 Vic Gordon
1915 Edward Johnston (No. 20, 1919)
1919 Alex Salvado
1920 – 1922 Les Boyd
1923 – 1924 Roy James
1925 Frank Richardson
1926 – 1934 Fred S. ‘Pop’ Vine (No. 22 – 1930 also)
1935 – 1942 Ray Wartman
1943 – 1944 M. Jack Doherty
1945 Norm Leverton
1946 Ted Cordner (No. 28, 1941 – 1943)
1948 David Hardie (No. ?, 1947)
1949 – 1950 Ken Carlon
1951 – 1952 George O’Keefe
1953 – 1954 Leigh Glourey
1957 – 1962 Geoff Tunbridge
1963 – 1966 Graham Wise
1967 Adrian Bowden (No. 46, 1966)
1968 Brian ‘Doc’ Roet (No. 18, 1961 – 1965)
1969 – 1972 Peter Sinclair
1973 – 1979 Shane Fitzsimmons
1979 – 1984 N.R. ‘Kelly’ O’Donnell
1985 – 1986 Daryl Bourke
1987 – 1989 Warren Dean
1990 – 1991 Trevor Spencer
1991 – 1995 Kevin Dyson (No. 50 – 1991 also)
1996 – 1997 Alastair Clarkson
1998 - 2010 James McDonald (No. 54, 1997)
2014-2018 Bernie Vince    

Number 24

1912 Jack S. Strong
1913 Norm R. Jordan
1914 Tim Collins (No. 4, 1915)
1915 Roy Franklin
1919 Lou Salvana
1920 William McIntyre
1920 Albert W.D. Fawcett
1922 Vern Moore (No. 34, 1923 – 1924)
1923 Eric Peck (No. 34, 1922)
1924 – 1927 Harry ‘Snowy’ Davie
1928 – 1929 M.J. ‘Jack’ Haw
1930 Colin Jackson
1931 – 1944 Percy Beames
1945 – 1946 Richard Kennedy
1947 – 1949 Frank Hanna
1950 – 1951 Ray Hutchins
1953 William Morrow
1954 – 1961 Ian ‘Tiger’ Ridley
1962 – 1963 Jim Jenkinson
1966 – 1972 Ross Dillon
1973 – 1975 Wayne Delmenico (No. 38, 1972)
1976 – 1977 Graham Osborne (No. 7, 1966 – 1975)
1978 Kelvin Richards (No. 25, 1979)
1979 – 1981 Tony Martyn
1982 Des O’Dwyer (No. 27, 1978; No. 47, 1981)
1983 Steve McCarthy (No. 52, 1982)
1984 – 1989 Bret Bailey
1990 – 1992 Luke Beveridge (No. 48, 1989)
1993 – 1994 Phil Gilbert
1995 – 1996 Clay Sampson
1998 - 2009 Russell Robertson (No. 42, 1997)
2010-2012 Liam Jurrah (No. 48, 2009)
2014-2019 Jay Kennedy Harris    

Number 25

1912 Ted Politz (No. 15, 1913)
1913 Matthew Incigneri (No. 36, 1914)
1914 Cliff Burge
1915 Len Incigneri (No. 28, 1913 – 1914)
1919 Alec Farrow (No. 4, 1920; No. 28, 1921)
1919 Howard Richardson
1920 Claude Bryan (No. 26, 1915)
1921 – 1924 Percy Wilson
1925 James A. Sullivan
1926 Jack Cannan (No. 33, 1925)
1927 Peter Hannan
1929 Carlyle Jones (No. 11, 1925 – 1926)
1931 William Collins
1932 William Earle
1933 Percy Streeter
1934 – 1936 Frank Kelly
1937 Albert Chandler
1938 G.F. 'Ted' Regan
1940 – 1941 Colin McLean
1942 Doug Heywood (No. 26, 1944; No. 8, 1948 – 1951)
1942 Hugh McPherson (No. 16, 1941, 1943 – 1944)
1944 – 1949 Colin McLean (See also 1940 – 1941)
1951 – 1952 Ron McMahon
1953 – 1959 Don Williams (No. 35, 1964 – 1968)
1962 – 1963, 1965 – 1966 Kerry Rattray
1967 – 1968 Geoff Whitton
1968 – 1971 Peter Weekes
1975 Barry Ough
1979 Kelvin Richards (No. 24, 1978)
1981 – 1982 Mark Jackson
1984 – 1985 Xavier Tanner
1986 – 1992 Simon Eishold
1993 – 1994 Jason Norrish
1995 – 1996 Luke Norman
2000 - 2007 Nathan D. Brown (No. 41, 1998)
2009 - 2010 Kyle Cheney
2012 - Tom McDonald (No. 43, 2011)

Number 26

1912 Hugh Odgers (No. 16, 1920)
1912 Hugh Purse (No. ?, 1915)
1913 Charlie Edwards
1914 George Walker (No. 20, 1915, 1920 – 1921; No. 16, 1919; No. 28, 1920)
1915 Claude Bryan (No. 25, 1920)
1919 Cyril Hall
1920 Vern Rowe
1921 Enos J. Thomas
1922 – 1923 Jack Lord Snr (No. 11, 1921)
1924 – 1925 Max Wright
1927 Charles Young
1932 – 1934 Louis Riley
1935 Jack Carr
1936 – 1940 Jack Furniss (No. 14, 1947)
1941 Mac Wilson
1942 Gordon Kramer (No. 10, 1944 – 1945)
1943 Ron C. Hobba
1943 Frank Scanlan (No. 13, 1944; No. 34, 1947 – 1948)
1944 Doug Heywood (No. 25, 1943; No. 8, 1948 – 1951)
1945 Es Downey (No. 36, 1944)
1946 Ralph Shalless (No. 27, 1943)
1948 Colin Cox (No. 9, 1949)
1950 Dave Bedford
1951 – 1955 Noel Clarke
1957 – 1962 Ian Thorogood
1963 Anthony Thiessen
1965 – 1966 Frank Vearing
1968 – 1973 Greg Parke
1974 Graham Scott
1975 – 1976 Gary Guy
1977 John Sparks (No. 40, 1975)
1978 Mark McKeon
1979 Stewart Gull
1980 – 1984 Glenn McLean
1986 – 1987 Joe Rugolo (No. 53, 1985)
1988 – 1991 Jay Viney
1992 Wayne Henwood
1993 – 1996 Greg Doyle
1999 – 2000 Daniel Ward (No. 49, 1998 – 1999; No. 10, 2001 – 2002)
2002 - 2005 Luke Williams
2009 John Meesen
2012-2014 Daniel Nicholson (No. 49, 2011)
2016 - Sam Weideman    

Number 27

1912 Les Abbott
1912 – 1913 Thomas Wellington
1914 William McKenzie (No. 4, 1913, 1919; No. 6, 1912; No. 18, 1915)
1915 Jack Doubleday
1919 Jack Connole (No. 34, 1914)
1920 Harry Tampling
1921 William G. Lyte
1923 – 1924 William Carter
1924 George ‘Nugget’ Simmonds
1925 – 1933 William Tymms
1934 – 1935 Len Smith
1936 Archie Roberts (No. 6, 1932 – 1935)
1937 Stanley Penberthy
1940 – 1941 Gerry Daly (No. 16, 1939)
1942 Frank Deayton (No. 17, 1943)
1943 Ralph Shalless (No. 26, 1946)
1943 Bryan Martin (No. 36, 1942)
1944 Colin Galbraith
1945 Keith Molloy (No. 3, 1943)
1946 Gerry Daly (See 1940 – 1941 above)
1946 – 1948 Ernie O’Rourke (No. 22, 1945)
1949 – 1950 Kenneth Rollason
1951 Robert Rowse
1952 – 1953 Neil Whitaker
1956 – 1962 Dennis Jones
1965 Robin Andrew
1967 John Murnane (No. 49, 1966)
1968 – 1970 John Forster
1972 – 1973 Ross Brewer (No. 6, 1974 – 1978)
1974 Greg Wood
1976 – 1978 Colin Graham (No. 50, 1975)
1978 Des O’Dwyer (No. 47, 1981; No. 24, 1982)
1979 – 1981 Don Whitford
1984 Glenn Boland (No. 45, 1983)
1985 – 1995 J.P. 'Sean' Wight
1996 – 2001 Anthony Ingerson
2003 - 2012 Jared Rivers
2013 Tom Gillies
2014 - 2015 Aidan Riley

Number 28

1912 Clarence P. Abbott
1913 – 1914 Len Incigneri (No. 25, 1915)
1913 Percy Ellingsen
1915 Jack Huntington (No. 3, 1914; No. 19, 1919 – 1920)
1919 Matt Connors
1919 Bob Bodington (No. 18, 1920)
1919 Jack A. ‘Dodger’ Evans (No. 29, 1912; No. 8, 1913, 1915; No. 7, 1914)
1920 George Walker (No. 26, 1914; No. 20, 1915, 1920 – 1921; No. 16, 1919)
1921 Alec Farrow (No. 25, 1919; No. 4, 1920)
1922 Harold Dunbar
1923 – 1928 Hugh Dunbar (No. 29, 1922)
1929 Henry McRae
1930 – 1932 W.T. ‘Webber’ Jackson
1933 Bill W. Robinson
1934 – 1938 Pat McNamara
1939 Leslie Gibbs (No. 31, 1941 – 1942, 1944)
1941 – 1943 Ted Cordner (No. 23, 1946)
1944 – 1945 Percy Taylor
1946 – 1949 Adrian ‘Spud’ Dullard (No. 34, 1940 – 1943; No. 18, 1945)
1950 Greg Lourey (No. 17, 1948)
1951 – 1952 William Smeaton
1953 – 1962 G.J. ‘Terry’ Gleeson
1963 – 1965 David Robbie
1967 – 1970 Derek Feldmann
1973 – 1981 Tony Dullard
1982 – 1987 David Cordner
1988 – 1989 Jamie Duursma
1990 – 1992 John Howat (No. 51, 1989)
1993 – 1996 Glenn Molloy
1997 Nick Pesch
1998 – 2002 Matthew Collins
2004 - 2006 Phil Read
2007 Isaac Weetra
2010-2013 Joel MacDonald    
2015 - Oscar McDonald

Number 29

1912 Jack A. ‘Dodger’ Evans (No. 8, 1913, 1915; No. 7, 1914; No. 28, 1919)
1912 – 1913 Herbert Joolen
1914 Charles S. ‘Buns’ Armstrong (No. 21, 1913)
1915 Alf George (No. 3, 1912; No. 14, 1913)
1919 Charles S. ‘Buns’ Armstrong (see 1914 above)
1919 Frank Cummins
1920 George Garlick
1921 Les Wallace
1922 Hugh Dunbar (No. 28, 1923 – 1928)
1923 Jack Robertson (?, 1924)
1925 – 1932 James Davidson (?, 1924)
1933 Reginald E. Conole (No. 22, 1930 – 1932)
1934 Jack Young
1935 – 1937 John ‘Jock’ Ball
1938 Harden Dean (No. 11, 1936; No. 38, 1943)
1939 – 1942 Jack O’Keefe
1942 Colin Bradley (No. 15, 1943 – 1944)
1943 Jack Minnis (No. ?, 1942; No. 32, 1944)
1944 Ken Levey (No. 31, 1943)
1946 Alfred Copsey
1946 Harry Rowe (No. ?, 1945)
1949 Raymond Jones
1951 – 1952 Kenneth McKaige
1953 – 1957 Anthony Bull
1957 Brian Dunsford
1959 – 1968 Hassa Mann
1969 Steven Arnott
1970 – 1973 Noel Leary
1974 David Murray
1976 Terry Wilkins (No. 38, 1975)
1977 – 1981 Andrew Moir
1982 – 1986 Dale Dickson
1987 Peter Kiel
1987 – 1989 Dean Chiron
1990 – 1994 Andrew Obst (No. 4, 1995 – 1997)
1995 – 1998 Shaun Smith
1999 – 2004 Chris Lamb
2007 – 2011 Michael Newton
2016 - Jayden Hunt

Number 30

1912 – 1913 Mick Maguire (No. 14, 1914)
1913 F. Ellis (also wore No. 31, 1913)
1914 Artie Best
1915 Michael McQuade
1919 Bill Shelton (No. 13, 1920 – 1924; No. 20, 1925)
1920 Bruce Campbell
1921 Pat J. Bourke (No. 32, 1922)
1922 Arthur H. Cambridge
1923 – 1924 Eric Donaldson
1926 R.G. ‘Bert’ Lawrence
1932 Dan Cunningham
1932 Howard Steel (No. 9, 1930 – 1931)
1933 Cliff Tyson
1935 – 1938 Jack Foster
1939 – 1943 Alby Rodda
1945 Norm Wilson (No. 20, 1946)
1946 – 1950 Alby Rodda (See also 1939 – 1943)
1951 – 1960 John Beckwith
1961 John Leahy
1965 – 1966 Kenneth Rowe
1967 Robert Langford (No. 52, 1966)
1969 – 1972 John Letcher
1973 – 1974 Peter Williamson (No. 49, 1971; No. 54, 1972)
1976 – 1983 Peter Hamilton
1984 – 1987 Peter Moore (No. 10, 1983)
1989 – 1990 Danny Seow
1991 – 1992 Paul Bryce
1993 Paul Hopgood
1996 – 1997 David Cockatoo-Collins
2000 - 2007 Simon Godfrey
2009 - 2011 Tom McNamara    
2012-2013 James Sellar    
2015 - Alex Neal-Bullen    

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My all time favourite Melbourne player appears on this list.

Number 31

1913 F. Ellis (also wore No. 30, 1913)
1914 Jack Woolley
1915 A.M. ‘Max’ Hislop
1919 Leo Little (No. 3, 1920)
1920 Reginald Ellis
1921 – 1922 Fred Long
1923 – 1924 Marcus Glasscock
1925 – 1930 Colin Deane
1931 Lew Gough (No. 39, 1930)
1932 – 1934 Jack Power (No. 12, 1930 – 1931)
1936 – 1940 Ronald James Barassi
1941 – 1942 Leslie Gibbs (No. 28, 1939)
1943 Ken Levey (No. 29, 1944)
1944 Leslie Gibbs (See 1941 – 1942 above)
1944 Harry New (No. 20, 1945)
1945 Frank ‘Checker’ Hughes Jnr
1946 – 1950 Stanley Rule
1953 – 1964 Ronald Dale Barassi
1965 – 1968 Ray Groom (No. 15, 1963 – 1964)
1974 – 1975 Bill Barham
1976 Paul Goss
1978 Peter Garratt
1979 Phil Carman
1983 – 1985 Kelvin Templeton
1990 – 1992 Rod Keogh
1996 – 1998 Donald Cockatoo-Collins
2000 - 2009 Paul Wheatley
2010-2011 Tom Scully
2013-2016 Jack Grimes
2018 - Bayley Fritsch

Number 32

1913 Frank Lugton (No. 17, 1914)
1914 Roy Gray
1919 William Grigg
1920 Norm Henderson
1922 Pat J. Bourke (No. 30, 1921)
1926 Eric C. P. Andersen
1928 – 1937 Gordon Ogden
1938 – 1941 Dick Hingston
1942 Robert Stone (No. 7, 1943; No. 36, 1949)
1944 Jack Minnis (?, 1942; No. 29, 1943)
1945 Jim Oppy
1946 Dick Hingston (See also 1938 – 1941)
1946 – 1951 Len Dockett
1953 – 1954 Dale ‘Swede’ Anderson
1955 Fred Webster
1957 Graham Kerr
1960 – 1961 George Milner
1962 – 1969 Barrie Vagg
1970 – 1971 Barry Hodges
1974 Dennis Payne
1975 Kim Smith
1977 – 1978 Robert Walters (No. 16, 1979 – 1981)
1979 – 1980 Bruce Elliott
1981 – 1986 Shane Zantuck
1987 Steven O’Dwyer (No. 1, 1988 – 1991)
1990 – 1991 Steven Clark
1992 – 1993 Andy Goodwin
1994 – 1998 Damien Gaspar
2000 - 2010 Cameron Bruce
2013-2014 Michael Evans (No. 50, 2011)
2016-2018 Tomas Bugg
2019 - Tom Sparrow

Number 33

1914 Alf Williamson
1919 Ivor Warne-Smith (No. 14, 1925 – 1932)
1921 Alex Ogilvy
1922 - 1924 Edgar Dunbar
1925 Jack Cannan (No. 25, 1926)
1926 – 1927 Fred Dick
1930 Geoff Frood
1932 Ron Rutherford
1934 Ray ‘Bunty’ Niven
1935 Frank Halloran
1937 – 1939 Ted Buckley
1940 – 1942 Bernie Neenan
1943 Johnny Dalton
1944 Frank McGrath
1944 Warren Lewis (No. 11, 1941)
1945 Bruce Edge
1945 Ern Rowarth (No. 1, 1946 – 1947)
1947 – 1948 Des Bell (No. 36, 1946)
1948 Alan McGowan (No. 20, 1949 – 1950)
1949 – 1953 Jack Thomson
1954 – 1959 Colin Wilson
1961 – 1965 Bob Miller
1967 – 1977 Gary Hardeman (No. 11, 1981)
1978 Tony May
1979 John Dellamarta
1980 – 1983 Tony Elshaug (No. 50, 1979)
1984 – 1993 Greg Healy
1995 – 2001 Jeff Farmer (No. 8 also 1999)
2003 – 2005 Cameron Hunter
2006 – 2007 Byron Pickett
2008 Stefan Martin
2010 - 2011 Austin Wonaeamirri (No. 39, 2008)
2014 Dom Barry
2017 Jake Spencer (No. 42, 2009 - 2015)
2019 - Oskar Baker

Number 34

1913 Johnny Hassett (No. 1, 1915)
1914 Jack Connole (No. 27, 1919)
1919 Harry Selover
1920 Leo Dobrigh
1922 Eric Peck (No. 24, 1923)
1923 – 1924 Vern Moore (No. 24, 1922)
1926 David Duff
1927 Ernie Shaw
1928 – 1932 Ray Usher (No. 14, 1933)
1933 Jack Bennett (No. 10, 1934 – 1936)
1934 Billy Walsh
1940 – 1943 Adrian ‘Spud’ Dullard (No. 18, 1945;No. 28, 1946 – 1949)
1944 Neil Bencraft
1946 Arnold ‘Buddy’ Byfield
1947 – 1948 Frank Scanlan (No. 26, 1943; No. 13, 1944)
1949 Jim Shaw
1950 Arthur Pound
1951 – 1956 Ralph Lane
1960 – 1964 Len Mann
1966 Robert Russell
1967 – 1971 Brent Jones (No. 53, 1966)
1972 John Clennett (No. 5, 1973 – 1974)
1973 – 1975 Mal Owens
1977 – 1979 Tom Flower
1981 – 1982 Roger Ellingworth (No. 14, 1983 – 1984)
1985 Frank Rugolo (No. 43, 1983 – 1984; No. 17, 1986)
1986 – 1990 Stephen Newport (No. 48, 1985)
1991 Phil Egan
1994 – 1997 Dean Irving
1998 – 2008 Jeff White
2009-2012 Stefan Martin (No. 33, 2008)
2013 Dean Kent (No. 16, 2014-2018)
2019 - Marty Hore

Number 35

1914 Jack Bacquie (No. 11, 1915, 1919 – 1920)
1919 Dave Elliman (No. 11, 1922 – 1924)
1920 Aubrey Neal
1922 – 1931, 35 Dick Taylor
1935 William Sweeney (?, 1934)
1939 Derek Symonds
1940 – 1941 Noel Ellis
1942 Danny Powell
1943 – 1945 Charles Newman
1946 – 1956 Noel McMahen
1957 – 1962 Clyde Laidlaw (No. 16, 1954 – 1956)
1964 – 1968 Don Williams (No. 25, 1953 – 1959)
1970 – 1973 Paul Callery
1974 – 1983 Steven Smith
1984 – 1986 Darryl Cox
1987 Earl Spalding (No. 5, 1988 – 1991)
1992 – 1993 Michael Pickering
1994 Brad Campbell
1995 – 1996 Trent Ormond-Allen
1997 – 2002 Anthony McDonald
2003 - 2007 Ryan Ferguson
2010-2014 Luke Tapscott
2016 Ben Kennedy
2018 - Harrison Petty

Number 36

1913 Eric Dimsey
1914 Matthew Incigneri (No. 25, 1913)
1927 Clarrie Latham (No. 39, 1928)
1935 Joe Kinnear (No. 17, 1932; No. 15, 1933; No. 2, 1934; No. 6, 1936 – 1937)
1939 – 1941 Sid Anderson
1942 Bryan Martin (No. 27, 1943)
1943 Ernie Hart
1944 Es Downey (No. 26, 1945)
1946 Des Bell (No. 33, 1947 – 1948)
1949 Robert Stone (No. 32, 1942; No. 7, 1943)
1950 Jack Mueller (No. 12, 1934 – 1949)
1951, 1954 Keith Robinson
1955 - 1957 Richard Atkinson
1964 - 1965 Peter McLean
1966 Kerry Ryan
1967 – 1968 Ken Osborne (No. 51, 1966)
1972 Col Anderson
1973 Glenn Swan
1975 – 1976 David Kelly
1978 Gary Cooke
1980 – 1981 Peter Maynard
1982 – 1988 Ted Fidge
1990 Robert Hickmott
1992 Grant Williams
1996 – 2002 Andrew Leoncelli
2004 - 2013 Aaron Davey
2015-2019 Jeff Garlett
2020 Kysaiah Pickett

Number 37

1929 – 1931 George Cassidy
1944 Brian Crimmins
1944 Jack Maher (No. 14, 1938 – 1940)
1945 Frank Kennedy (No. 39, 1944; No. 17, 1946 – 1947)
1946 – 1947 James Mitchell (No. 1, 1948)
1949 – 1953 Michael Woods
1957 Terry Mountain
1960 – 1967 Bernie Massey
1968 – 1969 Darryl Schwarz
1971 Bruce Brown
1972 - 1974 John Reid
1975 – 1977 Ted Carroll (No. 42, 1974)
1981 Glenn Giles
1985 – 1986 David Allday
1987 Jim Stynes (No. 11, 1988 – 1998)
1988 – 1991 David Flintoff
1992 – 1997 Andrew Lamprill
1999 Luke Ottens
2002 - 2003 Brad Miller (No. 7, 2004 - 2010)
2006 – 2009 Matthew Warnock (No. 1, 2010 - 2011)
2011-2014 Max Gawn (No. 11, 2015 - )
2015-2016 Aaron vandenBerg (No. 22, 2017 -)
2019 - Kade Chandler

Number 38

1914 William Brunier (No. 21, 1915; No. 22, 1919)
1928 – 1932 Jim Moodie
1943 Harden Dean (No. 11, 1936; No. 29, 1938)
1944 Bill Scanlan (No. 18, 1943; No. 19, 1945 – 1948)
1945 Jack Stock (No. 39, 1944)
1953 – 1956 Ken Melville
1957 – 1959 Peter Brenchley (No. 39, 1958 – wore both 38 and 39 in 1958)
1960 – 1963 Ray Nilsson
1964 – 1965 Jim Leitch
1966 – 1967 Robert Dowsing (No. 2, 1968)
1968 Denis Clark (No. 2, 1966 – 1967; No. 17, 1971 – 1975)
1969 Phil Rhoden (No. 44, 1968)
1972 Wayne Delmenico (No. 24, 1973 – 1975)
1974 Peter Slade
1975 Terry Wilkins (No. 29, 1976)
1976 – 1979 Peter O’Keefe
1980 – 1981 Tony Barnes
1981 Shane Braddy
1985 – 1987 Nigel Kol
1991 Brent Heaver (No. 54, 1990)
1993 David Neitz (No. 9, 1994 - )
1995 Martin Heppell
1996 – 1997 Darren O’Brien
2010 Daniel Hughes 
2011 - 2015 Jeremy Howe
2017 - 2019 Tim Smith 
2020 Mitch Brown

Number 39

1928 Clarrie Latham (No. 36, 1927)
1930 Lew Gough (No. 31, 1931)
1944 Frank Kennedy (No. 37, 1945; No. 17, 1946 – 1947)
1944 Jack Stock (No. 38, 1945)
1953 Maurie Reeves
1954 Tom Magee
1957 Bill Byrne
1958 Peter Brenchley (No. 38, 1957 – 1959, wore both 38 & 39 in 1958)
1961 – 1964 Herb Matthews Jnr
1966 – 1967 Rick Feldmann (No. 40, 1965)
1968 George Lakes (No. 9, 1969 – 1972)
1969 – 1971 Russell Colcott
1972 – 1973 Peter Dilnot
1974 Kevin Moore
1977 Mark Alves
1979 – 1981 Gerard Healy (No. 3, 1982 – 1985)
1983 Trevor Castles
1986 Jeremy Nichols
1987 – 1988 Doug Koop
1990 Stuart Cameron
1998 – 1999 Craig Smoker
2008 Austin Wonaeamirri (No. 33, 2010-2011)
2009 - Neville Jetta

Number 40

1914 Alex Fraser (No. 17, 1915)
1932 W.H. ‘Jack’ Pickford
1953 Robert Constable
1964 Frank Davis (No. 6, 1965 – 1973)
1965 Rick Feldmann (No. 39, 1966 – 1967)
1966 Garry Wynd
1967 John Toll
1968 Ray Biffin (No. 19, 1969 – 1979)
1970 Lloyd Burgmann (No. 10, 1971 – 1972)
1973 John Cunning
1975 John Sparks (No. 26, 1977)
1978 – 1979 Peter Thorne (No. 8, 1984)
1981 – 1983 Paul O’Brien (No. 50, 1980)
1986 – 1987 Tony Campbell (No. 4, 1988 – 1991)
1992 Shane Burgmann
1998 Mark Bradly
2003-2015 Mark Jamar
2019 - Corey Wagner

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Some of the less fashionable numbers - 

Number 41

1953 – 1954 Frank ‘Bluey’ Adams (No. 6, 1955 – 1964)
1968 Euan Campbell
1969 Blair Campbell
1972 Steve Kerley (No. 49, 1971; No. 9, 1973 – 1974)
1976 – 1980 Chris Woodman
1981 – 1982 David McGlashan
1986 – 1987 Steve Turner
1988 – 1995 Peter Rohde
1998 Nathan D. Brown (No. 25, 2000 - 2007)
2001 Darren Jolly (No. 11, 2002 - 2004)
2003 – 2008 Nathan Carroll
2009 Rohan Bail (No. 44 2010 - 2015)
2013 Troy Davis
2014 Alex Georgiou
2015-2017 Mitch White
2019 - Jay Lockhart

Number 42

1966 John W. Hamilton
1973 John Morgan
1974 Ted Carroll (No. 37, 1975 – 1977)
1980 Russell Rowe
1981 Jamie Barham
1985 Brett Hutchinson
1987 – 1988 Brad Sparks
1991 Fabian Francis
1993 Scott Simister
1997 Russell Robertson
1999 - 2004 Peter Walsh
2009-2015 Jake Spencer (No. 33, 2017)

Number 43

1953 Ron McKenzie
1967 Tony Sullivan (No. 4, 1968 – 1979)
1969 David Hayes
1970 Terry Davey
1971 Gordon Lawrie
1973 – 1974 Frank Giampaolo (No. 22, 1975 – 1977)
1975 Ray Smith (No. 7, 1976)
1976 – 1981 Greg Hutchison (No. 52, 1975; No. 18, 1982 – 1984)
1983 – 1984 Frank Rugolo (No. 34, 1985; No. 17, 1986)
1985 – 1986 Paul Payne (No. 19, 1987 -1988)
1986 Len Gandini
1991 - 1992 Andrew Ford
1998 - 2005 Guy Rigoni
2007 - 2008 Jace Bode
2009 - 2010 Jamie Bennell (No. 7, 2011-2012)
2011 Tom McDonald (No. 25, 2012-)
2015 - 2017 James Harmes (No. 4, 2018 -)

Number 44

1962 Alec Ingwersen
1966 Les Harrison
1967 Tom Quinn
1968 Phil Rhoden (No. 38, 1969)
1969 Mark Mitchell
1978 David Code
1980 - 1981 Stephen Bickford
1982 - 1983 Scott Sutcliffe
1984 - 1986 John Fidge
1991 David Schwarz (No. 5, 1992 - 2002)
1992 - 1993 Sean Charles (No. 18, 1994; No. 1, 1995 – 1997)
1995 Adem Yze (No. 13, 1996 - 2008)
1997 - 2000 Alistair Nicholson (No. 8, 2001 – 2002)
2005 - 2006 Shannon Motlop
2008 - 2009 Shane Valenti
2010 - 2015 Rohan Bail (No 41, 2009) 
2017 - Joel Smith

Number 45

1960 Peter Baker
1966 John Quirk
1969 - 1970 Danny Jennings
1971 - 1972 Henry Ritterman (No. 22, 1973)
1973 Greg MacDonald
1979 Peter Giles (No. 4, 1980 - 1987)
1981 Russell Dickson
1983 Glenn Boland (No. 27, 1984)
1984 Graeme Yeats (No. 8, 1985 – 1995)
1986 - 1991 Ricky Jackson
1992 Wayne Lamb
1996 - 1997 Todd McHardy
1999 Troy Longmuir
2000 - 2009 Matthew Whelan
2013-2016 Matt Jones 
2019 Declan Keilty

Number 46

1966 Adrian Bowden (No. 23, 1967)
1967 Max Walker (No. 1, 1968 - 1972)
1969 Ray Sampson
1972 Geoff Harrold
1975 - 1976 Glenn Walley
1982 Peter Tossol (No. 21, 1983 - 1984)
1983 - 1984 Mike Reynolds (No. 21, 1986)
1985 - 1986 Darren Louttit
1990 Matthew Mahoney (No. 10, 1992)
1992 Haydn Robins (No. 15, 1993)
1998 Hayden Lamaro
1999 - 2000 Troy Simmonds (No. 11, 2001)
2009 - 2011 Sam Blease (No. 17, 2012-2015)
2012 Josh Tynan
2013 - 2014 Dean Terlich

Number 47

1978 Paul Thompson
1981 Des O’Dwyer (No. 27, 1978; No. 24, 1982)
1982 - 1986 Alan Jarrott
1989 John Ahern
1999 - 2000 Ben Beams (No. 19, 2001)
2010 - 2011 James Strauss
2012  Tom Couch

Number 48

1965 Robert Gormly
1969 Daryl Powell
1971 Michael John Collins (No. 12, 1972 - 1974)
1977 Brett Marchant
1979 John Wallace
1981 John Tossol
1984 Ross Fisher
1985 Stephen Newport (No. 34, 1986 - 1990)
1989 Luke Beveridge (No. 24, 1990 - 1992)
1991 Darren Cuthbertson (No. 9, 1992 – 1993)
1997 Brent Grgic (No. 4, 1998 – 2001)
1998 Matthew Bishop (No. 18, 1999)
2009 Liam Jurrah (No 24, 2010 - 2012)
2011 - 2015 Jack Fitzpatrick 2017 Corey Maynard (No. 20, 2018)
2019 - Kyle Dunkley

Number 49

1966 John Murnane (No. 27, 1967)
1968 Graeme Aubrey
1971 Peter Williamson (No. 54, 1972; No. 30, 1973 – 1974)
1971 Steve Kerley (No. 41, 1972; No. 9, 1973 – 1974)
1973 Ian McGuinness
1978 Michael Rea
1982 Stuart McKenzie
1992 Brian Stynes
1998 - 1999 Daniel Ward (No. 26, 1999, also 2000; No. 10, 2001 – 2002)
1999 - 2000 Luke Williams (No. 26, 2001 - 2002)
2009 Jordie McKenzie (No. 13, 2010 - 2015)
2011 Daniel Nicholson (No. 26, 2011-2014)
2012 James Magner (No. 22, 2013)

Number 50

1962 Garry Byers (No. 1, 1963)
1966 Ken Jungwirth
1969 Greg Wells (No. 11, 1970 – 1980)
1969 Robert D. McKenzie (No. 10, 1970; No. 2, 1971 – 1972)
1971 – 1972 Shane McSpeerin (No. 20, 1973)
1974 Neil McMullin
1975 Colin Graham (No. 27, 1976 – 1978)
1979 Tony Elshaug No. 33, 1980 – 1983)
1980 Paul O’Brien (No. 40, 1981 – 1983)
1981 Ian Todd
1986 Brett Lovett (No. 17, 1987 – 1997)
1991 Kevin Dyson (No. 23, 1991 – 1995 – wore both 50 and 23 in 1991)
2011 Michael Evans (No. 32, 2013 - 2014)
2013 Mitch Clisby

Number 51

1966 Ken Osborne (No. 36, 1967 – 1968)
1974 Peter Keays (No. 16, 1975 – 1977)
1987 Glenn Lovett (No. 6, 1989 – 1998)
1989 John Howat (No. 28, 1990 – 1992)

Number 52

1966 Robert Langford (No. 30, 1967)
1975 Greg Hutchison (No. 43, 1976 – 1981; No. 18, 1982 – 1984)
1982 Steve McCarthy (No. 24, 1983)
1989 Stephen Tingay (No. 15, 1990 – 1991; No. 2, 1992 – 1999)

Number 53

1966 Brent Jones (No. 34, 1967 – 1971)
1966 Anthony Hirst
1985 Joe Rugolo (No. 26, 1986 – 1987)

Number 54

1972 Peter Williamson (No. 49, 1971; No. 30, 1973 – 1974)
1973 Neil Chamberlain (No. 14, 1974 – 1976)
1974 Mike Power
1981 Trevor Korn
1990 Brent Heaver (No. 38, 1991)
1997 James McDonald (No. 23, 1998 - )

Number 55

Never worn in a senior AFL/VFL match

Number 56

1984 Paul Earley

Number 57

1985 Greg Sizer

Number 58

1984 Michael Howard

Number 59

1986 Andrew Dale

[Demonstone 22,338]

In an interesting quirk, three wearers of number 49 then went on to wear number 26.

I think the only other number to be worn in a senior match is the 67 sported by Jeff Garlett in round 10 of 2017.

[B_Wright 0]

Are you able to help me sort out who has signed this Melbourne Guernsey?   Can I send you a photo to an email account?

[old55 23,441]

On 5/8/2020 at 9:27 PM, Whispering_Jack said:

Number 55

Never worn in a senior AFL/VFL match

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[old55 23,441]

@Demonland - it would be nice to pin this thread.  I'm a jumper numerophile

[Beetle 4,602]

My old man wore number 43 in 1959 but didn't manage a senior game. 

Going to have to break this thread to him gently...

[durango 2,005]

When I was trainer at the MFC the property steward was very cost savy and used to carry lots of extra jumpers in various sizes in the 50-60 range just in case a player had the jumper torn in a tackle so 55 may have been worn during a match but not a permanent change.