Record Highest Score

[mianfei]

Some points about that match.

Templeton kicked 9 behinds in that game and two out bounds. Thats at least 26 kicks from full forward and a VFL/AFL record amount of scoring shots with 24.

He and Dunstan combined to kick 22 goals between them. I cant find any higher total for two players in a game.

Templeton was struggling with cramps at 3/4 time. MacKenzie almost took him off.

The record of Templeton and Dunstan is actually shared with Doug Strang and Jack Titus for Richmond against North Melbourne in Round 2, of 1931. Strange kicked 14.2 and Jack Titus kicked eight - ironically Titus died in 1978!

Of course, what makes the Footscray pair’s feat far more amazing is that Dunstan was an on-baller who never kicked more than four goals in any other match! It surprises me that after a similarly amazing game five years later to the round, Gary Dempsey did not recall (or talk about) Dunstan kicking seven when Matt Rendell kicked eight by becoming a loose man on the forward line.

 

[timtamWB]

Necro bump!

 

[Fossie 32]

I started this under my original name. Ended up tracking down a dvd of the last quarter from ABC TV

 

[mianfei]

I started this under my original name. Ended up tracking down a dvd of the last quarter from ABC TV

I’ve actually seen the last quarter, and have heard someone has the full game but does not know how to extract or copy it or whether the quality would be anything acceptable.

 

[Fossie 32]

I’ve actually seen the last quarter, and have heard someone has the full game but does not know how to extract or copy it or whether the quality would be anything acceptable.

Oh wow, are you in contact with them, that would be awesome. Local photo shop should be able to transfer it.

 

[Spiritof82]

There's pic of the team in the Unleashed book. Eleven of them had mo's!
Maybe it was Jack Di Natale. He had big hair - not quite an afro?

The team was: M Kelly, B Reid, K Templeton, P Welsh, I Low, G Scanlon,
R Murrie, J Reid, I Dunstan, R Abbey, A Smedts, D Hawkins, G Wheeler,
J Di Natale, A Stoneham, G Jennings [vc], E Whitten, jnr, T Wheeler, S Power, G Dempsey [captain]. Coach D McKenzie.

It was round 13, July 1, 1978 at the Western Oval.

Score: Footscray 33-15 [213] def. St. Kilda 16-10 [106]

Goals: Templeton 15, Dunstan 7, Hawkins 3, Whitten2, Scanlon 2, Low, Stoneham, Kelly, Dempsey

Best players: Templeton, Dunstan, Stoneham, J Reid, Di Natale, Whitten, Low, Hawkins

Yep was Di Natale, #34, family ran (or still does) a real estate agency in Footscray. Still have the footy record for this game at home, every goal and point filled in.

 

[mianfei]

Oh wow, are you in contact with them, that would be awesome. Local photo shop should be able to transfer it.

The person’s name is “AllEyezOnM3e” and he was quite blunt that he would not do it for me even though I said I would pay a large, if unquoted, sum of money, though this was in March of 2010 and I do not know what would have happened to the tape since.

 

[Fossie 32]

The person’s name is “AllEyezOnM3e” and he was quite blunt that he would not do it for me even though I said I would pay a large, if unquoted, sum of money, though this was in March of 2010 and I do not know what would have happened to the tape since.

Ta, that's a shame. Here is his youtube clip. 4 mins or so of the game.

 

[The Original Swooper]

It was what happened after the game that made it a legendary day & night & following morning. I do recall telling the story here a few years ago, but cannot find it. It involved lots of beer, a bottle of port, vodka, an aspiring actress, Stardust nightclub, a Valiant Charger, Daylesford and a potatoe truck.

 

[Chicago1]

This thread makes me feel young again. The event itself occurred when I was 26. This thread was started when I was 49. I was 61 last week.

 

[hoianbulldog]

If it hadn't been for KT I would never have made it onto an VFL ground during the coarse of a game. Did it a Vic park as well when he got 100.

 

[Fossie 32]

It was what happened after the game that made it a legendary day & night & following morning. I do recall telling the story here a few years ago, but cannot find it. It involved lots of beer, a bottle of port, vodka, an aspiring actress, Stardust nightclub, a Valiant Charger, Daylesford and a potatoe truck.

Tell us again OS

 

[The Original Swooper]

Tell us again OS

For some reason St.Albans U/17's had a bye, so we all trundled off to the WO. I made a ludicrous claim I'd consume a tinnie for every goal we kicked. I began before the magoos. By the time the seniors ran out, I had a 7 goal lead. Was tracking well during 1st half, but showing signs of a potential fade out. I know we kicked shitloads in the last stanza, (12 I think!), and I eventually was defeated by a good 10 goals. Managed to get back to mates car for the drive back. Found a bottle of half full Hanwood Port rolling around the back of the EJ Holden. Swig swig..... gone!! At the St. Albans pub, began drinking Vodka with a dash of peppermint. Spied via my beer goggles a blonde sitting with her chubby friend. 7' tall & bullet proof I went into chat mode. Soon after, a mate who was a bar tender told me the chubby one was his gf & they were heading into town after he knocked off. I agreed to go. I found myself in the back of his Valiant Charger with Blondie, trundling towards the city, & the famed Stardust nightclub in Russell street. By the time we got there I was occupied in a session of amateur tongue wrestling. The booze had also taken it's toll. I declined going in, as I knew I couldn't walk to the entrance, so convinced blondie to stay with me. Somewhere between 3rd & home bases I was interrupted by a solid bang bang bang on the car window. It was Plod. After tugging jeans up to a respectable level, and explaining the car was not mine, Lance (mate) re=appeared with Miss Piggy. This is where it goes foggy. The next thing I recall is waking up in a strange bed. To my right was the back of a very hot body, with a mane of blonde hair cascading down to her cute backside. Taking a moment to enjoy the view and congratulate myself for doing something legendary despite having no recollection. Well, as most guys know, the morning after has a certain primal biological reaction, so as I cuddled up to my conquest anticipating utilising my morning glory, I grabbed her shoulder to roll her from her side to her back. Uh Oh Knew it was too good to be true. Whilst the body was smokin' the face was ummm... well everyone has the right to be ugly but this lass was abusing the privilege. But now I had my arm pinned under her neck, (yes, the famed Dingo position). Slowly, clinically I managed to extricate my arm from the entrapment, managing not to wake her. I had my clobber back on in seconds and found the front door. An old man was strolling past walking his dog. I asked him where I was. He gave me a street name but I requested a suburb to accompany his info. I got a quizzical look from the codger, "You're in Daylesford mate". WTF ???? Well I found my way to the highway, thumbed a lift, got a ride in a potato truck, (in the back with the spuds!!), where I proceeded to fall asleep atop the sacks. The driver woke me up on the corner of Ballarat Road & Station Rd Deer Park, where I got out, and then walked home to St.Albans I got home just after 9am, and I stopped, thought wow, what a lot to cram into 24hours.... then went to bed.

 

[Fossie 32]

Haha great story The Original Swooper, with the Daylesford connection was visualising an alternative ending
So are you saying you skulled 7 cans before the game and 33 being one for each goal, then went on to drink a heap more?

Fair adventure for an under 17 footballer!

 

[The Original Swooper]

No. My tally for the day was 23 (about 10am onwards), hence my 10 goal loss. Remember in those days u could take a slab into the ground. Yeah, the St Albans boys knew how to drink and fight. Doug Hawkins makes references to a few of my tea mates in his book

 

[hoianbulldog]

No. My tally for the day was 23 (about 10am onwards), hence my 10 goal loss. Remember in those days u could take a slab into the ground. Yeah, the St Albans boys knew how to drink and fight. Doug Hawkins makes references to a few of my tea mates in his book

Great story.

When you said you were with St Albans under 17's I just assumed that you would have been a 21 yo at the time. They weren't great at checking birth certificates from what i've heard.

 

[Bulldog Banana]

I was at that game, all of 8 years old.
It is my greatest memory of the Western Oval. I would love to have a digital copy of that game.
On the youtube video, its funny to see players like Bruce Reid there, and imagining what could've been if the father/son rule hadnt been changed. He was my PE teacher at the time.
I also noticed Russell Tweedale playing for the saints, he ended up coming over to us a year or two later.
It looked like Trevor Barker was opposed to KT during that last quarter onslaught.
Loved Mocca Dunstan's 7 goals, we were going ape on the members wing over that. Hows the tap from Dempsey straight down Mocca's throat and then pumps the ball straight to KT at full forward....awesome!
I remember going one of the pubs on the Western Hwy after the game and my parents buy me a bag of chips and a soft drink to celebrate...(i was only 8 after all )

 

[The Original Swooper]

Great story.

When you said you were with St Albans under 17's I just assumed that you would have been a 21 yo at the time. They weren't great at checking birth certificates from what i've heard.

LOL So true. We were legit, (we had plenty of players), but Kingsville & Albion were suss. KFC players lobbed up in cars!!

 

[Fossie 32]

I was at that game, all of 8 years old.
It is my greatest memory of the Western Oval. I would love to have a digital copy of that game.

If anyone wants a copy of the last quarter let me know.

 

[go you pups]

My old man was there drinking cans at the Barkly St end (sighs) that would've been great..... At least I hope I don't have to wait as long as he might have to to see us win a flag though (hopefully).

 

[childeric]

How often have we said that ?


Great story local. As I said in a previous post..... sometimes there are advantages to "old" age! I'm just glad my footy life began in the '70s when football was untarnished by the modern world's "professionalism"! Nothing will ever beat standing in the outer at the Whitten Oval on a cold, wet, windswept July Saturday afternoon eating hot chips with vinegar! Don't let me get started on this again..........

Homespun suburban goodness

One day in 1985 at the WO v. Swans I was queuing up for hot chips.

Behind me was a small blonde in a fur coat

It was Leanne Edelsten, wife of Swans boss Geoffrey Edelsten

Geoff had sent her down to stand in line with the plebs

 

[Captain Sensible]

LOL So true. We were legit, (we had plenty of players), but Kingsville & Albion were suss. KFC players lobbed up in cars!!

What are you implying? Us Kingy boys ate our wheatbix is all.

 

[Captain Sensible]

The record of Templeton and Dunstan is actually shared with Doug Strang and Jack Titus for Richmond against North Melbourne in Round 2, of 1931. Strange kicked 14.2 and Jack Titus kicked eight - ironically Titus died in 1978!

Cheers for that. If I remember my history correctly that would have been the day Jack
Dyer played his first game for Richmond.

 

[The Original Swooper]

What are you implying? Us Kingy boys ate our wheatbix is all.

But we had Leno Giradi. Nobody in the comp would dare touch him Until a Kingy boy had a crack at him at the end of a game (D'Olivera or similar). Lasted 30 seconds. We were accused so often re his age. The kid was a behemouth. Never had the desire to go further. Dogs were sniffing around him from about age 13. The Hawk refers to him in his book.

 

[Captain Sensible]

But we had Leno Giradi. Nobody in the comp would dare touch him Until a Kingy boy had a crack at him at the end of a game (D'Olivera or similar). Lasted 30 seconds. We were accused so often re his age. The kid was a behemouth. Never had the desire to go further. Dogs were sniffing around him from about age 13. The Hawk refers to him in his book.

D'altera maybe?