Round 8, 1956 · Windy Hill · Monday 4 June 1956, 2:15pm
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essendon | 26 | 42 | 54 | 83 |
| Footscray | 29 | 47 | 91 | 107 |
Crowd 31,500. Coaches: Dick Reynolds and Charlie Sutton. Umpires: Bill Barbour.
| Morton Diston | 12 | 0 |
| Doug Dench | 6 | 0 |
| Fred Lynch | 4 | 0 |
| Jack Knowles | 21 | 0 |
| Fred Gallagher | 13 | 0 |
| Robert Fox | 24 | 0 |
| Reg Burgess | 18 | 0 |
| Greg Sewell | 9 | 0 |
| Roy McConnell | 25 | 0 |
| Geoff Leek | 30 | 0 |
| Bill Hutchison | 7 | 0 |
| Jim Heenan | 14 | 0 |
| Jack Harrington | 23 | 0 |
| John Gill | 3 | 0 |
| Doug Bigelow | 19 | 0 |
| Max Nixon | 17 | 1 |
| Jack Clarke | 1 | 1 |
| Hugh Mitchell | 31 | 2 |
| Graham Willey | 16 | 4 |
| Mal Pascoe | 34 | 4 |
| Herb Henderson | 25 | 0 |
| Doug Reynolds | 28 | 0 |
| Ron Porta | 21 | 0 |
| Wally Donald | 22 | 0 |
| Brian Gilmore | 34 | 0 |
| John Westacott | 10 | 0 |
| Arthur Edwards | 11 | 0 |
| Peter Box | 5 | 0 |
| Don Rawson | 33 | 0 |
| Byron Guthrie (debut) | 36 | 0 |
| Roger Duffy | 7 | 0 |
| Kevin White | 38 | 0 |
| Ron Stockman | 17 | 0 |
| Noel Dickson | 18 | 1 |
| Don Ross | 9 | 1 |
| Lionel Ryan | 31 | 1 |
| Jack Collins | 2 | 2 |
| John Kerr | 1 | 2 |
| Ted Whitten | 3 | 3 |
| Max Cross | 8 | 4 |
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170 meetings: Essendon 96, Footscray 72, 2 drawn.
Western Bulldogs by 34 · crowd 38,786
Western Bulldogs by 93 · crowd 29,367
Western Bulldogs by 91 · crowd 47,266
Essendon by 29 · crowd 50,144
Western Bulldogs by 41 · crowd 43,634
Western Bulldogs by 32 · crowd 33,677