Round 8, 1971 · Western Oval (Whitten Oval) · Saturday 22 May 1971, 2:10pm
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Footscray | 33 | 60 | 85 | 119 |
| Essendon | 13 | 39 | 60 | 79 |
Crowd 21,295. Coaches: Ted Whitten and John Birt. Umpires: Brian Marks.
| David Thorpe | 16 | 41 | 33 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Stuart Magee | 23 | 38 | 27 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Gordon Casey | 10 | 25 | 20 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Alan Mannix | 8 | 21 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Bernie Quinlan | 2 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Charles Pagnoccolo | 36 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| George Bisset | 6 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ron McGowan | 22 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Gary Dempsey | 24 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| Gary Merrington | 19 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Ian Salmon | 18 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| Grant Simmons | 29 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| Les Stillman | 28 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| David Darcy | 15 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Harry Skreja | 37 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Barry Round | 14 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Laurie Rippon | 11 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Laurie Sandilands | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Don Brown | 26 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Peter Welsh | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Don Gross | 15 | 26 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| John Williams | 22 | 25 | 24 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Barry Davis | 32 | 22 | 20 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Ian Payne | 3 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| Darryl Gerlach | 17 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Ken Fletcher | 21 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Ray Smith | 35 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Graeme Schultz | 12 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Hugh Delahunty | 40 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Paul Sproule | 26 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Bob Greenwood | 2 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Wayne Headlam | 14 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| Peter Daniel | 28 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Don McKenzie | 24 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 6 |
| Alan Noonan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Bruce Dodson | 41 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Charlie Payne | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Geoff Blethyn | 11 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Sandy Talbot | 27 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Ian Anderson | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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170 meetings: Footscray 72, Essendon 96, 2 drawn.
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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