Team by team goalless at half time

Following on from my previous post, I will list the number of cases each team has been goalless at half time over four equal-length periods:

Scores Goalless at Half Time, 1897-2011
	1897-1924	1925-1953	1954-1982	1983-2011	TOTAL
Adelaide				1	1
Brisbane				2	2
Carlton	29	0	1	4	34
Collingwood	12	2	2	1	17
Essendon	12	1	2	1	16
Fitzroy	11	2	4	2	19
Footscray/Western Bulldogs		2	4	1	7
Fremantle				1	1
Geelong	12	0	2	0	14
Hawthorn		6	1	1	8
Melbourne	16	1	0	4	21
North Melbourne		8	2	0	10
Port Adelaide				0	0
Richmond	4	2	6	1	13
St. Kilda	32	3	3	2	40
Sydney/South Melbourne	18	2	5	3	28
University	4				4
West Coast				2	2
TOTAL	150	29	32	26	237

Some notes on this table:

1. Carlton were not goalless at half time between Round 16, 1924 (when they were scoreless at half time against South Melbourne) and Round 3, 1968 (when both they and Essendon were goalless at half time)
• The next time after their scoreless first half in 1924 Carlton were goalless at half time with their opponents having goaled was Round 11, 1991 at Footscray
2. The last time Geelong were goalless at half time was Round 12, 1977 v Carlton at Princes Park. It was the first match since 1927 where both teams scored three or fewer goals and the second since 1911.

   Round 12, 1977
   Carlton	1-4 (10)	1-7 (13)	3-11 (29)	3-13 (31)
   Geelong	0-3 (3)	0-4 (4)	0-6 (6)	2-12 (24)

3. The only other times since 1920 Geelong were goalless at half time they kicked the equal-second and fourth-highest scores by a team goalless at the long interval (see previous page)
4. The last time North Melbourne were goalless at half time was Round 12, 1979 v Essendon at Windy Hill:

   Round 12, 1979
   Essendon	3-5 (23)	10-8 (68)	13-9 (87)	15-11 (101)
   North Melbourne	0-3 (3)	0-7 (7)	1-12 (18)	6-18 (54)

5. In the last two times Essendon were goalless at half time their opponents also were. The last time Essendon were goalless at half time and had conceded a goal was in 1956 against Melbourne. At the time Melbourne had won fourteen on end and Essendon were seventh.

   Round 9, 1956
   Melbourne	2-3 (15)	9-10 (64)	13-14 (92)	15-17 (107)
   Essendon	0-4 (4)	0-7 (7)	1-11 (17)	4-15 (39)

Opponents Goalless at Half Time, 1897-2011
	1897-1924	1925-1953	1954-1982	1983-2011	TOTAL
Adelaide				3	3
Brisbane				3	3
Carlton	17	1	6	4	28
Collingwood	19	3	2	0	24
Essendon	16	1	4	2	23
Fitzroy	23	3	2	0	28
Footscray/Western Bulldogs		4	1	4	9
Fremantle				1	1
Geelong	23	4	4	2	33
Hawthorn		0	5	0	5
Melbourne	13	4	2	1	20
North Melbourne		1	1	2	4
Port Adelaide				2	2
Richmond	4	6	2	0	12
St. Kilda	7	0	3	1	11
Sydney/South Melbourne	26	2	0	0	28
University	2				2
West Coast				1	1
TOTAL	150	29	32	26	237

Some notable features from this table are:

1. The last time South Melbourne/Sydney held an opponent goalless up to half time was on a waterlogged Western Oval in Round 9 of 1953, in probably their best win during their long finals drought of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
2. The last time Richmond held an opponent goalless to half time was in Round 10 of 1973, in a notable game that saw the debut of Graham Teasdale, later to become famous with the Tigers’ opponents South Melbourne, who at the time had lost 26 in a row.
3. The last time Collingwood held an opponent goalless to half time was in Round 9 of 1967, in a match more famous for Alex Ruskuclić kicking all of Fitzroy’s four goals.
4. The three cases between 1924 and 1994 of St. Kilda holding an opponent goalless to half time all occurred in 1961 - against Richmond (goalless for the full game), Footscray and South Melbourne.
5. Adelaide’s feat of holding three opponents goalless to half-time in 2009 was not equalled between 1962 and 2008. The four scores goalless at half time in 2009 was also the most since 1961.
6. The only times North Melbourne have held an opponent goalless to half time are:
1. Round 16, 1943 v Hawthorn
2. Round 18, 1965 v Richmond
3. Round 11, 1989 v Fitzroy
4. Round 19, 2004 v Adelaide
7. The five times Hawthorn held an opponent goalless to half time occurred in a span of twenty years - in 1956 twice, 1964, 1965 and 1975.
8. Hawthorn in 1965 and Fitzroy in 1936 are the only wooden spooners since 1919 to hold an opponent goalless to half time.