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FD Chapman — Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club career — Morrie

Season by season

Season	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Overs	Wkts	Best	Ct
1921-22	6	7	0	56	19	8.00	2	0	0/14	6
1923-24	11	11	1	236	64	23.60	36	8	3/28	5
1924-25	9	8	3	135	45*	27.00	83.6 (8)	24	5/31	2
1925-26	11	12	2	299	49	29.90	67	18	5/40	1
1926-27	11	12	0	269	69	22.42	31.5	10	3/35
1927-28	8	11	1	208	70	20.80	4 (8)	10	3/40	7
1928-29	11	10	1	407	228*	45.22	38 (8)	19	4/46	4
1929-30	14	14	1	582	174	44.77	105.3 (8)	40	5/30	7
1930-31	14	14	2	138	37	11.50	79 (8)	25	5/21	4
1931-32	14	15	3	288	68*	24.00	57 (8)	18	3/35	10
1932-33	11	11	0	182	53	16.55	27 (8)	13	6/20	6
1933-34	12	11	2	112	27*	12.44	55.5	35	6/32	4
1934-35	12	11	1	173	47	17.30	38 (8)	28	5/38	10
1935-36	14	15	0	161	26	10.73	95.6 (8)	19	3/29	12
1936-37	4	2	1	7	5	7.00	29.3 (8)	5	4/56	3
Career	162	164	18	3,253	228*	22.28	192.4 + 557.2 (8-ball)	272	6/20	81

Milestones

DebutFirst matchv Richmond, 1921-22
First fifty59*v St Kilda, 1923-24
First hundred228*v Collingwood, 1928-29
First five-for5/31v Richmond, 1924-25
Highest score228*v Collingwood, 1928-29
Best bowling6/20v Prahran, 1932-33
Last matchMatch 162v Collingwood, 1936-37

Runs by season

Every innings, in order

Against each club

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Richmond	15	128	37*	9.85			22	21.41	5/31	1
Essendon	14	410	77	27.33	3		30	15.57	4/8
Melbourne	14	291	49	19.40			25	22.92	5/45	1
Melbourne University	14	206	37*	17.17			26	14.27	4/46
Northcote	13	362	174	30.17		1	8	43.25	2/33
Camberwell Magpies	13	340	228*	37.78		1	13	36.23	3/53
Prahran	13	194	53	16.17	1		34	15.74	6/20	2
Carlton	13	155	32	22.14			17	30.94	5/41	1
St Kilda	12	306	68*	23.54	2		22	17.36	5/30	1
Casey South Melbourne	12	262	70	20.15	2		25	20.00	5/38	2
Greenvale Kanagaroos	12	143	35	11.92			21	14.95	5/21	1
Kingston Hawthorn	11	355	84	35.50	2		20	12.70	6/32	1
VCA Colts	6	101	86	33.67	1		9	21.44	3/36

Splits

By batting position

Pos	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
1	9	1	311	228*	38.88		1	1
2	9	1	204	59*	25.50	2
3	30	0	736	174	24.53	1	1
4	26	2	552	86	23.00	4		2
5	11	2	195	64	21.67	1
6	20	1	308	69	16.21	1
7	30	4	545

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1921-22 to 1936-37: 7th of 81 for runs, 4th of 41 for wickets, 5th of 91 for matches, 12th of 16 for hundreds, 5th of 71 for catches, 17th of 34 for batting average.

Under Fitzroy: 17th of 321 for runs, 9th of 172 for wickets, 9th of 345 for matches, 22nd of 50 for hundreds, 10th of 279 for catches, 39th of 126 for batting average.

Played like…

HAE Shillinglaw

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Season	Opponent	Batting	Bowling
1921-22	Richmond	2	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1921-22	Essendon	13	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1921-22	University	0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1921-22	Melbourne	3 & 19	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1921-22	St Kilda	19	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1921-22	Collingwood	0	0/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	4	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	North Melbourne	12	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	Carlton	dnb	3/28	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	St Kilda	16 & 59*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	Collingwood	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	South Melbourne	8	1/23	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	Richmond	3	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	Essendon	64	3/79	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	Prahran	9 & 5	1/28 & 0/8	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	Northcote	34	0/8	Something wrong? Tell us
1923-24	Melbourne	22	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1924-25	Northcote	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1924-25	North Melbourne	8	3/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1924-25	Carlton	15*	1/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1924-25	Collingwood	6	3/53	Something wrong? Tell us
1924-25	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	23*	1/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1924-25	Richmond	0	5/31	Something wrong? Tell us
1924-25	Essendon	45*	3/85	Something wrong? Tell us
1924-25	Prahran	6	5/65	Something wrong? Tell us
1924-25	University	32	3/27	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	Collingwood	16	0/31	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	Carlton	32	0/21	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	University	37*	0/21	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	Prahran	15*	2/37	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	Melbourne	49	2/41	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	South Melbourne	12	5/40	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	St Kilda	38	1/39	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	Essendon	22	3/49	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	North Melbourne	10	2/49	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	Northcote	22	1/11	Something wrong? Tell us
1925-26	St Kilda	30 & 16	2/59	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	St Kilda	27	1/32	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	Prahran	5	1/13	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	University	32	0/42	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	69	3/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	Melbourne	44	0/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	Richmond	3	0/2	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	Carlton	17	2/51	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	Collingwood	23	0/26	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	Northcote	3	1/39	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	North Melbourne	35	0/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1926-27	Essendon	9 & 2	1/4 & 1/22	Something wrong? Tell us
1927-28	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	10 & 36	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1927-28	Essendon	1 & 12	1/13	Something wrong? Tell us
1927-28	Melbourne	25	1/17	Something wrong? Tell us
1927-28	Richmond	20	0/34	Something wrong? Tell us
1927-28	University	14 & 1*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1927-28	South Melbourne	70	3/59	Something wrong? Tell us
1927-28	Northcote	12	2/33	Something wrong? Tell us
1927-28	Prahran	7	3/40	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	Carlton	dnb	0/49	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	Essendon	69	1/22	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	Prahran	5	3/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	Collingwood	228*	3/54	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	Melbourne	11	0/88	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	Northcote	7	0/13	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	Richmond	21	4/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	St Kilda	7	3/41	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	South Melbourne	13	1/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	Melbourne	16	1/56	Something wrong? Tell us
1928-29	University	30	3/33	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	Carlton	0	5/41	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	Prahran	19	3/26 & 1/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	Melbourne	25	3/59	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	Collingwood	4	2/37	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	North Melbourne	12	4/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	Richmond	dnb	0/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	84	3/60	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	South Melbourne	6 & 60*	2/100	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	Essendon	77	4/44	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	University	16	3/34	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	St Kilda	16	5/30 & 0/7	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	VCA Colts	86	1/55	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	Northcote	174	0/25	Something wrong? Tell us
1929-30	St Kilda	3	4/67	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	Melbourne	11	4/58	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	Northcote	12	0/42	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	South Melbourne	16 & 0	0/15	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	VCA Colts	0*	3/40	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	Collingwood	dnb	0/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	37	4/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	Richmond	8	0/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	Essendon	2	3/31	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	North Melbourne	12	5/21	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	Carlton	6	2/53	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	Prahran	3	1/33	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	University	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	Richmond	0 & 10*	3/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1930-31	South Melbourne	21	0/34	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	St Kilda	68*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	Northcote	40	1/29 & 0/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	31	1/25	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	VCA Colts	dnb	3/36	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	Collingwood	2	0/89	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	South Melbourne	8	1/37	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	Prahran	19*	1/58	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	University	11	3/36	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	North Melbourne	0 & 20	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	Carlton	dnb	3/54	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	Richmond	37*	2/59	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	Essendon	41	3/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	University	3 & 1	0/15	Something wrong? Tell us
1931-32	St Kilda	3 & 4	0/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	Essendon	12	2/22	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	Richmond	11	0/11	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	North Melbourne	10	0/25	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	University	5	2/27	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	Prahran	53	6/20 & 2/32	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	South Melbourne	5	0/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	Collingwood	17	0/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	VCA Colts	10	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	13	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	Northcote	38	1/9	Something wrong? Tell us
1932-33	Melbourne	8	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	Essendon	5	4/8	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	Richmond	2	2/20 & 1/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	Carlton	27*	0/33	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	North Melbourne	dnb	1/57	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	University	17	4/46 & 1/0	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	Prahran	23	3/75	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	South Melbourne	dnb	3/56	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	VCA Colts	5	1/22 & 0/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	19*	6/32	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	Northcote	6 & 0	1/37	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	Melbourne	8	5/45	Something wrong? Tell us
1933-34	St Kilda	0	3/48	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Melbourne	dnb	1/11	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Northcote	dnb	0/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	0 & 17*	2/25	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Collingwood	25	1/21 & 2/9	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	South Melbourne	15 & 2	4/33 & 5/38	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Prahran	5	1/11	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Carlton	24	1/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Richmond	4	2/65	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	North Melbourne	2	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Essendon	32	1/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	University	dnb	3/29 & 1/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Melbourne	47	4/79	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	St Kilda	0	3/44 & 0/1	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	Northcote	14	1/68	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	12	0/27	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	VCA Colts	dnb	1/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	Collingwood	19	2/64	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	South Melbourne	26	0/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	Prahran	20	1/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	University	7	3/43	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	North Melbourne	2 & 18	2/28	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	Carlton	20	0/81	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	Richmond	2	2/49	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	Essendon	4	0/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	Carlton	14	0/31	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	Melbourne	0 & 3	3/29 & 1/44	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	Richmond	5	1/49	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	Carlton	dnb	0/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	North Melbourne	2*	4/56	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	Collingwood	dnb	0/8	Something wrong? Tell us

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
Top order (1–3)	48	2	1,251	228*	27.20	3	2	1
Middle order (4–7)	87	9	1,600	86	20.51	8		8
Lower order (8–11)	29	7	402	49	18.27			3

In wins and losses

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
In wins	76	11	1,661	228*	25.55	3	2	5
In losses	53	5	794	64	16.54	3		6
In draws	32	2	752	86	25.07	5		1
In ties	3	0	46	37	15.33

	M	Wkts	Avg	Wkts / match
In wins	66	139	16.64	2.1
In losses	38	69	22.77	1.8
In draws	34	54	25.65	1.6
In ties	3	10	13.40	3.3

Scored 50+: the side won 5 of 13 (38%), lost 3.
Took 5+ in an innings: the side won 8 of 10 (80%), lost 1.
Every other match: the side won 62 of 140 (44%), lost 39.

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
Batting first	71	7	1,247	86	19.48	4		7
Batting second	74	6	1,721	228*	25.31	5	2	3
Second innings of the match	19	5	285	60*	20.36	2		2

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
As captain	60	3	954	69	16.74	1		5
As wicketkeeper	2	0	23	13	11.50
Otherwise	102	15	2,276	228*	26.16	10	2	7

By ground

Ground	M	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg	Best
Fitzroy Cricket Ground	84	78	1,640	86	23.10	158	17.08	6/20
Richmond Cricket Ground	9	11	85	37*	9.44	7	33.86	3/46
Carlton Cricket Ground	9	6	103	27*	25.75	9	36.56	3/28
Bill Lawry Oval, Northcote	8	8	278	174	34.75	4	58.25	1/29
Melbourne Cricket Ground	7	9	150	49	16.67	10	20.30	3/29
Toorak Park	7	8	108	23	15.43	18	19.06	5/65
St Kilda Cricket Ground	6	7	102	30	14.57	13	19.00	4/67
South Melbourne Cricket Ground	5	8	116	60*	16.57	16	15.25	5/38
Glenferrie Oval	5	7	136	37	27.20	7	10.71	4/30
North Melbourne Cricket Ground	5	6	52	20	8.67	5	26.80	2/28
Victoria Park	5	5	269	228*	67.25	7	39.29	3/54
University Oval	5	4	90	37*	30.00	5	24.80	3/34
Essendon Cricket Ground	4	5	92	45*	23.00	8	19.75	3/31
Albert Ground	3	2	32	21	16.00	5	20.60	4/58

The shape of the career

Season by season

Runs, up Wickets, downPremiership Honour in his name Season away

1924-25: 1st XI Bowling · 1930-31: premiership · 1932-33: 1st XI Bowling · 1933-34: 1st XI Bowling

The arc

Fred Chapman's best season with the bat was 1929-30: 582 runs from 14 innings at 44.77. The best ten-innings patch came in 1929-30: 535 runs at 59.44. The leanest, 1935-36 to 1936-37: 75 runs at 7.50.

Batting average over the last ten innings, at each innings of the career.

Milestones

Milestone	When	Match
First fifty59*	1 Dec 1923	v St Kilda, 1923-24
First five-for5/31	24 Jan 1925	v Richmond, 1924-25
50th wicket2/59 took him to 50	3 Apr 1926	v St Kilda, 1925-26
1,000th run10 took him to 1,005	22 Oct 1927	v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1927-28
50th match1 & 12, 1/13	1 Nov 1927	v Essendon, 1927-28
First hundred228*	1 Dec 1928	v Collingwood, 1928-29

Streaks

Consecutive scores of 25 or more: 3 innings: from v University, 1926-27 to v Melbourne, 1926-27 · first · last
Consecutive matches played: 53 matches: from v Prahran, 1928-29 to v Richmond, 1932-33 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 10 matches: from v Prahran, 1925-26 to v Prahran, 1926-27 · first · last
Longest spell without a wicket: 3 matches bowled in: from v Collingwood, 1925-26 to v University, 1925-26 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 5 innings: from v Northcote, 1933-34 to v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1934-35 · first · last

Best innings

Score	Match	Result
228*	v Collingwood, 1928-29	Won
174	v Northcote, 1929-30	Won
86	v VCA Colts, 1929-30	Drawn
84	v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1929-30	Won
77	v Essendon, 1929-30	Drawn

Best bowling

More splits

Batting position over the years

Moved about the order across 15 seasons: at 7th in 4, at 3rd in 3, at 4th in 3, opened in 2, at 8th in 2, at 6th in 1.

Season	Usual spot	Inn	Avg
1921-22	7	7	8.00
1923-24	2	11	23.60
1924-25	6	8	27.00
1925-26	3	12	29.90
1926-27	3	12	22.42
1927-28	4	11	20.80
1928-29	3	10	45.22
1929-30

Home and away

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home	84	78	7	1,640	86	23.10	158	17.08
Away	78	86	11	1,613	228*	21.51	114	23.73

Home taken as the ground the club played at most in each season: Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Schramms Reserve.

By day

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Saturday	141	141	16	2,928	228*	23.42	238	19.97
Weekday	21	23	2	325	77	15.48	34	19.12

Month by month

Month	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Oct	27	25	2	421	69	18.30	35	19.06
Nov	30	27	5	441	69	20.05	44	22.14
Dec	17	18	4	588	228*	42.00	33	15.18
Jan	33	34	4	667	84	22.23	54	22.46
Feb	24	26	2	450	64	18.75	50	18.14
Mar	23	24	0	562	174

Finals

11Finals played

201Runs · avg 13.40

21Wickets

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home and away	151	148	17	3,052	228*	23.30	251	19.51
Finals	11	16	1	201	47	13.40	21	24.14

Favourite victims

HH Alexander × 4
HJ Richardson × 4
AC Jackson × 3
AL Hassett × 3
BJJ Davie × 3
C Hardy × 3
GH Newstead × 3
GM Eaton × 3

Fielding

Season	M	Ct	St
1921-22	6	6
1923-24	11	5
1924-25	9	6	1
1925-26	11	1
1926-27	11	9
1927-28	8	7
1928-29	11	4
1929-30	14	7
1930-31	14

Figures	Match	Result
6/20	v Prahran, 1932-33	Won
6/32	v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1933-34	Won
5/21	v North Melbourne, 1930-31	Won
5/30	v St Kilda, 1929-30	Won
5/31	v Richmond, 1924-25	Lost