1918 VFL Grand Final
Collingwood
South Melbourne
7.15 (57)
9.8 (62)
1
2
3
4
COL
3.3 (21)
4.9 (33)
7.12 (54)
7.15 (57)
SM
2.5 (17)
2.5 (17)
6.6 (42)
9.8 (62)
Date 7 September 1918 Stadium Melbourne Cricket Ground Attendance 39,262
The 1918 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the South Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club , held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 7 September 1918. It was the 21st annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League , staged to determine the premiers for the 1918 VFL season . The match, attended by 39,262 spectators, was won by South Melbourne by a margin of 5 points, marking that club's second premiership victory.
Right to challenge [ ]
This season was played under the amended Argus system . South Melbourne was the minor premier, and Collingwood had finished second. The teams both qualified for this match by winning their semi-finals matches.
If Collingwood had won this match, South Melbourne would have had the right to challenge Collingwood to a rematch for the premiership on the following weekend, because South was the minor premier. The winner of that match would then have won the premiership.[1]
Teams [ ]
Collingwood
B :
Maurie Sheehy
Harry Saunders
Alec Mutch
HB :
Bert Colechin
Con McCarthy
Charlie Brown
C :
Charlie Pannam
Percy Wilson (c)
Bill Twomey
HF :
Tom Wraith
Bill Walton
Jack Green
F :
Ernie Lumsden
Dick Lee
Gus Dobrigh
Foll :
Les Hughes
Pen Reynolds
Charlie Laxton
Res :
Coach :
Jock McHale
Statistics [ ]
South Melbourne, Premiers
Goalkickers [ ]
South Melbourne :
C Laird 3
G Ryan 3
H Robertson 2
E Barber 1
Collingwood :
D Lee 3
E Lumsden 2
L Hughes 1
C Laxton 1
See also [ ]
References [ ]
^ Rodgers, Stephen (1992), Every Game Ever Played: VFL/AFL Results, 1897–1991 (3rd ed.), Ringwood, VIC: Viking O'Neil
External links [ ]
South Melbourne 9.8 (62) defeated Collingwood 7.15 (57), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
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