1933 VFL Grand Final

The 1933 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1933. It was the 37th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1933 VFL season. The match, attended by 75,754 spectators, was won by South Melbourne by a margin of 42 points, marking that club's third premiership victory.^[1]

Bob Pratt kicked three goals for South Melbourne which saw him overtake Gordon Coventry as the 1933 season's leading goalkicker.

South Melbourne's premiership side was often referred to as the 'foreign legion' due to the high number of players in the team who had been recruited from interstate.^[2] The majority of their recruits around that time came from Western Australia which earned South Melbourne the nickname 'Swans'.^[3]

This was the first of two successive years in which these teams met in the premiership decider. In the 1934 VFL Grand Final it was Richmond which emerged victorious. South Melbourne did not taste premiership success again for another 72 years, eventually winning the 2005 AFL Grand Final (then known as the Sydney Swans).

Teams

South Melbourne Captain-coach Jack Bisset

South Melbourne
B:	Jock McKenzie	Hec McKay	Jack Austin
HB:	Bill Faul	Laurie Nash	Hugh McLaughlin
C:	Harry Clarke	Len Thomas	John Bowe
HF:	Jim O'Meara	Brighton Diggins	Peter Reville
F:	Herbie Matthews	Bob Pratt	Ossie Bertram
Foll:	Jack Bisset (c)	Dinny Kelleher	Terry Brain
Reserve(s):	Bert Beard
Coach:	Jack Bisset

Richmond
B:	Martin Bolger	Maurie Sheahan	Kevin O'Neill
HB:	Jack Stenhouse	Joe Murdoch	Basil McCormack
C:	Stan Judkins	Eric Zschech	Alan Geddes
HF:	Horrie Farmer	Thomas O'Halloran	Jack Baggott
F:	Jack Dyer	Jack Titus	Bert Foster
Foll:	Percy Bentley (c)	Gordon Strang	Ray Martin
Reserve(s):	Jack Anderson
Coach:	Billy Schmidt

Umpire – Bob Scott

Statistics

Score

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
South Melbourne	3.5	6.7	8.12	9.17	9.17 (71)
Richmond	0.2	2.3	3.3	4.5	4.5 (29)

Goal kickers

South Melbourne:

Pratt 3
Brain 2
Diggins 2
Reville 1
Thomas 1

Richmond:

Farmer 2
Martin 1
Strang 1

References

↑ "SOUTH MELBOURNE WINS RICHMOND EASILY DEFEATED.". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 2 October 1933. p. 13. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
↑ "Lets look at Football with Hugh Buggy". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 9 May 1952. p. 10. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
↑ "Stuart Joynt's Sportlight.". The Daily News. Perth: National Library of Australia. 4 January 1940. p. 12 Edition: HOME EDITION. Retrieved 1 May 2013.

External links

"Fullpointsfooty article on Sth Melbourne with info on their 1933 premiership". Archived from the original on 26 January 2012.

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South Melbourne Football Club 1933 VFL premiers

South Melbourne 9.17 (71) defeated Richmond 4.5 (29), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Bisset (c) 2. Matthews 3. Austin 5. Brain 6. Clarke 8. McLaughlin 9. McKay 10. Bertram 11. O'Meara 12. Thomas 14. Faul 17. Diggins 18. Bowe 21. Reville 23. Pratt 25. Nash 29. Kelleher 30. McKenzie 34. Beard

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