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On this day

1 August

1981
45 years ago

A brawl involving 36 players, two runners and six umpires broke out a minute into the last quarter of Melbourne's match with South Melbourne, and South's David Rhys-Jones was later suspended for four weeks.

Oddities

From the archive

  1. 1925

    North Melbourne's Fred Rutley took part in a half-time brawl against Geelong at Arden Street that ended with the VFL tribunal disqualifying him for life, a ban lifted in time for him to play again in 1930.

    Tribunal chairman Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer called it one of the worst cases ever to come before it.

    Umpires and tribunal

  2. 1925

    St Kilda protested Melbourne's win at the Junction Oval on 1 August 1925, and Gerry Donnelly turned out to have been mistakenly granted a permit when he was bound to play for North Melbourne.

    Melbourne kept the points but had to clear Donnelly to North Melbourne immediately.

    Administration

  3. 1992

    St Kilda played its final home premiership game at Moorabbin Oval, beating the Fitzroy Lions by 18 points in front of 27,736 people.

    Grounds

Matches

  1. 2015

    Draw

    Gold Coast12 goals 11 behinds, 83 pointsdrew withWest Coast11 goals 17 behinds, 83 points

    AFL · Round 18 · Metricon Stadium · crowd 9,341

  2. 1992

    Hawthorn won by 160 points

    Hawthorn32 goals 24 behinds, 216 pointsdef.Essendon8 goals 8 behinds, 56 points

    AFL · Round 20 · MCG · crowd 41,070

  3. 1964

    Draw

    Essendon5 goals 13 behinds, 43 pointsdrew withGeelong6 goals 7 behinds, 43 points

    VFL · Round 15 · Windy Hill · crowd 27,000

Debuts

  1. 1925
    Percy Bentley

    Richmond v Hawthorn, first of 263 VFL/AFL games

  2. 2014
    Tim Membrey

    Sydney v Essendon, first of 222 VFL/AFL games so far

  3. 2009
    Tom Rockliff

    Brisbane v Collingwood, first of 208 VFL/AFL games

  4. 2010
    Liam Jones

    Western Bulldogs v North Melbourne, first of 205 VFL/AFL games

  5. 1997
    Jason Johnson

    Essendon v North Melbourne, first of 184 VFL/AFL games

  6. 1953
    Frank Adams

    Melbourne v North Melbourne, first of 164 VFL/AFL games

  7. 1987
    Mick McGuane

    Collingwood v Footscray, first of 155 VFL/AFL games

  8. 2021
    Jake Bowey

    Melbourne v Gold Coast, first of 100 VFL/AFL games so far

Born on this day

  1. 2007
    Oskar Taylor, still playing

    GWS

  2. 2003
    Campbell Gray, still playing

    Richmond, 13 games (2025-2026)

  3. 2000
    Danielle Ponter, still playing

    Adelaide Crows, 86 games (2019-2025)

  4. 1990
    Matthew Broadbent

    Port Adelaide, 171 games (2009-2019)

  5. 1988
    Travis Boak

    Port Adelaide, 387 games (2007-2025)

  6. 1986
    Liam Picken

    Western Bulldogs, 198 games (2009-2017)

  7. 1981
    Dean Cox

    West Coast, 290 games (2001-2014)

  8. 1971
    Jose Romero

    Footscray, 211 games (1988-2001)

  9. 1967
    Dean Anderson

    Hawthorn, 150 games (1988-1996)

  10. 1956
    Peter McCormack

    Collingwood, 165 games (1976-1986)

  11. 1905
    Jimmy Adamson

    North Melbourne, 180 games (1929-1941)