Melbourne built a 33 point lead over Hawthorn at Waverley in the first quarter, and sparked a brawl involving all but two players on the ground, then wasted the rest of the day.
From then on Melbourne kicked just 2.20, in what the page calls three quarters of the most wasteful football ever seen on the ground.
Oddities
Richmond hired a mounted trooper to keep the ground clear during the intervals of its home matches in 1900.
Grounds
New South Wales beat Tasmania by three points at the Melbourne Carnival, which the carnival's record calls its biggest upset.
Oddities
Elimination Final
AFL · Colonial Stadium · crowd 44,709
Fremantle won by 113 points
AFL · Round 20 · Patersons Stadium · crowd 31,390
Carlton won by 104 points
VFL · Round 19 · Princes Park · crowd 17,087
North Melbourne v Hawthorn, first of 185 VFL/AFL games
Collingwood v Fitzroy, first of 181 VFL/AFL games
Hawthorn v Geelong, first of 130 VFL/AFL games so far
Adelaide, 122 games (2018-2026)
Sydney Swans, 45 games (2022-2026)
North Melbourne, 37 games (2024-2026)
St Kilda, 10 games (2026)
Gold Coast Suns, 9 games (2026)
Port Adelaide, 261 games (1995-2007)
Carlton, 252 games (1995-2007)
North Melbourne, 204 games (1997-2007)
Geelong, 201 games (1946-1956)
Geelong, 168 games (1931-1940)
South Melbourne, 155 games (1909-1919)
Essendon, 154 games (1938-1947)
South Melbourne, 152 games (1897-1908)
St Kilda, 152 games (2005-2016)
