26 September

Fitzroy was founded at a meeting in the Brunswick Hotel, a Fitzroy pub that now trades as the Old Colonial Inn.

Clubs

Premiers Essendon beat a Combined Services team including Laurie Nash, Bob Pratt and Ron Todd 24.18 to 20.15 in a patriotic match at Princes Park, before 10,000 spectators.

All three had left the VFL for the VFA before the war.

War and society

Umpire Jim McMaster paid Dandenong's Jim Miller a free kick for a push before the ball had even been bounced in the VFA grand final at Junction Oval, and Miller kicked the opening goal.

Dandenong won by six points, and Preston's protest that the free kick came before play began was defeated three days later.

Umpires and tribunal

Julia Gillard told Meet the Press the morning after the drawn grand final that the replay would make it an eight quarter Grand Final.

Media

Speaking from the United Nations the day before the AFL Grand Final, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he would barrack for the Sydney Swans in spirit and that Julie Bishop might have to represent him elegantly.

Media

Grand Final

AFL · MCG · crowd 100,023

Grand Final

AFL · MCG · crowd 99,251

Grand Final

AFL · MCG · crowd 94,431

Grand Final

AFL · MCG · crowd 95,007

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 92,754

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 112,964

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 121,696

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 103,506

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 89,149

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 30,495

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 53,400

Preliminary Final

AFL · Domain Stadium · crowd 43,080