27 September

A crowd of 10,000 at Prince's Oval went home without a game on 27 September 1879, after Carlton protested Melbourne's plan to play Geelong's Jack Sandilands and the match was abandoned.

Administration

Jack Worrall, playing cricket at Albert Park, was talked into turning out for a man-short Fitzroy against South Melbourne and played the entire VFA match in his white flannels.

It was Fitzroy's last match of 1884 and Worrall's first season with the club.

Oddities

Richmond told the VFA it would not play the 1904 challenge final if Mr Allen umpired it, and with no replacement offered the match was scratched and North Melbourne took the premiership.

Richmond blamed him for poor control of rough play in two semi-finals.

Umpires and tribunal

Several hundred spectators invaded the field and fought in a melee at the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve in the 1930 VFA final between Oakleigh and Northcote, after a Northcote player punched an Oakleigh trainer.

Oakleigh's delegate later called it the roughest game he had ever seen.

Oddities

The 1941 Second Eighteens grand final ended in a bench-clearing brawl between Essendon and Fitzroy, and both clubs were later fined 10 pounds for unseemly conduct.

Oddities

Carlton won the 1947 grand final by a single point when first-year player Fred Stafford snapped a goal on his wrong foot less than 40 seconds from the bell.

Records

Grand Final

AFL · MCG · crowd 100,022

Grand Final

AFL · MCG · crowd 99,454

Grand Final

AFL · MCG · crowd 100,012

Grand Final

AFL · MCG · crowd 79,451

Grand Final

AFL · MCG · crowd 99,645

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 101,861

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 113,461

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 110,551

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 119,165

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 82,890

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 85,793

Grand Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 79,687