Seventeen year old Melbourne ruckman Fred Fanning is credited with a 116 yard drop kick in the 1939 Seconds grand final at the MCG, though neither the Argus nor the Age mentioned it.
The kick would be ten yards longer than any other in the record books.
Records
East Fremantle won the 1907 WAFL grand final on the day by five points, but Perth was awarded the flag on protest after a free kick was judged to have come after the half-time bell.
Oddities
The Khaki Girls from a Melbourne clothing factory took a train to Ballarat to play the Lucas Girls at Eastern Oval, in what was billed as Victoria's first women's football match.
More than 7000 watched, hundreds greeted the visitors at the station, and the Lucas Girls won by 16 points.
Women's football
The Grand Final half-time show at Waverley Park paraded sporting celebrities in Ford Capris, while Robert de Castella and singer Angry Anderson were driven to the centre in a blue Batmobile-like vehicle.
Media
Norm Smith Medal panellists lodged their votes before the final siren, and three later said they would have voted more heavily for Brisbane's Michael Voss had they waited.
Nathan Buckley won the medal in Collingwood's loss, polling 12 votes to Voss's four.
Awards
Grand Final
AFL · MCG · crowd 100,013
Grand Final
AFL · MCG · crowd 100,014
Grand Final
AFL · MCG · crowd 100,007
Grand Final
AFL · MCG · crowd 91,817
Grand Final
AFL · MCG · crowd 93,102
Grand Final
AFL · Waverley Park · crowd 75,230
Grand Final
VFL · MCG · crowd 100,042
Grand Final
VFL · MCG · crowd 113,839
Grand Final
VFL · MCG · crowd 116,828
Grand Final
VFL · MCG · crowd 70,330
Grand Final
VFL · MCG · crowd 63,336
Grand Final
VFL · MCG · crowd 54,536
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