1939 VFL grand final
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The 1939 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1939. It was the 41st annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1939 VFL season.
The match
The match, attended by 78,110 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 53 points, marking that club's third premiership victory and first since winning the 1926 VFL Grand Final.
The teams
| Melbourne | Collingwood |
- Umpire(s) – Alan Coward and Bill Blackburn
Statistics
Goalkickers
| Melbourne: P Beames 4 A Rodda 4 L Jones 3 H Ball 2 J Mueller 2 K Truscott 2 R Baggott 1 A La Fontaine 1 N Smith 1 R Wartman 1 | Collingwood: R Todd 6 D Fothergill 3 J Knight 2 D Balfour 1 V Doherty 1 C McCrae 1 |
See also
External links
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