1917 VFL Grand Final

Team	1	2	3	Final
Collingwood	2.6	3.8	6.14	9.20 (74)
Fitzroy	1.0	2.2	3.4	5.9 (39)

The 1917 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 22 September 1917. It was the 20th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1917 VFL season. The match, attended by 28,512 spectators, was won by Collingwood by a margin of 35 points, marking that club's fourth premiership victory.

War had restricted the competition to just six clubs during the home and away season and Fitzroy, despite winning just six of their 15 games, qualified for the final by finishing fourth.

Fitzroy made it into the Grand Final by defeating minor premiers Collingwood by a goal a week earlier but Collingwood this time won comfortably, dominating from the opening quarter.

Alec Mutch of Collingwood was playing his 100th VFL game.

Teams

Collingwood
B:	Jock McHale	Harry Saunders	Alec Mutch
HB:	George Anderson	Charlie Brown	Jack Green
C:	Tom Drummond	Percy Wilson (c)	Charlie E. Pannam
HF:	Gus Dobrigh	Harry Curtis	Charlie Lee
F:	Con McCarthy	Dick Lee	Ernie Lumsden
Foll:	Les Hughes	Pen Reynolds	Charlie Laxton
Reserve(s):
Coach:	Jock McHale

Fitzroy
B:	Bill Byrne	Fred Bamford	Bert Lenne
HB:	Chris Lethbridge	Jim Toohey	Bob King
C:	Roy Millen	George Holden (c)	Carl Keller
HF:	Percy Parratt	Thomas Heaney	Gordon Rattray
F:	Jimmy Freake	Len Wigraft	Tom Lowrie
Foll:	Fred Moore	Charlie Norris	Ted McDonald
Reserve(s):
Coach:	George Holden

Umpire - Norden

Statistics

Goalkickers

Collingwood:

D.Lee 4
Curtis 3
Dobrigh 1
Hughes 1

Fitzroy:

Freake 1
Norris 1
Parratt 1
Rattray 1
Toohey 1

Attendance

MCG crowd - 28,512

References

1917 VFL Grand Final statistics
The Official statistical history of the AFL 2004
Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0

Victorian/Australian Football League Grand Finals

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Collingwood Football Club 1917 VFL premiers

Collingwood 9.20 (74) defeated Fitzroy 5.9 (39), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Anderson 2. Brown 3. Curtis 7. Dobrigh 8. Drummond 9. Green 10. Hughes 14. Laxton 12. C. Lee 13. D. Lee 17. McHale 18. McCarthy 19. Pannam 20. Reynolds 23. Saunders 24. Wilson (c) 26. Lumsden 27. Mutch

Coach: McHale

Collingwood Football Club

History Records Current squad Players Captains Coaches Awards Copeland Trophy Leading Goalkickers Captain: Scott Pendlebury Coach: Nathan Buckley Nickname: Magpies

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Awards	Copeland Trophy

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Fitzroy Football Club

History Records Players Captains Coaches Honour roll Team of the Century Leading Goalkickers

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Fitzroy Football Club merged with the Brisbane Bears in 1996 to form the Brisbane Lions

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