1946 VFL Grand Final

The 1946 VFL Grand Final in progress.

Essendon	Melbourne
22.18 (150)	13.9 (87)

	1	2	3	4
ESS	7.2 (44)	9.7 (61)	20.15 (135)	22.18 (150)
MEL	8.3 (51)	10.4 (64)	11.5 (71)	13.9 (87)

Date

5 October 1946

Stadium

Melbourne Cricket Ground

Attendance

73,743

Umpires

Thomas Bride

← 1945

VFL Grand Final

1947 →

The 1946 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 5 October 1946. It was the 48th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1946 VFL season. The match, attended by 73,743 spectators, was won by Essendon by a margin of 63 points, marking that club's 8th premiership flag and 6th involving a grand final.

Essendon won comfortably despite trailing at half time. A tally of 11 goals and 8 behinds in the third quarter by Essendon took the game away from Melbourne. This remains the best third quarter score by any team in a VFL/AFL Grand Final.

Wally Lock, Melbourne's half back, was playing his 100th VFL game.

This was the first of six successive Grand Final appearances by Essendon.

Teams

Essendon captain-coach Dick Reynolds

Essendon
B:	Les Gardiner	Cec Ruddell	Perc Bushby
HB:	Herbie Tonkes	Wally Buttsworth	Harold Lambert
C:	George Hassell	Bill Pearson	Albert Harper
HF:	Harry Equid	Gordon Lane	Dick Reynolds (c)
F:	Bob McClure	Bill Brittingham	Keith Rawle
Foll:	Gordon Abbott	Jack Cassin	Bill Hutchison
Reserve(s):	Jack Jones	Chris Lambert
Coach:	Dick Reynolds

Melbourne
B:	Billy Deans	Shane McGrath	Don Cordner
HB:	Col McLean	Ted Cordner	Wally Lock
C:	George Bickford	Len Dockett	Roy Stabb
HF:	Gordon Bowman	Fred Fanning	Jim Mitchell
F:	Adrian Dullard	Norm Smith (c)	Ernie O'Rourke
Foll:	Jack Mueller	Stan Rule	Alby Rodda
Reserve(s):	Frank Kennedy	Arnold Byfield
Coach:	'Checker' Hughes

Umpire - Thomas Bride

Statistics

Goalkickers

Gordon Lane

Essendon

Lane 7
Brittingham 4
Hutchison 3
Reynolds 3
McClure 2
Cassin 1
Equid 1
Rawle 1

Melbourne

Mueller 6
Dullard 3
Bowman 1
Fanning 1
O'Rourke 1
Rodda 1

Attendance

MCG crowd - 73,743

References

1946 Grand Final stats page on AFL Table
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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Essendon Football Club 1946 VFL premiers

Essendon 22.18 (150) defeated Melbourne 13.9 (87), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Tonkes 2. Rawle 3. Reynolds (c) 5. H. Lambert 6. Hassell 7. Hutchison 13. Harper 14. C. Lambert 15. Buttsworth 18. Gardiner 19. Cassin 20. Pearson 21. Ruddell 22. Lane 23. Brittingham 24. Jones 25. Abbott 31. McClure 32. Equid 35. Bushby

Coach: Reynolds

Essendon Football Club

History Premierships & Records Players Captains Coaches Awards W. S. Crichton Medal Leading Goalkickers Captain: Jobe Watson Coach: John Worsfold Nickname: Bombers

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1946 VFL Grand Final

Teams

Statistics

Goalkickers

Attendance

References

See also