1933 VFL Grand Final

The 1933 VFL Grand Final took place on September 30, 1933 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between VFL clubs Richmond and South Melbourne. The match was attended by a crowd of 75754 people and they saw South Melbourne win comfortably by 42 points. Bob Pratt kicked three goals for South Melbourne which saw him overtake Gordon Coventry as the 1933 season's leading goalkicker. It was the club's third premiership and they didn't taste premiership success again for another 72 years.

South Melbourne's premiership side was often referred to a the 'foreign legion' due to the high number of players in the team who had been recruited from interstate. The majority of their recruits around that time came from Western Australia which earned South Melbourne the nickname 'Swans'.

Teams

Aussie rules team old| title = South Melbourne
backpocket1 = Jock McKenzie
fullback = Hec McKay
backpocket2 = Jack Austin
halfbackflank1 = Bill Faul
centrehalfback = Laurie Nash
halfbackflank2 = Hugh McLaughlin
wing1 = Harry Clarke
centre = Len Thomas
wing2 = John Bowe
halfforwardflank1 = Jim O'Meara
centrehalfforward = Brighton Diggins
halfforwardflank2 = Peter Reville
forwardpocket1 = Herbie Matthews
fullforward = Bob Pratt
forwardpocket2 = Ossie Bertram
ruck = Jack Bisset (c)
ruckrover = Dinny Kelleher
rover = Terry Brain
reserve1 = Bert Beard
reserve2 =
coach = Jack Bisset

Aussie rules team old| title = Richmond
backpocket1 = Martin Bolger
fullback = Maurie Sheahan
backpocket2 = Kevin O'Neill
halfbackflank1 = Jack Stenhouse
centrehalfback = Joe Murdoch
halfbackflank2 = Basil McCormack
wing1 = Stan Judkins
centre = Eric Zschech
wing2 = Alan Geddes
halfforwardflank1 = Horrie Farmer
centrehalfforward = Thomas O'Halloran
halfforwardflank2 = Jack Baggott
forwardpocket1 = Jack Dyer
fullforward = Jack Titus
forwardpocket2 = Bert Foster
ruck = Percy Bentley (c)
ruckrover = Gordon Strang
rover = Ray Martin
reserve1 = Jack Anderson
reserve2 =
coach = Billy Schmidt

tatistics

core

Goal kickers

South Melbourne:
* Pratt 3
* Brain 2
* Diggins 2
* Reville 1
* Thomas 1

Richmond:
* Farmer 2
* Martin 1
* Strang 1

External links

* [http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/Sydney_part_1.htm Fullpointsfooty article on Sth Melbourne with info on their 1933 premiership]

ee also

* 1933 VFL season