1933 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1933 Victorian Football League season December 2017 December 2017 1933 VFL 50px 9.17 (71) 50px 4.5 (29) SM RIC 3.5 (23) 6.7 (43) 8.12 (60) 9.17 (71) 0.2 (2) 2.3 (15) 3.3 (21) 4.5 (29) 30 September 1933 75,754 Melbourne Cricket Ground Bob Scott 1932 1934 The 1933 VFL grand final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1933. It was the 35th annual grand final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1933 VFL season. The match, attended by 75,754 spectators, was won by South Melbourne by a margin of 42 points, marking that club's third premiership victory.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11697692 SOUTH MELBOURNE WINS RICHMOND EASILY DEFEATED. The Argus Melbourne 2 October 1933 1 May 2013 13 National Library of Australia As of 2023, Richmond's total of 4.5 (29) remains the lowest score conceded by South Melbourne since 1919.Australian Football; Sydney: Lowest Scores Conceded since 1919 Bob Pratt kicked three goals for South Melbourne which saw him overtake Gordon Coventry as the 1933 season's leading goalkicker. South Melbourne's premiership side was often referred to as the "foreign legion" due to the high number of players in the team who had been recruited from interstate.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23197830 Lets look at Football with Hugh Buggy The Argus Melbourne 9 May 1952 1 May 2013 10 National Library of Australia The majority of their recruits around that time came from Western Australia which earned South Melbourne the nickname "Swans".http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78973868 Stuart Joynt's Sportlight. The Daily News Perth 4 January 1940 1 May 2013 12 HOME National Library of Australia This was the first of two successive years in which these teams met in the premiership decider. In the 1934 VFL Grand Final it was Richmond which emerged victorious. South Melbourne did not win another premiership for 72 years, eventually winning the 2005 AFL Grand Final — as the "Sydney Swans" — having relocated to Sydney in 1982. Teams _Vonwhite _hoops_red FF0000 000000 S. Melbourne _goldrightsash _hoops_black 000000 ffffff FFD200 Richmond #FFFFFF South Melbourne Sydney Swans #ED171F Jock McKenzie Hec McKay Jack Austin Bill Faul Laurie Nash Hugh McLaughlin Harry Clarke Len Thomas John Bowe Joe O'Meara Brighton Diggins Peter Reville Herbie Matthews Bob Pratt Ossie Bertram Jack Bisset (c) Dinny Kelleher Terry Brain Bert Beard Jack Bisset #FED102 Richmond Richmond Football Club #000000 Martin Bolger Maurie Sheahan Kevin O'Neill Jack Stenhouse Joe Murdoch Basil McCormack Stan Judkins Eric Zschech Allan Geddes Horrie Farmer Thomas O'Halloran Jack Baggott Jack Dyer Jack Titus Bert Foster Percy Bentley (c) Gordon Strang Ray Martin Jack Anderson Billy Schmidt Umpire – Bob Scott Statistics 160px|right|thumb|South Melbourne captain and coach, Jack Bisset Score Team 1 2 3 4 Total South Melbourne 3.5 6.7 8.12 9.17 9.17 (71) Richmond 0.2 2.3 3.3 4.5 4.5 (29) Goal kickers South Melbourne: Pratt 3 Brain 2 Diggins 2 Reville 1 Thomas 1 Richmond: Farmer 2 Martin 1 Strang 1 See also 1933 VFL season References External links http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/Sydney_part_1.htm Fullpointsfooty article on Sth Melbourne with info on their 1933 premiership usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20120126172532/http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/Sydney_part_1.htm 26 January 2012 Grand final Category:VFL/AFL Grand Finals Category:Sydney Swans Category:Richmond Football Club Category:September 1933 in sports