1905 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1905 Victorian Football League season December 2017 December 2017 AFL Grand Final 50px FIT 50px COL 0.3 (3) 1.3 (9) 4.6 (30) 4.6 (30) 0.1 (1) 1.3 (9) 2.4 (16) 2.5 (17) 4.6 (30) 2.5 (17) 30 September 1905 Melbourne Cricket Ground 28,000 Henry "Ivo" Crapp 1904 1906 The 1905 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1905. It was the 8th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1905 VFL season. The match, attended by 28,000 spectators,The Age, October 2, 1905; p. 9 was won by Fitzroy by a margin of 13 points, marking that club's fourth premiership victory and second in succession. Background the home-and-away season of 1905, Collingwood had dominated, losing only two games, one of them in the opening round to Fitzroy and the other to Essendon in the fourteenth round. Fitzroy had been on top until the return match between the two sides in the eighth round, but slumped a little during the latter half of the season with losses to Geelong and Carlton, plus a draw with South Melbourne. In the finals, however, Fitzroy had bounced back against Essendon, whilst Collingwood had failed badly against the Blues – losing by 46 points, which was a big margin at the time. September 1905 was by far the coldest September ever known in Melbourne since records began in 1855. The average maximum temperature was 13.53 C F and the average minimum 5.6 C F as against averages up to 1996http://www.bom.gov.au/tmp/cdio/IDCJAC0002_086071.pdf Mean Maximum temperature for Melbourne Regional Office 30 May 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20121007030249/http://www.bom.gov.au/tmp/cdio/IDCJAC0002_086071.pdf 7 October 2012 dead dmy-all of 17.08 C F and 7.7 C F. The result was that, although no rain actually fell during the game, the frequent showers earlier in the month were never able to evaporate before the match was played, leaving the MCG very heavy and soft all through. Combined with a biting cold wind and temperatures of around 11 C F, this made conditions very difficult. No goals were scored in the first quarter, and only one behind in the last. In the third quarter, however, Fitzroy's superior pace and power allowed it to kick three goals with the wind, which gave it a comfortable winning margin."Fitzroy Again Premiers" in The Age, October 2, 1905; p. 9 As in 1927 and 1960, the 1905 Grand Final saw the losing team kick the lowest score for the entire season. In fact, with the exception of the 1927 Grand Final and two games in 1906 and 1908, no V/AFL match has had a lower aggregate score than the 1905 Grand Final's 6.11 (47). Only one match since (Footscray versus Fitzroy in 1953) has had as few as seventeen aggregate scoring shots. Apart from the 1960 Grand Final, Collingwood has not kicked a lower score since 1901.Collingwood: Lowest Scores Result thumb|right|250px|Fitzroy, Premier team 1st 2nd 3rd Final Collingwood 0.1 1.3 2.4 2.5 (17) Fitzroy 0.3 1.3 4.6 4.6 (30) Best Fitzroy Bailes (best on ground), Jenkins, Beauchamp, Millis, Fontaine, Johnson, L. Barker, Walker Collingwood Drohan, Pears, Dummett, Rush, Green, Strachan Goals Fitzroy Millis, Trotter, Brosnan, L. Barker Collingwood Nash, Pears Teams _gold_v_top 860038 002d62 860038 Fitzroy _blackstripes4 000000 000000 Collingwood #FED102 Fitzroy Fitzroy Football Club #860038 Wally Naismith Geoff Moriarty Lou Barker Ern Jenkins Jim Sharp Percy Sheehan Gilbert Barker Tammy Beauchamp Barclay Bailes Gerald Brosnan (c) Fred Fontaine Joe Johnson Alf Wilkinson Jack McDonough Percy Trotter Herbert Milne Bill Walker Les Millis #FFFFFF Collingwood Collingwood Football Club #000000 Matthew Fell Bill Proudfoot Alf Dummett Bob Rush Jack Monohan Don Fraser George Green Jock McHale Percy Gibb Charlie Pannam (c) Robert Nash Harry Pears George Angus Eddie Drohan Jack Incoll Arthur Leach Bob Strachan Dick Condon Dick Condon Field umpire – Henry "Ivo" Crapp Boundary umpire – Jack Davidson See also 1905 VFL season References Grand final Category:VFL/AFL Grand Finals Category:Fitzroy Football Club Category:Collingwood Football Club Category:September 1905 in sports Category:September 1905 in Australia