1917 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1917 Victorian Football League season December 2017 December 2017 1917 VFL 50px 9.20 (74) 50px 5.9 (39) COLL FIT 2.6 (18) 3.8 (26) 6.14 (50) 9.20 (74) 1.0 (6) 2.2 (14) 3.4 (22) 5.9 (39) 22 September 1917 28,512 Melbourne Cricket Ground 1916 1918 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 _blackstripes4_2 ffffff 000000 000000 Collingwood _navy_v_top _navytop 860038 ffffff 860038 Fitzroy #FFFFFF Collingwood Collingwood Football Club #000000 Jock McHale Harry Saunders Alec Mutch George Anderson Charlie Brown Jack Green Tom Drummond Percy Wilson (c) Charlie Pannam Gus Dobrigh Harry Curtis Charlie Lee Con McCarthy Dick Lee Ernie Lumsden Les Hughes Pen Reynolds Charlie Laxton Jock McHale #142855 Fitzroy Fitzroy Football Club #860038 Bill Byrne Fred Bamford Bert Lenne Chris Lethbridge Jim Toohey Bob King Roy Millen George Holden (c) Carl Keller Percy Parratt Thomas Heaney Gordon Rattray Jimmy Freake Len Wigraft Tom Lowrie Fred Moore Charlie Norris Ted McDonald George Holden Umpire – Norden Statistics thumb|right|300px|Collingwood FC, Premier team Goalkickers Collingwood: D.Lee 4 Curtis 3 Dobrigh 1 Hughes 1Fitzroy: 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. 0-670-86814-0 See also 1917 VFL season Grand final Category:VFL/AFL Grand Finals Category:Collingwood Football Club Category:Fitzroy Football Club Category:September 1917 in sports