1941 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1941 Victorian Football League season December 2017 December 2017 1941 VFL 50px 19.13 (127) 50px 13.20 (98) MEL ESS 6.6 (42) 11.9 (75) 14.11 (95) 19.13 (127) 1.1 (7) 2.6 (18) 6.12 (48) 13.20 (98) 27 September 1941 77,746 Melbourne Cricket Ground 1940 1942 The 1941 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 1941. It was the 43rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1941 VFL season. The match, attended by 79,687 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 29 points, marking that club's fifth premiership victory. By claiming their third successive premiership, Melbourne joined Carlton and Collingwood as the only clubs to achieve the feat. Melbourne's team was understrength as they had been depleted by the war. Syd Anderson, Harold Ball, Ron Barassi and Keith Truscott, who were members of the previous season's premiership, missed the Grand Final as they were serving their country and all died in World War II. There were sets of brothers on each team, with the Cordner brothers of Melbourne taking on the Reynolds brothers of Essendon. Teams _red_v_top 061A33 000000 ff0000 Melbourne _redrightsash _hoops_black 000000 ffffff FB0000 Essendon #CC2031 Melbourne Melbourne Football Club #061A33 Richie Emselle Shane McGrath Don Cordner Col McLean Ted Cordner Wally Lock Syd Anderson Allan La Fontaine (c) Stan Heal Maurie Gibb Ron Baggott Ray Wartman Jack O'Keefe Norm Smith Gerry Daly Jack Mueller Adrian Dullard Percy Beames Warren Lewis Frank 'Checker' Hughes #CC2031 Essendon Essendon Football Club #000000 Elton Plummer Cec Ruddell Fred Green Bob Flanigan Wally Buttsworth Allan Hird Ernie Coward Harold Lambert Jack Caesar Gordon Lane Les Griggs Murray Exelby Jack Cassin Tom Reynolds Ted Bryce Hugh Torney Gordon Abbott Dick Reynolds (c) Ted Regan Dick Reynolds Statistics Goalkickers right|170px|thumb|Don Cordner Melbourne Beames 6 Mueller 3 Smith 3 Wartman 2 Anderson 1 Daly 1 Dullard 1 Gibb 1 O'Keefe 1Essendon T.Reynolds 3 Bryce 2 D.Reynolds 2 Abbott 1 Cassin 1 Exelby 1 Lane 1 Regan 1 Torney 1 References 1941 Grand Final stats page on AFL Tables 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 1941 VFL season Grand final Category:VFL/AFL Grand Finals Category:Melbourne Football Club Category:Essendon Football Club Category:September 1941 sports events in Australia