1961 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1961 Victorian Football League season May 2022 October 2011 1961 VFL 50px 13.16 (94) 50px 7.9 (51) HAW FOO 2.4 (16) 3.9 (27) 9.15 (69) 13.16 (94) 4.2 (26) 5.5 (35) 6.6 (42) 7.9 (51) 23 September 1961 107,935 Melbourne Cricket Ground 1960 1962 The 1961 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested by the Footscray Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 23 September 1961. It was the 64th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1961 VFL season. The match, attended by 107,935 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 43 points, making it the club's first premiership victory. Hawthorn, which was competing in its first VFL grand final since entering the competition in 1925, went into the game as minor premiers, favourites, and on a club-record 11-game winning streak.https://afltables.com/afl/teams/hawthorn/streaks.html Streaks – Hawthorn 11 June 2023 AFL Tables Footscray, which also entered the competition in 1925, and was in its second grand final (after winning the 1954 premiership), had finished the home-and-away season in fourth place. They qualified for the grand final after upsetting Ron Barassi-led Melbourne by 27 points in the preliminary final. That ended Melbourne's record sequence of seven consecutive grand final appearance. It was the first grand final not to feature any of the eight foundation VFL clubs. It was a young Footscray side, with only two players having more than 80 VFL games experience, although one of them was the veteran Ted Whitten. Hawthorn's Brendan Edwards was playing in his 100th VFL game and dominated in the centre. Despite trailing at half time, Hawthorn won comfortably, after kicking six goals to one in a dominant third quarter. The 1961 grand final is the earliest VFL grand final for which complete television footage has survived, and it has been made available on DVD. Teams _brown_stripes_copia _hoops_gold FBBF15 000000 823F00 Hawthorn _westbulldogs16h _westernbulldogs2019h 004AE5 ffffff 004AE5 Footscray #4D2004 Hawthorn Hawthorn Football Club #FBBF15 29 Reg Poole 1 Les Kaine 10 Graham Cooper 20 Sted Hay 28 John McArthur 26 Cam McPherson 30 Colin Youren 9 Brendan Edwards 5 John Fisher 14 Ian Mort 31 Garry Young 4 Morton Browne 11 Malcolm Hill 23 John Peck 19 Jack Cunningham 12 John Winneke 2 Graham Arthur (c) 7 Ian Law 22 Phil Hay 3 Ron Nalder John Kennedy Sr. #C70136 Footscray Footscray Football Club #014896 28 Charlie Evans 29 Bernie Lee 4 Bob Ware 25 John Jillard 23 John Hoiles 38 Barry Ion 12 Alex Gardiner 8 Bob Spargo 37 Ian Bryant 15 John Quarrell 17 Graham Ion 30 Barney McKellar 3 Ted Whitten (c) 24 Jack Slattery 6 Keith Beamish 14 John Schultz 9 Cameron McDonald 2 Merv Hobbs 16 Ken Duff 5 Charlie Stewart Ted Whitten Umpire: Frank Schwab Scoreboard Team 1 2 3 Final Hawthorn 2.4 3.9 9.15 13.16 (94) Footscray 4.2 5.5 6.6 7.9 (51) Statistics Goal kickers Hawthorn: Browne 3 Law 2 Mort 2 Arthur 1 Cunningham 1 Edwards 1 Hill 1 Nalder 1 Peck 1Footscray: Whitten 3 Quarrell 2 Hobbs 1 McKellar 1 Attendance MCG attendance – 107,935 See also 1961 VFL season References 1961 Grand Final 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 Grand final Category:VFL/AFL Grand Finals Category:Hawthorn Football Club Category:Western Bulldogs