1933 VFL Grand Final

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The 1933 VFL Grand Final took place on September 30, 1933 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between VFL clubs Richmond and South Melbourne. The match was attended by a crowd of 75754 people and they saw South Melbourne win comfortably by 42 points. Bob Pratt kicked three goals for South Melbourne which saw him overtake Gordon Coventry as the 1933 season's leading goalkicker. It was the club's third premiership and they didn't taste premiership success again for another 72 years.

South Melbourne's premiership side was often referred to a the 'foreign legion' due to the high number of players in the team who had been recruited from interstate. The majority of their recruits around that time came from Western Australia which earned South Melbourne the nickname 'Swans'.

[edit] Teams

South Melbourne Captain-coach Jack Bisset

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Score

[edit] Goal kickers

South Melbourne:

• Pratt 3
• Brain 2
• Diggins 2
• Reville 1
• Thomas 1

Richmond:

• Farmer 2
• Martin 1
• Strang 1

[edit] External links

• Fullpointsfooty article on Sth Melbourne with info on their 1933 premiership

[edit] See also

• 1933 VFL season