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Grand final of the 1950 Victorian Football League season

1950 VFL Grand Final

Essendon	North Melbourne
13.14 (92)	7.12 (54)

	1	2	3	4
ESS	7.3 (45)	7.6 (48)	10.11 (71)	13.14 (92)
NM	4.0 (24)	5.5 (35)	7.9 (51)	7.12 (54)

Date

23 September 1950

Stadium

Melbourne Cricket Ground

Attendance

85,869

← 1949

VFL Grand Final

1951 →

The 1950 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 23 September 1950. It was the 53rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1950 VFL season. The match, attended by 85,869 spectators , was won by Essendon by 38 points, marking that club's tenth premiership victory.

Background

Main article: 1950 VFL season Further information: 1950 VFL finals series

This was North Melbourne's first-ever VFL Grand Final, while Essendon were competing in their fifth successive premiership decider. They were the reigning premiers, having defeated Carlton in the 1949 VFL Grand Final. Essendon's victory sent the retiring Dick Reynolds out in style, although he would come out of retirement for one final game in 1951.

Teams

Essendon

N. Melbourne

Essendon
B:	Les Gardiner	Bill Brittingham	Wally May
HB:	Harold Lambert	Roy McConnell	Norm McDonald
C:	Chris Lambert	Alan Dale	Jack Collins
HF:	Jack Jones	Bill Snell	Albert Harper
F:	Dick Reynolds (c)	John Coleman	Ron McEwin
Foll:	Bob McClure	Bob Syme	Bill Hutchison
Res:	Ted Leehane	Noel Allanson
Coach:	Dick Reynolds

North Melbourne
B:	Pat Kelly	Jock McCorkell	John Reeves
HB:	Ted Jarrard	Reg Ryan	Les Reeves
C:	Keith McKenzie	Kevin Dynon	Les Mogg
HF:	Gerald Marchesi	Frank Jeeves	Don Condon
F:	Bob Brooker	Jock Spencer	Tim Robb
Foll:	Col Thornton	Les Foote (c)	Jim Malone
Res:	Vic Lawrence	Jack Hedley
Coach:	Wally Carter

Umpire – Jack McMurray, Jr.

Statistics

Goalkickers

Essendon

Coleman 4
Reynolds 2
Syme 2
Dale 1
Harper 1
Hutchison 1
McEwin 1
Snell 1

North Melbourne

Spencer 3
Robb 2
Brooker 1
Dynon 1

Notes

This is the official attendance. Some other sources provide an attendance number of 87,601

References

Atkinson & Atkinson (2009), p. 204

Bibliography

Atkinson, Graeme; Atkinson, Brant (2009). The Complete Book of AFL Finals (4th ed.). The Five Mile Press. ISBN 9781742112756.
Main, Jim (2006). When it matters most : the Norm Smith Medallist and best on ground in every Grand Final. Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. ISBN 1920910689.
Ross, John, ed. (1996). 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. Ringwood, Victoria: Viking. ISBN 0-670-86814-0.

External links

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Essendon 13.14 (92) defeated North Melbourne 7.12 (54), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
2. Collins 3. Reynolds (c) 4. McDonald 7. Hutchison 8. Harper 9. Leehane 10. Coleman 11. McEwin 12. May 14. C. Lambert 15. Dale 17. H. Lambert 18. Gardiner 22. Snell 23. Brittingham 24. Jones 25. McConnell 26. Syme 31. McClure 33. Allanson
Coach: Reynolds

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AFL co-captains: Jy Simpkin / Luke McDonald

AFLW coach: Darren Crocker
AFLW captain: Emma Kearney

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AFLW (5)	Arden Street Oval (2020–) Bellerive Oval (2022–) Chirnside Park (2019) North Hobart Oval (2019–2022) York Park (2019–)

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VFL/AFL (4)	1975 1977 1996 1999
AFLW (1)	2024

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