1899 VFL Grand Final

Fitzroy	South Melbourne
3.9 (27)	3.8 (26)

	1	2	3	4
FIT	0.1 (1)	2.4 (16)	2.6 (18)	3.9 (27)
SM	2.3 (15)	2.3 (15)	3.7 (25)	3.8 (26)

Date

16 September 1899

Stadium

Junction Oval

Attendance

4,823

← 1898

VFL Grand Final

1900 →

The 1899 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the St Kilda Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 16 September 1899. It was the 2nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1899 VFL season. The match, attended by 4,823 spectators, was won by Fitzroy by a margin of 1 point, becoming the first club to claim back-to-back VFL premierships.

Lead-up

Fitzroy had won the minor premiership in the 1899 season, while South Melbourne had finished sixth after the home-and-away season. In the sectional rounds, Fitzroy and South Melbourne each finished with records of 3–0 to qualify for the final.

Had South Melbourne won the match, it would not have immediately won the premiership; Fitzroy, as the minor premiers, would have had the right to challenge South to a rematch for the premiership on the following Saturday.^[1]

Summary

Due to an expanded finals system, South Melbourne had made their inaugural Grand Final despite finishing the home and away season in sixth position. Rain the wind favoured South Melbourne in the opening quarter and Harry Lampe slotted the first two goals of the match. Fitzroy then had the advantage the following quarter and goals to Mick Grace and Fred Fontaine had them ahead at half time. Charlie Colgan gave South Melbourne the lead with the only goal of the third term but Fitzroy finished strongly and Bill McSpeerin's goal 15 minutes into the final quarter gave Fitzroy the win.

Teams

Fitzroy
B:	Hugh McEwen	Geoff Moriarty	Ern Jenkins
HB:	Jack Deas	Pat Hickey	Alec Sloan (c)
C:	Eddie Drohan	Harry Clarke	Kelly Robinson
HF:	Pat Descrimes	Fred Fontaine	Bill Dalton
F:	Alf McDougall	Jim Grace	Bill Cleary
Foll:	Mick Grace	Bill Potter	Bill McSpeerin
Reserve(s):
Coach:

South Melbourne
B:	Frank O'Hara	Dave Adamson (c)	Warwick Armstrong
HB:	Albert Trim	Charlie Goding	George Davidson
C:	Jim O'Hara	Bill Windley	Herb Howson
HF:	Charlie James	Harry Lampe	Henri Jeanneret
F:	Bill Fraser	Charlie Colgan	Artie Henley
Foll:	Mick Pleass	Joe Garbutt	Bob Bryce
Reserve(s):
Coach:

Umpire - Ivo Crapp

Statistics

Goalkickers

Fitzroy:

Fontaine 1
M.Grace 1
McSpeerin 1

South Melbourne:

Lampe 2
Colgan 1

Attendance

Junction Oval crowd - 4823

References

↑ Rodgers, Stephen (1992), Every Game Ever Played: VFL/AFL Results, 1897–1991 (3rd ed.), Ringwood, VIC: Viking O'Neil

1899 VFL Grand Final statistics
Full Points Footy review of the Grand Final
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. ISBN 0-670-86814-0

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Fitzroy Football Club 1899 VFL premiers

Fitzroy 3.9 (27) defeated South Melbourne 3.8 (26), at the Junction Oval

Clarke Cleary Dalton Deas Descrimes Drohan Fontaine J.Grace M.Grace Hickey Jenkins McDougall McEwan McSpeerin Moriarty Potter Robinson Sloan (c)

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1899 VFL Grand Final

Lead-up

Summary

Teams

Statistics

Goalkickers

Attendance

References

See also