1941 VFL Grand Final

Melbourne	Essendon
19.13 (127)	13.20 (98)

	1	2	3	4
MEL	6.6	11.9	14.11	19.13 (127)
ESS	1.1	2.6	6.12	13.20 (98)

Date

27 September 1941

Stadium

Melbourne Cricket Ground

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VFL Grand Final

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 45th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1940 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 would all lose their lives.

There were sets of brothers on each team, with the Cordner brothers of Melbourne taking on the Reynolds brothers of Essendon.

Teams

Don Cordner

Melbourne
B:	Richie Emselle	Shane McGrath	Don Cordner
HB:	Col McLean	Ted Cordner	Wally Lock
C:	Syd Anderson	Allan La Fontaine (c)	Stan Heal
HF:	Maurie Gibb	Ron Baggott	Ray Wartman
F:	Jack O'Keefe	Norm Smith	Gerry Daly
Foll:	Jack Mueller	Adrian Dullard	Percy Beames
Reserve(s):	Warren Lewis
Coach:	Frank 'Checker' Hughes

Essendon
B:	Elton Plummer	Cec Ruddell	Fred Green
HB:	Bob Flanigan	Wally Buttsworth	Allan Hird
C:	Ernie Coward	Harold Lambert	Jack Caesar
HF:	Gordon Lane	Les Griggs	Murray Exelby
F:	Jack Cassin	Tom Reynolds	Ted Bryce
Foll:	Hugh Torney	Gordon Abbott	Dick Reynolds (c)
Reserve(s):	Ted Regan
Coach:	Dick Reynolds

Statistics

Goalkickers

Melbourne

Beames 6
Mueller 3
Smith 3
Wartman 2
Anderson 1
Daly 1
Dullard 1
Gibb 1
O'Keefe 1

Essendon

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. ISBN 0-670-86814-0

Victorian/Australian Football League Grand Finals

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Melbourne Football Club 1941 VFL premiers

Melbourne 19.13 (127) defeated Essendon 13.20 (98), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Heal 4. Smith 9. Emselle 10. Gibb 11. Lewis 12. Mueller 15. Baggott 17. La Fontaine (c) 18. Lock 21. D. Cordner 22. McGrath 23. Wartman 24. Beames 25. McLean 27. Daly 28. T. Cordner 29. O'Keefe 34. Dullard 36. Anderson

Coach: Hughes

Melbourne Football Club

History Club honours Current squad Players Coaches Captains Honour board Awards Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal Leading goalkickers Captain: Nathan Jones Coach: Simon Goodwin Nickname: Demons

Home grounds	Melbourne Cricket Ground (1859–1915; 1919–41; 1946–present) Friendly Societies' Ground (1885–90) Motordrome (1932) Punt Road Oval (1942–46)

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Essendon Football Club

History Premierships and records Players Captains Coaches Awards W. S. Crichton Medal Leading goalkickers Captain: Jobe Watson Coach: John Worsfold Nickname: Bombers

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1941 VFL Grand Final

Teams

Statistics

Goalkickers

References

See also