The 1950 VFL Grand Final was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

game contested between the

Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is a professional Australian rules football club. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their A ...

and

North Melbourne Football Club The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Kangaroos also ...

, held at the

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on 23 September 1950. It was the 53rd annual

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of the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

, staged to determine the

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for the

1950 VFL season The 1950 VFL season was the 54th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 22 April until 23 September, and comprised an ...

. The match, attended by 85,869 spectators , was won by Essendon by 38 points, marking that club's tenth premiership victory.

Background

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

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in the 1949 VFL Grand Final. Essendon's victory sent the retiring

Dick Reynolds Richard Sylvannus Reynolds (20 June 1915 – 2 September 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Reynolds is one of four footballers to have won three Brownlow ...

out in style, although he would come out of retirement for one final game in 1951.

Teams

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–

Jack McMurray, Jr. Jack McMurray Jr. (17 August 1915 – 20 May 2004) was a leading Australian rules football Umpire (Australian rules football), field umpire in the Australian Football League, Victorian Football League (VFL) in the 1940s and 1950s. He started ump ...

Statistics

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Background

Teams

Statistics

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