The 1955 VFL Grand Final was an
Australian rules football game
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contested between the
Melbourne Football Club and
Collingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club ...
, held at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground
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on 17 September 1955. It was the 58th annual
Grand Final
Primarily in Australian sports, a grand final (sometimes colloquially abbreviated to "grannie") is a game that decides a sports league's premiership (or championship) winning team, i.e. the conclusive game of a finals (or play-off) series. Sy ...
of the
Victorian Football League
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, staged to determine the
premiers for the
1955 VFL season. The match, attended by 88,053 spectators, was won by Melbourne by 28 points, marking that club's seventh premiership victory.
A scene from the game is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting ''The Game That Made Australia'', commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport.
[Australian Football League]
The Game That Made Australia
retrieved 19 September 2010
Teams
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*Umpire:
Harry Beitzel
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Statistics
Goalkickers
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Melbourne:
* N. Clarke 3
* I. Ridley 3
* C. Laidlaw 1
* R. McKenzie 1
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Collingwood:
* M. Weideman 2
* W. Jones 1
* B. Rose 1
* K. Smale 1
References
AFL Tables: 1955 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.
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