The 1902 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in

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on 20 September 1902. It was the 5th 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. S ...

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

1902 VFL season The 1902 VFL season was the sixth season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs, ran from 3 May until 20 September, and comprised a 17 ...

. The match, attended by 35,202 spectators, was won by Collingwood by a margin of 33 points, marking that club's first premiership victory.

Teams

* Umpire - Henry "Ivo" Crapp

Statistics

Goalkickers

Collingwood: * T Lockwood 3 * T Rowell 3 * J Allan 1 * G Angus 1 * H Pears 1 Essendon: * F Hiskins 1 * P O'Loughlin 1 * A Thurgood 1 Collingwood 1902 premiers

Teams

Statistics

Goalkickers

See also