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1900 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1900 Victorian Football League season

Field	Value
year	1900
competition	VFL
match_type	Grand Final
home	[[File:Melbourne Football Club colours (1900).svg	50px]]

home_abbr	MEL
away	[[File:Fitzroy Football Club colours (1897 to 1907).svg	50px]]

away_abbr	FIT
home_qtr1	2.3 (15)
home_qtr2	2.5 (17)
home_qtr3	4.8 (32)
home_qtr4	4.10 (34)
away_qtr1	1.4 (10)
away_qtr2	2.7 (19)
away_qtr3	2.7 (19)
away_qtr4	3.12 (30)
home_score	4.10 (34)
away_score	3.12 (30)
date	22 September 1900
stadium	East Melbourne Cricket Ground
attendance	20,181
hall_of_fame	1. Vic Cumberland (1996)
last	1899
next	1901

The 1900 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 22 September 1900. It was the 3rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1900 VFL season. The match, attended by 20,181 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 4 points.

Lead-up

Although Melbourne only won six of its fourteen home-and-away fixtures to finish sixth on the ladder, it won its sectional round-robin and defeated the other sectional winner, , in the semi-final for the right to face the minor premiers, Fitzroy, in the Grand Final; Fitzroy had won the previous two premierships and was aiming for a third premiership in a row.

The winner of this match would win the premiership.

Teams

Arthur Sowden, and Bill Bowe were unable to play for the Melbourne team, due to injury, and Eric Gardner was unavailable.

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Umpire – Henry "Ivo" Crapp

Statistics

Goalkickers

Melbourne:

Geddes 1
Leith 1
Ryan 1
Wardill 1

Fitzroy:

Grace 2
Barker 1

Attendance

Crowd – 20,181

Footnotes

References

1900 VFL Grand Final statistics
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.

References

[http://demonwiki.org/Grand+Final+1900 Grand Final 1900, ''Demonwiki''.]
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9557130 Football, ''The Argus'', (Monday, 24 September 1900), p.7.]

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