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1905 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1905 Victorian Football League season

Field	Value
competition	AFL
match_type	Grand Final
home	[[File:Fitzroy Football Club colours (1897 to 1907).svg	50px]]

home_abbr	FIT
away	[[File:Collingwood icon.svg	50px]]

away_abbr	COL
home_qtr1	0.3 (3)
home_qtr2	1.3 (9)
home_qtr3	4.6 (30)
home_qtr4	4.6 (30)
away_qtr1	0.1 (1)
away_qtr2	1.3 (9)
away_qtr3	2.4 (16)
away_qtr4	2.5 (17)
home_score	4.6 (30)
away_score	2.5 (17)
date	30 September 1905
stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
attendance	28,000
umpire	Henry "Ivo" Crapp
last	1904
next	1906

The 1905 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1905. It was the 8th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1905 VFL season. The match, attended by 28,000 spectators, was won by Fitzroy by a margin of 13 points, marking that club's fourth premiership victory and second in succession.

Background

the home-and-away season of 1905, Collingwood had dominated, losing only two games, one of them in the opening round to Fitzroy and the other to Essendon in the fourteenth round. Fitzroy had been on top until the return match between the two sides in the eighth round, but slumped a little during the latter half of the season with losses to Geelong and Carlton, plus a draw with South Melbourne. In the finals, however, Fitzroy had bounced back against Essendon, whilst Collingwood had failed badly against the Blues – losing by 46 points, which was a big margin at the time.

September 1905 was by far the coldest September ever known in Melbourne since records began in 1855. The average maximum temperature was 13.53 C and the average minimum 5.6 C as against averages up to 1996 of 17.08 C and 7.7 C. The result was that, although no rain actually fell during the game, the frequent showers earlier in the month were never able to evaporate before the match was played, leaving the MCG very heavy and soft all through. Combined with a biting cold wind and temperatures of around 11 C, this made conditions very difficult.

No goals were scored in the first quarter, and only one behind in the last. In the third quarter, however, Fitzroy's superior pace and power allowed it to kick three goals with the wind, which gave it a comfortable winning margin.

As in 1927 and 1960, the 1905 Grand Final saw the losing team kick the lowest score for the entire season. In fact, with the exception of the 1927 Grand Final and two games in 1906 and 1908, no V/AFL match has had a lower aggregate score than the 1905 Grand Final's 6.11 (47). Only one match since (Footscray versus Fitzroy in 1953) has had as few as seventeen aggregate scoring shots. Apart from the 1960 Grand Final, Collingwood has not kicked a lower score since 1901.

Result

1st	2nd	3rd	Final
Collingwood	0.1	1.3	2.4
Fitzroy	0.3	1.3	4.6

	Collingwood	Nash, Pears

Teams

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	backpocket1 = Wally Naismith	fullback = Geoff Moriarty	backpocket2 = Lou Barker	halfbackflank1 = Ern Jenkins	Jim Sharp]]	halfbackflank2 = Percy Sheehan	wing1 = Gilbert Barker	centre = Tammy Beauchamp	wing2 = Barclay Bailes	halfforwardflank1 = Gerald Brosnan (c)	centrehalfforward = Fred Fontaine	Joe Johnson]]	forwardpocket1 = Alf Wilkinson	fullforward = Jack McDonough	forwardpocket2 = Percy Trotter	ruck = Herbert Milne	Bill Walker]]	rover = Les Millis	reserve1 =	reserve2 =	coach = }}		backpocket1 = Matthew Fell	fullback = Bill Proudfoot	backpocket2 = Alf Dummett	Bob Rush]]	centrehalfback = Jack Monohan	Don Fraser]]	George Green]]	centre = Jock McHale	wing2 = Percy Gibb	Charlie Pannam]] (c)	Robert Nash]]	halfforwardflank2 = Harry Pears	George Angus]]	fullforward = Eddie Drohan	forwardpocket2 = Jack Incoll	ruck = Arthur Leach	Bob Strachan]]	rover = Dick Condon	reserve1 =	reserve2 =	coach = Dick Condon

Field umpire – Henry "Ivo" Crapp
Boundary umpire – Jack Davidson

References

''[[The Age]]'', October 2, 1905; p. 9
"Mean Maximum temperature for Melbourne Regional Office".
"Fitzroy Again Premiers" in ''[[The Age]]'', October 2, 1905; p. 9
[http://afltables.com/afl/teams/collingwood/gamer.html#02 Collingwood: Lowest Scores]

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