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1933 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1933 Victorian Football League season

Field	Value
year	1933
competition	VFL
home	[[File:South Melbourne Football Club Colours.svg	50px]]

home_score	9.17 (71)
away	[[File:Richmond Football Club colours (pre-2017).svg	50px]]

away_score	4.5 (29)
home_abbr	SM
away_abbr	RIC
home_qtr1	3.5 (23)
home_qtr2	6.7 (43)
home_qtr3	8.12 (60)
home_qtr4	9.17 (71)
away_qtr1	0.2 (2)
away_qtr2	2.3 (15)
away_qtr3	3.3 (21)
away_qtr4	4.5 (29)
date	30 September 1933
attendance	75,754
stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
umpire	Bob Scott
last	1932
next	1934

The 1933 VFL grand final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1933. It was the 35th annual grand final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1933 VFL season. The match, attended by 75,754 spectators, was won by South Melbourne by a margin of 42 points, marking that club's third premiership victory.

As of 2023, Richmond's total of 4.5 (29) remains the lowest score conceded by South Melbourne since 1919.

Bob Pratt kicked three goals for South Melbourne which saw him overtake Gordon Coventry as the 1933 season's leading goalkicker.

South Melbourne's premiership side was often referred to as the "foreign legion" due to the high number of players in the team who had been recruited from interstate. The majority of their recruits around that time came from Western Australia which earned South Melbourne the nickname "Swans".

This was the first of two successive years in which these teams met in the premiership decider. In the 1934 VFL Grand Final it was Richmond which emerged victorious. South Melbourne did not win another premiership for 72 years, eventually winning the 2005 AFL Grand Final — as the "Sydney Swans" — having relocated to Sydney in 1982.

Teams

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	Jock McKenzie]]	fullback = Hec McKay	Jack Austin]]	halfbackflank1 = Bill Faul	centrehalfback = Laurie Nash	Hugh McLaughlin]]	Harry Clarke]]	centre = Len Thomas	John Bowe]]	halfforwardflank1 = Joe O'Meara	centrehalfforward = Brighton Diggins	halfforwardflank2 = Peter Reville	forwardpocket1 = Herbie Matthews	fullforward = Bob Pratt	forwardpocket2 = Ossie Bertram	ruck = Jack Bisset (c)	ruckrover = Dinny Kelleher	rover = Terry Brain	reserve1 = Bert Beard	reserve2 =	coach = Jack Bisset}}		backpocket1 = Martin Bolger	fullback = Maurie Sheahan	Kevin O'Neill]]	halfbackflank1 = Jack Stenhouse	centrehalfback = Joe Murdoch	halfbackflank2 = Basil McCormack	wing1 = Stan Judkins	centre = Eric Zschech	wing2 = Allan Geddes	Horrie Farmer]]	Thomas O'Halloran]]	halfforwardflank2 = Jack Baggott	forwardpocket1 = Jack Dyer	fullforward = Jack Titus	forwardpocket2 = Bert Foster	ruck = Percy Bentley (c)	ruckrover = Gordon Strang	Ray Martin]]	Jack Anderson]]	reserve2 =	coach = Billy Schmidt}}

Umpire – Bob Scott

Statistics

South Melbourne captain and coach, [[Jack Bisset

Score

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
South Melbourne	3.5	6.7	8.12	9.17	9.17 (71)
Richmond	0.2	2.3	3.3	4.5	4.5 (29)

Goal kickers

South Melbourne:

Pratt 3
Brain 2
Diggins 2
Reville 1
Thomas 1

Richmond:

Farmer 2
Martin 1
Strang 1

References

(2 October 1933). "SOUTH MELBOURNE WINS RICHMOND EASILY DEFEATED.". [[The Argus (Melbourne).
''Australian Football''; [https://australianfootball.com/clubs/lowest_conceded/Sydney/11/season_from/1919/season_to/2017/league/138/competition/1/division/all/division_type/all/ground/all/round_type/all/limit/50/filter/show Sydney: Lowest Scores Conceded since 1919]
(9 May 1952). "Lets look at Football with Hugh Buggy". [[The Argus (Melbourne).
(4 January 1940). "Stuart Joynt's Sportlight.". [[Daily News (Perth, Western Australia).

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