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1949 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1949 Victorian Football League season

Field	Value
year	1949
competition	VFL
home	[[File:Carlton 2018 AFL.png	50px]]

home_score	6.16 (52)
away	[[File:Essendon Football Club colours.svg	50px]]

away_score	18.17 (125)
home_abbr	CAR
away_abbr	ESS
home_qtr1	2.4 (16)
home_qtr2	2.10 (22)
home_qtr3	3.12 (30)
home_qtr4	6.16 (52)
away_qtr1	3.3 (21)
away_qtr2	7.7 (49)
away_qtr3	12.15 (87)
away_qtr4	18.17 (125)
date	24 September 1949
attendance	88,718
stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
last	1948
next	1950

The 1949 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 24 September 1949. It was the 52nd annual grand final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1949 VFL season. The match, attended by 88,718 spectators, was won by Essendon by 73 points, marking that club's ninth premiership victory, as well as Carlton's biggest Grand Final losing margin to date.

It was Essendon's fourth successive grand final appearance, having won the 1946 VFL Grand Final but finishing runners-up the previous two years. Star Bombers full-forward John Coleman, in his first season of VFL Football, kicked six goals for the game, the last of which brought up his 100th goal for the year.

Teams

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	backpocket1 = Ritchie Green	fullback = Ollie Grieve	Fred Davies]]	Jim Clark]]	centrehalfback = Bert Deacon	Jim Baird]]	Doug Williams]]	centre = Ern Henfry (c)	Arthur Hodgson]]	Jack Conley]]	Jack Howell]]	halfforwardflank2 = Ray Garby	forwardpocket1 = Geoff Brokenshire	Ken Baxter]]	Herb Turner]]	ruck = Ken Hands	ruckrover = Frank Bateman	rover = Jim Mooring	reserve1 = Bernie Baxter	reserve2 = Fred Stafford	coach = Percy Bentley		backpocket1 = Alan Thaw	fullback = Bill Brittingham	backpocket2 = Wally May	Norm McDonald]]	Roy McConnell]]	Les Gardiner]]	wing1 = Vic Fisher	Harold Lambert]]	Bob Bradley]]	Jack Jones]]	centrehalfforward = Ted Leehane	halfforwardflank2 = Ron McEwin	forwardpocket1 = Dick Reynolds (c)	John Coleman]]	forwardpocket2 = Keith Rawle	ruck = Bob Syme	Bob McClure]]	Bill Hutchison]]	reserve1 = Gordon Lane	George Hassell]]	coach = Dick Reynolds

Umpire – Jack McMurray

Scorecard

3 Rawle 2 Hutchison, Syme, Jones 1 McEwin, Leehane, D. Reynolds

References

1949 Grand final stats page on AFL Tables
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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