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1957 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1957 Victorian Football League season

Field	Value
year	1957
competition	VFL
home	[[File:Melbourne Football Club Colours.svg	50px]]

home_score	17.14 (116)
away	[[File:Essendon Football Club colours.svg	50px]]

away_score	7.13 (55)
home_abbr	MEL
away_abbr	ESS
home_qtr1	6.2 (38)
home_qtr2	9.9 (63)
home_qtr3	12.11 (83)
home_qtr4	17.14 (116)
away_qtr1	2.3 (15)
away_qtr2	4.4 (28)
away_qtr3	7.8 (50)
away_qtr4	7.13 (55)
date	21 September 1957
attendance	100,324
stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
last	1956
next	1958

The 1957 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 21 September 1957. It was the 60th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1957 VFL season. The match, attended by 100,324 spectators, was won by Melbourne by 61 points, marking that club's ninth premiership victory.

This was Melbourne's fourth successive Grand Final appearance and third successive premiership. Ron Barassi starred for the Demons with five goals, four of them in the first half to put the game out of Essendon's reach. Melbourne's coach Norm Smith had previously participated in successive premierships as a player, from 1939 to 1941.

Teams

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	John Beckwith]] (c)	fullback = Peter Marquis	backpocket2 = Dick Fenton-Smith	Don Williams]]	John Lord]]	halfbackflank2 = Keith Carroll	Ian McLean]]	centre = Laurie Mithen	Brian Dixon]]	halfforwardflank1 = Geoff Tunbridge	Trevor Johnson]]	halfforwardflank2 = Geoff Case	forwardpocket1 = Ron Barassi	fullforward = Athol Webb	forwardpocket2 = Ian Ridley	Bob Johnson]]	Colin Wilson]]	Frank Adams]]	reserve1 = Ian Thorogood	reserve2 = Peter Brenchley	coach = Norm Smith}}		Bob Suter]]	fullback = Jack Knowles	backpocket2 = Mal Pascoe	halfbackflank1 = Bob Shearman	centrehalfback = Jeff Gamble	halfbackflank2 = John Towner	wing1 = Reg Burgess	Jack Clarke]]	wing2 = Greg Sewell	halfforwardflank1 = Col Hebbard	Robert Fox]]	halfforwardflank2 = Stan Booth	forwardpocket1 = Geoff Leek	Fred Gallagher]]	John Birt]]	John Gill]]	Hugh Mitchell]]	Bill Hutchison]] (c)	Leo Maloney]]	Jim Heenan]]	coach = Dick Reynolds}}

Umpire – Allan Nash

Statistics

Goalkickers

Attendance

MCG crowd – 100,324

References

1957 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.

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