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1963 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1963 Victorian Football League season

Field	Value
year	1963
competition	VFL
home	[[File:Geelong Football Club Colours.svg	50px]]

home_score	15.19 (109)
away	[[File:Hawthorn Football Club Colours.svg	50px]]

away_score	8.12 (60)
home_abbr	GEE
away_abbr	HAW
home_qtr1	3.3 (21)
home_qtr2	7.10 (52)
home_qtr3	9.13 (67)
home_qtr4	15.19 (109)
away_qtr1	3.6 (24)
away_qtr2	5.6 (36)
away_qtr3	8.9 (57)
away_qtr4	8.12 (60)
date	5 October 1963
attendance	101,209
stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
last	1962
next	1964

The 1963 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 5 October 1963. It was the 66th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1963 VFL season. The match, attended by 101,209 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 49 points, marking that club's sixth premiership victory.

Background

Main article: 1963 VFL season

Hawthorn were minor premiers as a result of their superior percentage, as both clubs had finished the home and away season with 13 wins and a draw.

Geelong was contesting its eighth VFL Grand final and chasing its sixth premiership, having previously contested in 1953 and last won in 1952. The Hawks were contesting their second VFL Grand final, having beaten to win their maiden premiership in 1961. For the Cats, this was the third consecutive game they were playing against Hawthorn, having met at Glenferrie Oval in the final round of the home-and-away season, then in the Second Semi-final two weeks later.

After the Cats' important win at Glenferrie, coach Bob Davis, when asked by a reporter what he thought of Hawthorn, called them "the roughest, dirtiest side that [he] had ever seen" and that "Any time they want to play football, we'll give them a hiding". Davis later admitted he didn't care what he said at the time, and Hawthorn coach John Kennedy Sr. took offence at Davis' comments about dirty play, stating that while his team certainly played a vigorous brand of football, he never asked players to deliberately "fix up" opposition players.

Teams

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	Ian Scott]]	Roy West]]	John Watts]]	John Devine]]	Peter Walker]]	halfbackflank2 = Stewart Lord	wing1 = Hugh Routley	centre = Alistair Lord	John Brown]]	Gordon Hynes]]	centrehalfforward = Fred Wooller (c)	halfforwardflank2 = John Sharrock	forwardpocket1 = John Yeates	fullforward = Doug Wade	forwardpocket2 = Colin Rice	ruck = Graham Farmer	ruckrover = Paul Vinar	rover = Bill Goggin	reserve1 = Ken Goodland	reserve2 = Tony Polinelli	Bob Davis]]}}		backpocket1 = David Parkin	Phil Hay]]	Graham Cooper]]	halfbackflank1 = Sted Hay	Garry Young]]	halfbackflank2 = Cam McPherson	John Fisher]]	centre = Ron Nalder	wing2 = Colin Youren	halfforwardflank1 = Graham Arthur (c)	centrehalfforward = Kevin Coverdale	halfforwardflank2 = Ian Mort	forwardpocket1 = Rodney Olsson	John Peck]]	forwardpocket2 = David Albiston	ruck = Ken Beck	ruckrover = Allan Woodley	rover = Ian Law	reserve1 = Peter Lyon	reserve2 = Kevin Connell	John Kennedy]]}}

Umpire – Jeff Crouch

Scorecard

Woodley, Law, Coverdale, Mort, Fisher 1 2 Yeates, Goggin, Rice, A Lord 1 Wade

Gate takings £31,216

References

Bibliography

References

Hawke (2014), p. 189

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