1938 VFL Grand Final

1938 VFL Grand Final
15.10 (100)	13.7 (85)
Date	24 September 1938
Stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Attendance	96,486

The 1938 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1938. It was the 42nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1938 VFL season. The match was won by Carlton by a margin of 15 points, marking that club's sixth premiership victory and first since winning the 1915 VFL Grand Final.

This Grand Final was attended by 96,486 spectators, setting a new record as the largest crowd to have witnessed a premiership decider in VFL Grand Final history, and breaking the previous year's record by eight thousand. The ground was not large enough to accommodate the crowd comfortably – the Health Department had previously advised 84,000 as a maximum capacity – and the fence in front of the scoreboard collapsed under the strain before the game, resulting in some spectators watching the game from between the fence and the boundary line.[1] The record crowd stood for 18 years and remained the record for the MCG under its configuration at the time; the record was broken by the attendance at the 1956 VFL Grand Final after the construction of the Olympic Stand that year.

Teams

Carlton

Collingwood

Carlton
B:	Don McIntyre	Frank Gill	Jim Park
HB:	Frank Anderson	Jim Francis	Bob Chitty
C:	Jack Carney	Mickey Crisp	Bob Green
HF:	Paul Schmidt	Jack Wrout	Harry Vallence
F:	Rod McLean	Ken Baxter	Mick Price
Foll:	Brighton Diggins	Harry Hollingshead	Jack Hale
Res:	Charlie McInnes
Coach:	Brighton Diggins

Collingwood
B:	Don Balfour	Jack Regan	Bervyn Woods
HB:	Jack Ross	Marcus Boyall	Fred Froude
C:	Ron Dowling	Marcus Whelan	Leo Morgan
HF:	Phonse Kyne	Gordon Hocking	Vin Doherty
F:	Jack Knight	Ron Todd	Alby Pannam
Foll:	Albert Collier (c)	Alan Williams	Des Fothergill
Res:	Jack Carmody
Coach:	Jock McHale

Umpire - Bill Blackburn

Statistics

Goalkickers

Carlton:

J Wrout 4
K Baxter 3
J Hale 2
P Schmidt 2
M Crisp 1
B Green 1
M Price 1
H Vallence 1

Collingwood:

D Fothergill 4
R Todd 3
V Doherty 2
A Pannam 2
J Knight 1
P Kyne 1

References

"96,834 at football – new records". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 26 September 1938. p. 22.

AFL Tables: 1938 Grand Final

External links

Games you may have missed: State Library of Victoria Australian Rules research guide

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[1] "96,834 at football – new records". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 26 September 1938. p. 22.

Carlton Football Club 1938 VFL premiers
Carlton 15.10 (100) defeated Collingwood 13.7 (85), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1. Anderson 2. McIntyre 4. Baxter 5. Diggins (c) 6. Chitty 7. Carney 10. Francis 11. Hale 12. Crisp 14. McLean 17. Hollingshead 21. Gill 22. Vallence 23. Schmidt 26. Park 28. Wrout 30. Price 31. McInnes 32. Green
Coach: Diggins

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