1936 VFL Grand Final

The 1936 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 2 October 1936. It was the 40th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1936 VFL season. The match, attended by 74,091 spectators, was won by Collingwood by a margin of 11 points, marking that club's eleventh premiership victory.

This was the second successive year in which Collingwood and South Melbourne met in a premiership decider, with Collingwood having won the 1935 VFL Grand Final. South Melbourne had contested all of the previous four Grand Finals but had emerged victorious only once, winning the 1933 VFL Grand Final.

On the eve of the finals series star Collingwood full-forward Gordon Coventry was suspended for eight weeks for striking Richmond's Joe Murdoch. As it was the first time Coventry had been reported in seventeen seasons of VFL football, there was surprise at the severity of the suspension.^[1] Coventry announced his retirement, although he returned to Collingwood the next year.^[1]

Teams

Statistics

Score

Goal kickers

Collingwood:

• Pannam 5
• Todd 4
• Knight 1
• Kyne 1

South Melbourne:

• Pratt 3
• Moore 2
• Johnson 2
• Nash 1
• Robertson 1
• Evans 1

See also

• 1936 VFL season

References