| 1936 VFL Grand Final | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 3 October 1936 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 74,091 | |||||||||||||||
The1936 VFL Grand Final was anAustralian rules football game contested between theCollingwood Football Club andSouth Melbourne Football Club at theMelbourne Cricket Ground on 3 October 1936. It was the 38th annualGrand Final of theVictorian Football League, staged to determine thepremiers for the1936 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 the1935 VFL Grand Final. South Melbourne had contested all of the previous four Grand Finals but had emerged victorious only once, winning the1933 VFL Grand Final.
On the eve of the finals series star Collingwood full-forwardGordon Coventry was suspended for eight weeks for strikingRichmond'sJoe 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. Coventry announced his retirement,[1] but returned, after much persuasion, for one more season.
    Collingwood |   S. Melbourne |
Collingwood opened brilliantly with a goal to Knight one minute after the opening bounce. Todd added another and a flurry of misses followed. At this stage, Collingwood was dominating the play, but then Nash finally scored South Melbourne's first goal before Robertson kicked their second.[2]
Collingwood would continue to feature prominently in the finals, but would lose the next two Grand Finals, toGeelong andCarlton respectively. They would not be premiers again until1953. Having participated in the last four Grand Finals, South Melbourne would not participate in another season decider until the infamous1945 bloodbath, and would have to wait until2005, by which time the club had become known as theSydney Swans, to taste premiership success.
| Collingwood vsSouth Melbourne | ||||
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| 2:30pm | ||||
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Final |
| Collingwood | 3.6 (24) | 7.16 (58) | 8.19 (67) | 11.23 (89) |
| South Melbourne | 3.4 (22) | 5.7 (37) | 8.12 (60) | 10.18 (78) |
| Venue: | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||
| Date and time: | 3 October 1936 | |||
| Attendance: | 74,091 | |||
| Umpires: | Blackburn | |||
| Goal scorers: | Collingwood | 5:Pannam 4:Todd 1:Knight,Kyne | ||
| South Melbourne | 3:Pratt 2:Johnson,Moore 1:Nash,Robertson,Evans | |||
| Best: | Collingwood | Pannam, Whelan, Carmody, Kyne, Todd, Fraser, Doherty, Ross, Regan[3] | ||
| South Melbourne | Robertson, Cleary, Hillis, Richards, Nash, Evans, Moore[4] | |||
| Reports: | nil | |||
| Injuries: | nil | |||
