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| Date | 7 September 1918 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 39,262 | |||||||||||||||
The1918 VFL Grand Final was anAustralian rules football game contested between theSouth Melbourne Football Club andCollingwood Football Club, held at theMelbourne Cricket Ground inMelbourne on 7 September 1918. It was the 21st annualGrand Final of theVictorian Football League, staged to determine thepremiers for the1918 VFL season. The match, attended by 39,262 spectators, was won by South Melbourne by a margin of 5 points, marking that club's second premiership victory.
This season was played under theamendedArgus system. South Melbourne was the minor premier, and Collingwood had finished second. The teams both qualified for this match by winning their semi-finals matches.
If Collingwood had won this match, South Melbourne would have had the right to challenge Collingwood to a rematch for the premiership on the following weekend, because South was the minor premier. The winner of that match would then have won the premiership.[1]
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