| 1963 VFL Grand Final | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 5 October 1963 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 101,209 | |||||||||||||||
The1963 VFL Grand Final was anAustralian rules football game contested between theGeelong Football Club andHawthorn Football Club, held at theMelbourne Cricket Ground inMelbourne on 5 October 1963. It was the 66th annualGrand Final of theVictorian Football League, staged to determine thepremiers for the1963 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.
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 in1953 and last won in1952. The Hawks were contesting their second VFL Grand final, having beatenFootscray to win their maiden premiership in1961. For the Cats, this was the third consecutive game they were playing against Hawthorn, having met atGlenferrie 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, coachBob 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 coachJohn 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.[1]
     Geelong |   Hawthorn |
Umpire –Jeff Crouch
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| Saturday, 5 October 2:50pm | Hawthorn | def. by | Geelong | MCG (crowd: 101,209) | Report |
| 3.6 (24) 5.6 (36) 8.9 (57) 8.12 (60) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 3.3 (21) 7.10 (52) 9.13 (67) 15.19 (109) | Umpires:Crouch Television broadcast:Seven Network | ||
| Peck 3 Woodley, Law, Coverdale, Mort, Fisher 1 | Goals | 3Wooller, Hynes 2 Yeates,Goggin, Rice,A Lord 1Wade | |||
| Arthur, Nalder, Coverdale, Mort, Young, Youren, P Hay, Law, Fisher | Best | Farmer, Devine, Scott,Goggin, Walker, West, Watts, Hynes | |||
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