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Fitzroy had beaten Essendon by 29 points in the third match of their round-robin Sectional matches. [ 19 ] Both teams had great difficulty playing football in the appalling ground conditions—as evidenced by the low scores—and the tough, bustling Fitzroy team handled the conditions far better than the Essendon team that had hoped to spread ...
Garry Foulds (born 13 May 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 300 games for the Essendon Football Club between 1974 and 1989. Described as "a ball magnet", Foulds spent the majority of his career playing on the wing or floating across the half-back line.
The 1898 VFL season was the second season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs and ran from 14 May to 24 September, comprising a 14-round home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring all eight clubs.
The 1923 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 20 October 1923. It was the 26th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1923 VFL season. The match ...
The Australian Football League finals series, more generally known as the AFL finals, and known from 1897 until 1989 as the Victorian Football League finals series or VFL finals, is a playoff tournament held at the end of each AFL season to determine the premier.
Essendon, having previously defeated both Fitzroy (by 40 points) and South Melbourne (by 33 points), clinched the premiership by means of a 20-point loss to Richmond. With the Tigers having already lost a match to Fitzroy by a substantial margin, the Dons were declared premiers by virtue of their superior percentage, meaning that Essendon again ...
When the VFL was initially established at the end of 1896, it immediately announced that a finals series would be played. However, there were two other announcements of different finals formats, before the system used was ultimately decided upon late in the season.
Fitzroy vs South Melbourne 1899 Highest score – 1st Qtr: 8.4 (52) by Hawthorn vs Geelong 1989, by Carlton vs Richmond 1972 Highest score – 2nd Qtr: 10.2 (62) by Carlton vs Richmond 1972 Highest score – 3rd Qtr: 11.8 (74) by Essendon vs Melbourne 1946 Highest score – 4th Qtr: 11.3 (69) by Essendon vs Hawthorn 1985 Biggest comeback ...