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It was the first time Carlton had held the outright premiership lead (after drawing level with Collingwood for the lead in 1981). [44] Carlton won back-to-back premierships in 1981–82. It was the first time the club had achieved the feat since 1914–15, and the first time any team had achieved the feat since Richmond in 1973–74.
Pages in category "Carlton Football Club premiership players" The following 181 pages are in this category, out of 181 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The most famous Grand Final of all time took place in 1970 before a record crowd of 121,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground who watched Carlton take on Collingwood. At half-time, the Blues were 44 points behind (nearly 8 goals) and the game seemed all but over, with a victory seeming a certainty for mighty Collingwood.
This is a list of Carlton Football Club players who have made one or more appearance in the Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990. Carlton was one of the foundation clubs for the inaugural VFL season in 1897.
After six seasons, Bosustow was recruited to Carlton where he played in the 1981, 1982 and 1983 VFL seasons. After being suspended for four matches at the end of the 1983 season, [ 1 ] Bosustow left Carlton to return to the Demons where he played in the WAFL from 1984 until his retirement from the game in 1987.
He was a premiership player in 1979, 1981 and 1982. In total, Buckley played 164 games for 146 goals between 1976 and 1990 . On 21 June 1983, when he was 23 years old, Buckley collided with a taxi, killing one of the occupants—passenger Peter Cunningham, a 42-year-old bookmaker's clerk—and injuring others. [ 1 ]
The previous three premierships had been won by either Richmond or Carlton; Richmond in 1980 and Carlton in 1979 and 1981, all against Collingwood.. The Tigers won eleven successive matches early in the 1982 VFL season and, after a slump as injuries took toll late on the home-and-away rounds, returned to their most devastating form in the finals.
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