1933 VFL grand final

The 1933 VFL grand final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1933. It was the 35th annual grand final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1933 VFL season. The match, attended by 75,754 spectators, was won by South Melbourne by a margin of 42 points, marking that club's third premiership victory.^[1]

1933 VFL Grand Final
South Melbourne Richmond 9.17 (71) 4.5 (29)
1 2 3 4 SM 3.5 (23) 6.7 (43) 8.12 (60) 9.17 (71) RIC 0.2 (2) 2.3 (15) 3.3 (21) 4.5 (29)
Date	30 September 1933
Stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Attendance	75,754
Umpires	Bob Scott
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As of 2023, Richmond's total of 4.5 (29) remains the lowest score conceded by South Melbourne since 1919.^[2]

Bob Pratt kicked three goals for South Melbourne which saw him overtake Gordon Coventry as the 1933 season's leading goalkicker.

South Melbourne's premiership side was often referred to as the "foreign legion" due to the high number of players in the team who had been recruited from interstate.^[3] The majority of their recruits around that time came from Western Australia which earned South Melbourne the nickname "Swans".^[4]

This was the first of two successive years in which these teams met in the premiership decider. In the 1934 VFL Grand Final it was Richmond which emerged victorious. South Melbourne did not win another premiership for 72 years, eventually winning the 2005 AFL Grand Final — as the "Sydney Swans" — having relocated to Sydney in 1982.

Teams

S. Melbourne

Richmond

South Melbourne B: Jock McKenzie Hec McKay Jack Austin HB: Bill Faul Laurie Nash Hugh McLaughlin C: Harry Clarke Len Thomas John Bowe HF: Joe O'Meara Brighton Diggins Peter Reville F: Herbie Matthews Bob Pratt Ossie Bertram Foll: Jack Bisset (c) Dinny Kelleher Terry Brain Res: Bert Beard Coach: Jack Bisset

Richmond B: Martin Bolger Maurie Sheahan Kevin O'Neill HB: Jack Stenhouse Joe Murdoch Basil McCormack C: Stan Judkins Eric Zschech Alan Geddes HF: Horrie Farmer Thomas O'Halloran Jack Baggott F: Jack Dyer Jack Titus Bert Foster Foll: Percy Bentley (c) Gordon Strang Ray Martin Res: Jack Anderson Coach: Billy Schmidt

• Umpire – Bob Scott

Statistics

South Melbourne captain and coach, Jack Bisset

Score

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
South Melbourne	3.5	6.7	8.12	9.17	9.17 (71)
Richmond	0.2	2.3	3.3	4.5	4.5 (29)

Goal kickers

South Melbourne:

• Pratt 3
• Brain 2
• Diggins 2
• Reville 1
• Thomas 1

Richmond:

• Farmer 2
• Martin 1
• Strang 1

See also

• 1933 VFL season

References

1. "SOUTH MELBOURNE WINS RICHMOND EASILY DEFEATED". The Argus. Melbourne. 2 October 1933. p. 13. Retrieved 1 May 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
2. Australian Football; Sydney: Lowest Scores Conceded since 1919
3. "Lets look at Football with Hugh Buggy". The Argus. Melbourne. 9 May 1952. p. 10. Retrieved 1 May 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "Stuart Joynt's Sportlight". The Daily News (HOME ed.). Perth. 4 January 1940. p. 12. Retrieved 1 May 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

External links

• "Fullpointsfooty article on Sth Melbourne with info on their 1933 premiership". Archived from the original on 26 January 2012.