1925 VFL Grand Final
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| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Final |
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| Geelong Geelong Football Club The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also... |
3.2 | 7.8 | 10.13 | 10.19 (79) |
| Collingwood Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League... |
2.5 | 4.9 | 6.12 | 9.15 (69) |
The 1925 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
game contested between the Geelong Football Club
Geelong Football Club
The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...
and Collingwood Football Club
Collingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...
in Melbourne
Melbourne
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on 10 October 1925. It was the 29th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
, staged to determine the premiers for the 1925 VFL season
1925 VFL season
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1925.-New Teams:In 1915, and from 1919 to 1924, there were nine teams in the VFL competition...
. The match, attended by 64,288 spectators, was won by Geelong by a margin of 10 points, marking that club's first premiership victory.
Geelong, competing in their first ever VFL Grand Final, had been the best side all season. They had lost just two games on their way to the minor premiership and at one stage put together a sequence of 12 successive wins. Collingwood on the other hand had only made the finals on percentage, a spot only cemented when they defeated South Melbourne by 65 points in the final round.
Geelong outscored Collingwood in each of the first three quarters to open up a 25 point lead going into the final term. Collingwood finished strongly but Geelong held on to claim to first VFL premiership. Captain-coach Cliff Rankin
Cliff Rankin
Cliff Rankin is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League from 1915 to 1928....
starred with five goals.
Tom Fitzmaurice
Tom Fitzmaurice
Tom Fitzmaurice was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League .A brilliant centre halfback, he commenced his career with Essendon Football Club 1918. Transferred to Sydney in 1921 with his employment, Fitzmaurice played the next two seasons in the local competition and...
had extra reason to celebrate, it was his 100th VFL match and his third successive premiership, having won flags in the previous two seasons at Essendon.
Teams
- Umpire - Jack McMurray, Sr.Jack McMurray, Sr.Jack McMurray Senior was a leading Australian rules football field umpire in the Victorian Football League in the early twentieth century.- Footballer :McMurray was born in Port Melbourne, Victoria in 1889....
Goalkickers
Geelong:
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Collingwood:
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Aftermath
In what was Geelong's first VFL premiership and first premiership since the VFAVictorian Football League
The Victorian Football League which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association , taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria The Victorian Football League (VFL) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association...
title in 1886, The Age
The Age
The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...
reported:
The scene in the Geelong dressing-room was remarkable. The players who had succeeded, where teams for 29 years had failed, seemed to be the coolest men there. They had just come out of a strenuous contest, and were besieged by enthusiastic supporters, but they accepted the plaudits with becoming modesty. Not one of them had been in a premiership team, save Tom Fitzmaurice
Tom Fitzmaurice
Tom Fitzmaurice was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League .A brilliant centre halfback, he commenced his career with Essendon Football Club 1918. Transferred to Sydney in 1921 with his employment, Fitzmaurice played the next two seasons in the local competition and...
, who played with Essendon in their last two premierships, and not one of them was alive when Geelong last gained the honours.
See also
- 1925 VFL season1925 VFL seasonResults and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1925.-New Teams:In 1915, and from 1919 to 1924, there were nine teams in the VFL competition...