The 1935 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 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...

 and South Melbourne Football Club

Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...

, 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 5 October 1935. It was the 39th 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 1935 VFL season

1935 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1935.-Premiership season:In 1935, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man...

. The match, attended by 54,154 spectators, was won by Collingwood by a margin of 20 points, marking that club's tenth premiership victory.

On Grand Final eve, South Melbourne

Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...

's champion full-forward Bob Pratt

Bob Pratt

Harold Robert "Bob" Pratt was a former Australian rules footballer from Mitcham, Victoria.Pratt played with South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League from 1930–1939 and again in 1946, and with the Coburg Football Club in the Victorian Football Association from 1940 to 1941...

 was hit by a brick truck when alighting from a tram. He was replaced at full-forward by Roy Moore

Roy Moore (Australian footballer)

Roy Moore was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during the 1930s. His father Herbert Moore played a game for South Melbourne in their premiership year of 1909....

. Neither Moore nor Laurie Nash

Laurie Nash

Laurence John "Laurie" Nash was a Test cricketer and Australian rules footballer. An inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, Nash was a member of South Melbourne's 1933 premiership team, captained South Melbourne in 1937 and was the team's leading goal kicker in 1937 and 1945...

 at centre-half-forward were able to break free of their opponents (Charlie Dibbs

Charlie Dibbs

Charlie Dibbs was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Magpies in the Victorian Football League during the 1920s and 30s....

 and Jack Regan

Jack Regan

Jack Regan was an Australian rules footballer, who played 196 games with the Collingwood Football Club.Regan was known as The Prince of Fullbacks. He was regarded by many as the greatest fullback of all time but, controversially, was denied a position in the Australian Football League's Team of...

 respectively), helping Collingwood to win the match.

Teams

• Umpire
  Umpire (Australian rules football)
  An umpire is an official in the sport of Australian rules football.-Origins:Unlike many other codes of football, where the official is called a referee, in Australian Football, the officials borrow their title from the game of cricket, which is played on the same types of fields and was an...
  
   - Bob Scott
  Bob Scott (umpire)
  Robert H. "Bob" Scott was a leading Australian rules football field umpire in the Victorian Football League in the 1920s and 1930s....
  
  

Score

Team	1	2	3	4	Total
Collingwood Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...	1.3	6.6	8.10	11.12	11.12 (78)
South Melbourne Sydney Swans The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...	3.6	4.8	6.10	7.16	7.16 (58)

Goal kickers

Collingwood:

• G. Coventry 4
• Kyne 2
• Pannam 2
• H. Collier 1
• A. Collier 1
• Stackpole 1

South Melbourne:

• Davies 2
• Moore 2
• Nash 1
• Kelleher 1
• McEachem 1

See also

• 1935 VFL season
  1935 VFL season
  Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1935.-Premiership season:In 1935, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man...