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Date | 7 September 1901 | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Lake Oval | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 30,000 | |||||||||||||||
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Australian Football Hall of Fame | Albert Thurgood (1996) Charlie Pannam (1996) | |||||||||||||||
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The 1901 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Lake OvalinMelbourne on 7 September 1901. It was the 4th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1901 VFL season. The match, attended by 30,031 spectators, was won by Essendon by a margin of 27 points.
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Essendon 6.7 (43) defeated Collingwood 2.4 (16), at the Lake Oval | |
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Essendon did not participate in the 1916 and 1917 VFL seasons due to World War I (indicated in grey) |
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Known as the Victorian Football League from 1897–1989; no grand finals were held in 1897 and 1924 |