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Date | 27 September 1941 | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 77,746 | |||||||||||||||
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The 1941 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket GroundinMelbourne on 27 September 1941. It was the 43rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1940 VFL season. The match, attended by 79,687 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 29 points, marking that club's fifth premiership victory.
By claiming their third successive premiership, Melbourne joined Carlton and Collingwood as the only clubs to achieve the feat.
Melbourne's team was understrength as they had been depleted by the war. Syd Anderson, Harold Ball, Ron Barassi and Keith Truscott, who were members of the previous season's premiership, missed the Grand Final as they were serving their country and all died in World War II.
There were sets of brothers on each team, with the Cordner brothers of Melbourne taking on the Reynolds brothers of Essendon.
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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 |