1934 VFL Grand Final

Team	1	2	3	Final
Richmond	4.4	10.8	16.11	19.14 (128)
South Melbourne	4.3	6.5	6.11	12.17 (89)

The 1934 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 13 October 1934. It was the 38th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1934 VFL season. The match, attended by 65,335 spectators, was won by Richmond by a margin of 39 points, marking that club's fourth premiership victory.

This was the second successive year in which the two teams met in the premiership decider, with South Melbourne having won the 1933 VFL Grand Final. It was also the seventh occasion in eight years that Richmond had appeared in a Grand Final. It had won just one of those earlier contests, in 1932.

Teams

Dick Harris

Richmond
B:	Martin Bolger	Maurie Sheahan	Kevin O'Neill
HB:	Jack Baggott	Gordon Strang	Basil McCormack
C:	Stan Judkins	Eric Zschech	Alan Geddes
HF:	Thomas O'Halloran	David Baxter	Joe Murdoch
F:	Bert Foster	Jack Titus	Dick Harris
Foll:	Percy Bentley (c)	Jack Dyer	Ray Martin
Reserve(s):	Horace Edmonds
Coach:

South Melbourne
B:	Hec McKay	Jack Austin	Jock McKenzie
HB:	Bill Faul	Lin Richards	Hugh McLaughlin
C:	Harry Clarke	Len Thomas	Herbie Matthews
HF:	Peter Reville	Laurie Nash	Jim O'Meara
F:	Brighton Diggins	Bob Pratt	Ossie Bertram
Foll:	Jack Bissett (c)	Dinny Kelleher	Terry Brain
Reserve(s):	Wilbur Harris
Coach:	Jack Bissett

Umpire – Bob Scott

Statistics

Goalkickers

Richmond:

Titus 6
Harris 3
O'Halloran 3
Bentley 2
Martin 2
Baxter 1
Murdoch 1
Zschech 1

South Melbourne:

Nash 6
Pratt 2
Bertram 1
Brain 1
Diggins 1
O'Meara 1

References

AFL Tables: 1934 Grand Final
The Official statistical history of the AFL 2004
Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0

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Richmond Football Club 1934 VFL premiers

Richmond 19.14 (128) defeated South Melbourne 12.17 (89), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

1. Bentley (c) 2. Baxter 4. Sheahan 6. Judkins 7. Edmonds 8. Geddes 9. Bolger 9. McCormack 11. Foster 12. Titus 13. Murdoch 14. Baggott 16. O'Neil 17. Dyer 18. O'Halloran 20. Harris 23. Strang 25. Zschech 27. Martin

Coach: Bentley

Richmond Football Club

History Seasons Records Current squad Players Captains Coaches Individual awards Jack Dyer Medal Michael Roach Medal Captain: Trent Cotchin Coach: Damien Hardwick Nickname: Tigers

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1934 VFL Grand Final

Teams

Statistics

Goalkickers

References

See also