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(Redirected from 1906 VFL Grand Final) Grand final of the 1906 Victorian Football League season

Australian rules football match

1906 VFL grand final

Carlton	Fitzroy
15.4 (94)	6.9 (45)

	1	2	3	4
CAR	3.2 (20)	7.4 (46)	9.4 (58)	15.4 (94)
FIT	1.6 (12)	1.7 (13)	6.8 (44)	6.9 (45)

Date

22 September 1906

Stadium

Melbourne Cricket Ground

Attendance

44,437

Umpires

Bert Wregg

← 1905

AFL Grand Final

1907 →

The 1906 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 22 September 1906. It was the 9th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1906 VFL season. The match, attended by 44,437 spectators, was won by Carlton by a margin of 49 points, marking that club's first VFL premiership victory.

Lead-up

After the home-and-away season (which lasted for seventeen matches, including the "first round" of fourteen matches and a "second round" of three matches), Carlton was top of the ladder with a record of 14–3 and a percentage of 153.5; Fitzroy finished second with a record of 13–4 and a percentage of 153.3.

The finals were contested using the variation of the amended Argus system seen between 1902 and 1906. Fitzroy faced fourth-placed Essendon in the First Semi-Final, and won by 36 points, and Carlton faced third-placed Collingwood in the Second Semi-Final and won by ten points.

Carlton (now 15–3) and Fitzroy (now 14–4) then faced off in the final. By virtue of their records, neither club could lose the match and still finish with a better win–loss record than the other; and therefore under the first amended Argus system, there was no chance for a challenge grand final and it was known from the opening bounce that this match would be decisive for the premiership.

Teams

Carlton

Fitzroy

Carlton
B:	Norm Clark	Doug Gillespie	Les Beck
HB:	Billy Payne	George Johnson	Charlie Hammond
C:	George Bruce	Rod McGregor	Ted Kennedy
HF:	Frank Caine	Jim Marchbank	Mick Grace
F:	Alex Lang	George Topping	Ike Little
Foll:	Jim Flynn (c)	Fred Jinks	Fred Elliott
Coach:	Jack Worrall

Fitzroy
B:	Stewart 'Frank' Abbott	Geoff Moriarty	Joe Johnson
HB:	Gilbert Barker	Jim Sharp	Percy Sheehan
C:	Barclay Bailes	Tammy Beauchamp	Edgar Kneen
HF:	Fred Fontaine	Gerald Brosnan	Bob Smith
F:	Les Millis	Charlie Naismith	Ern Jenkins (c)
Foll:	Bill Walker	Herbert Milne	Percy Trotter

Umpire – Bert Wregg

Statistics

Goalkickers

Carlton:

F Caine 3
M Grace 3
G Topping 3
L Beck 1
F Elliott 1
C Hammond 1
F Jinks 1
I Little 1
J Marchbank 1

Fitzroy:

G Brosnan 1
F Fontaine 1
L Millis 1
C Naismith 1
P Trotter 1
B Walker 1

References

Follower (9 September 1906). "The Football Season". The Age. p. 9.

v t e Carlton Football Club 1906 VFL premiers
Carlton 15.4 (94) defeated Fitzroy 6.9 (45), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Beck Bruce Caine Clark Elliott Flynn (c) Gillespie Grace Hammond Jinks Johnson Kennedy Lang Little Marchbank McGregor Payne Topping
Coach: Worrall

v t e Carlton Football Club
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Fitzroy Football Club

Home grounds

Brunswick Street Oval (1884–1966)
Princes Park (1967–1969, 1987–1993)
Junction Oval (1970–1984)
Victoria Park (1985–1986)
Western Oval (1994–1996)

Premierships

VFA	1895
VFL	1898 1899 1904 1905 1913 1916 1922 1944
Runner-up	1900 1903 1906 1917 1923
VAFA	2018

Seasons

VFA	1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
VFL/AFL	1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
VAFA	2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Fitzroy's AFL operations merged with the Brisbane Bears in 1996 to form the Brisbane Lions
Fitzroy merged with the Fitzroy Reds in 2008 and has competed in the VAFA since 2009

Australian Football League

Clubs

Current	Adelaide Brisbane Lions Carlton Collingwood Essendon Fremantle Geelong Gold Coast Greater Western Sydney Hawthorn Melbourne North Melbourne Port Adelaide Richmond St Kilda Sydney West Coast Western Bulldogs
Future	Tasmania
Former	Brisbane Bears Fitzroy University

Seasons

Grand finals

Venues

Other awards

Major recurring
events

Second-tier and
junior competitions

Current	AFL National Championships Talent League South Australian National Football League Victorian Football League West Australian Football League
Former	AFL reserves AFL under-19s North East Australian Football League VFL Sub-Districts

Known as the Victorian Football League from 1897–1989; no grand finals were held in 1897 and 1924

Categories:

Lead-up

Teams

Statistics

Goalkickers

References

See also