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| Date | 21 September 1957 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 100,324 | |||||||||||||||
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The 1957 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 21 September 1957. It was the 60th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1957 VFL season. The match, attended by 100,324 spectators, was won by Melbourne by 61 points, marking that club's ninth premiership victory.
This was Melbourne's fourth successive Grand Final appearance and third successive premiership. Ron Barassi starred for the Demons with five goals, four of them in the first half to put the game out of Essendon's reach. Melbourne's coach Norm Smith had previously participated in successive premierships as a player, from 1939 to 1941.
Teams
Melbourne
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Essendon
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- Umpire – Allan Nash
Statistics
Goalkickers
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Attendance
- MCG crowd – 100,324
References
- 1957 VFL Grand Final statistics
- 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
See also
| Melbourne Football Club 1957 VFL premiers | |
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| Melbourne 17.14 (116) defeated Essendon 7.13 (55), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground | |
| Coach: Smith |
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| Melbourne did not field a team from 1916–1918 due to the First World War | |
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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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