1966 VFL Grand Final

1966 VFL Grand Final
10.13 (73)	10.14 (74)
Date	24 September 1966
Stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
Attendance	101,655
Broadcast in Australia
Commentators	Butch Gale, Ted Whitten, Mike Williamson.

The 1966 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and St Kilda Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1966. It was the 70th annual grand final of the Victorian Football League (VFL), staged to determine the premiers for the 1966 VFL season. The match, attended by 101,655 spectators,[1] was won by St Kilda by a margin of one point, marking that club's first and only premiership victory to date.

Match summary

Twenty-five minutes into the final quarter and with scores level, Collingwood's Wayne Richardson had a shot at goal on the run but kicked it out of bounds on the full. St Kilda then began to work the ball out of defence after winning the boundary throw-in. A kick from Ian Cooper saw the ball make its way to centre half forward. Collingwood defender Ted Potter failed to mark the ball low down and with the players scrummaging for the ball a bounce was called. Brian Mynott won the tap for the Saints but it was intercepted by Potter who was quickly tackled. Potter however managed to get out a hand pass but it found its way to St Kilda's Barry Breen who snapped at goal and kicked a behind to put his side in front. With about a minute left on the clock, Collingwood were able to work the ball towards their forward line. Bob Murray, however, was able to take a mark at centre half back and the siren sounded after he kicked the ball towards the wing.

One of the timekeepers was an avid St Kilda fan and blew the final siren for more than ten seconds.[2]

Teams

St Kilda

Collingwood

St Kilda
B:	1 Rodger Head	6 Bob Murray	13 Brian Sierakowski
HB:	16 Verdun Howell	9 Ian Synman	24 John Bingley
C:	36 Jeff Moran	5 Ian Stewart	21 Jim Read
HF:	15 Ian Cooper	4 Darrel Baldock (c)	27 Barry Breen
F:	8 Alan Morrow	18 Kevin Neale	19 Allan Davis
Foll:	2 Brian Mynott	25 Daryl Griffiths	3 Ross Smith
Res:	31 Travis Payze	22 Kevin Billing
Coach:	Allan Jeans

Collingwood
B:	35 Ian Montgomery	8 Peter Boyne	5 Terry Waters
HB:	13 Laurie Hill	15 Ted Potter	33 Lee Adamson
C:	17 Peter Patterson	9 Colin Tully	12 Errol Hutchesson
HF:	1 Des Tuddenham (c)	16 Doug Searl	21 Max Pitt
F:	3 Ray Gabelich	7 Ian Graham	36 Gary Wallis
Foll:	28 Len Thompson	29 Kevin Rose	18 Wayne Richardson
Res:	2 Trevor Steer	4 John Henderson
Coach:	Bob Rose

Umpire – Jeff Crouch

Statistics

Score


	1966 VFL Grand Final
Saturday, 24 September 2:50pm	Collingwood	def. by	St Kilda	MCG (crowd: 101,655)
	2.1 (13) 5.7 (37) 7.11 (53) 10.13 (73)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	2.5 (17) 5.6 (36) 8.9 (57) 10.14 (74)	Umpires: Crouch Television broadcast: Seven Network


Tuddenham 3 Gabelich, Richardson 2 Graham, Pitt, Wallis 1		Goals	5 Neale 2 Baldock 1 Cooper, Griffiths, Moran
Waters, Richardson, Thompson, Patterson, Pitt, Tuddenham		Best	Cooper, Stewart, Sierakowski, Griffiths, Breen, Morrow, Neale

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