It was the 68th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1964 VFL season.The match, attended by 102,469 spectators, was won … Gabelich kicked another to put them in front soon afterwards, a goal that is now regarded as one of the most famous in grand final history. The 1964 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 19 September 1964. Melbourne went into the Grand Final as red hot favourite, but despite being undermanned the Pies were ferocious at the ball and matched them. He was directly in front and only 20 metres out but his shot for goal came off the side of his boot and he could only manage a behind. Canberra Times - 21/09/1964 Melbourne's defence was expected to get on top of the Pies, but there was a danger this if Graham Wise was beaten in the ruck then the Demons had nobody else to … When Barrie Vagg booted a point early in the second term it was the 12th consecutive point of the match.

Venue: MCG Melbourne went into the Grand Final as red hot favourite, but despite being undermanned the Pies were ferocious at the ball and matched them. It was the 68th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1964 VFL season. Melbourne held on to win, with the ball 30 yards from their defensive goal when the siren sounded.

The Pies were forced into a preliminary final against Geelong where they triumphed by under a goal. The 1960 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1960 in extremely wet conditions due to persistent rain during the previous week.

Our 1993 win over the tigers will probably forever remain as the highest attendance for a night grand final, and I'd say that 2/3 were tiges supporters. After battling so hard for the breakthrough, the Demons capitalised almost immediately with a second goal for the term. Estaba directamente al frente y a solo 20 metros de distancia, pero su disparo a puerta se le salió por el costado de la bota y solo pudo manejar una zaga. 23 minutes into the term Brian Dixon - guilty of many turnovers throughout the day - found himself with the ball at left half-forward. HB: Tony Anderson, Brian Roet, Frank Davis Sin embargo, Melbourne tuvo otra oportunidad de ganar el juego cuando patearon el balón hacia la portería. The Pies still had time to win it. It was too early to shut up shop, but the Pies suddenly had all the momentum.

Two more behinds to Melbourne were further wasted opportunities to put the game away, the Pies kept coming and when Ray Gabelich took the ball from a boundary throw in and goalled the margin was back to three.

The 193cm ruckman took the ball and had four bounces, nearly losing the ball before goalling from the square to put his side in front. Melbourne held on against intense pressure from Collingwood until the siren sounded leaving Melbourne winners by 4 points. Norm Smith described the final term as "the most agonising I have ever experienced in football". Se creía ampliamente que Terry Waters había pateado dos goles en la gran final, aunque en enero de 2020, se reveló que uno de los goles de Water había sido anotado por su compañero Magpie Ian Graham.

An even bigger twist is that for 55 years, Waters was the outright top Collingwood with 43 goals but the change brought a tie between the two on 42 a piece, Fullpointsfooty article on the Grand Final, https://www.afl.com.au/news/367994/history-rewritten-the-remarkable-story-of-the-grand-final-goal-that-wasn-t, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1964_VFL_Grand_Final&oldid=984200475, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 October 2020, at 19:50.