1957 VFL grand final

1957 VFL Grand Final
Melbourne Essendon 17.14 (116) 7.13 (55)
1 2 3 4 MEL 6.2 (38) 9.9 (63) 12.11 (83) 17.14 (116) ESS 2.3 (15) 4.4 (28) 7.8 (50) 7.13 (55)
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 61st 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

Essendon

Umpire - Allan Nash Statistics Goalkickers Melbourne: Barassi 5 Ridley 4 Webb 3 B.Johnson 2 Tunbridge 2 Case 1 Essendon: Gallagher 3 Birt 1 Clarke 1 Gill 1 Hebbard 1 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 1957 VFL season 1948 VFL Grand Final 2000 AFL Grand Final