Sources for Weirdest Grand Finals

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LayG Traveller, ‘A stadium with lights on it and a train going by’. Pexels. https://www.pexels.com/video/a-stadium-with-lights-on-it-and-a-train-going-by-20260839/

’ 1991 AFL Grand Final- September 28, 1991- Final Quarter’. Vaxman80. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDfcGsXGi_k

‘1972 Elimination Final Essendon Vs St Kilda First Final at VFL Park’. Gezza1967. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ijJ4xjFXzs

‘1981 Collingwood Vs Hawthorn At VFL Park’. Gezza1967. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13dOrVoyiQ0

Cable, Barry, ‘1977 VFL Preliminary Final highlights’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0duqY9j9UY

‘1983 VFL Round 1 Sydney vs Essendon’. Yellow and Black. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmnbUfsQBE

Noad, A H, ‘A H Noad Film’. Australian War Memorial. 1914-1918. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C188339

Football (1916, May 10). Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917), p. 8. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154554373

FINAL LEAGUE FOOTBALL MATCH: FITZROY WIN THE PREMIERSHIP (1916, September 9). Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), p. 28. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132713387

’ Peter Donegan over a full VFL Park Waverley 1984 Preliminary Final Day’. Jarooosa. Channel 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKXr8kmK1c

‘15. 1945 - “The Bloodbath” Grand final’. Carlton Football Club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuooPzRVNd0

‘50fps. “Bound For Glory” - 1991 AFL Grand Final. Angry Anderson.’ Rhettrospective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0UAZlObzN4

The Canberra Times (1994, May 2). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 28. , from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118208884

‘The siege of Tobruk’. British Army Film Unit. 1942. Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C188949

‘Australian rules footballer Bob Chitty’. ca. 1940s. Carlton Football Club. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bob_Chitty.jpg

“Basher” Tactics Must Be Stoped (1945, October 3). Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954), p. 13 (Edition1). from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article178100909

NINE REPORTED AFTER GRAND FINAL (1945, October 1). The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), p. 17. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article278632120

Suspensions Sequel To Carlton Grand Final (1945, October 5). Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), p. 4., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47726118

Nine reported vicious final (1945, October 1). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 15., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page631680

Rob Forsaith, Oliver Caffrey and Anna Harrington, ‘Perth on standby to host 2021 AFL grand final’. 25 August 2021. https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/sport/2021/08/25/perth-host-afl-grand-final

Albertson, Jeff, ‘ 2018 AFL Grand Final West Coast Eagles Vs Collingwood Magpies Highlights’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yoba9LHtig8

‘Piece of the ‘G to be part of 2020 AFL Grand Final’. MCG. 14 October 2020. https://mcg.org.au/whats-on/latest-news/2020/october/piece-of-the-g-to-be-part-of-2020-afl-grand-final

VICTORIAN FOOTBALL (1924, October 3). The News (Hobart, Tas. : 1924 - 1925), p. 3 (FIRST EDITION)., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233529904

FOOTBALL. (1897, August 16). Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), p. 3. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150375073

THE FOOTBALL SEASON. (1897, July 26). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 3., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190657162

Essendon Football Club. ‘Essendon fc 1897’. Wikimedia Commons. 1897. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Essendon_fc_1897.jpg

FOOTBALL. (1901, March 18). The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), p. 4., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207032472

FOOTBALL (1924, October 4). Record (Emerald Hill, Vic. : 1881 - 1954), p. 5., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164447760

WAR AND FOOTBALL. (1916, February 29). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 6., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2105102

‘Cartlonfc 1910 logo’. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartlonfc_1910_logo.jpg

‘The Collingwood Logo’. Collingwood Forever. https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/the-collingwood-logo/

‘The Maroons’. Fitzroy Football Club. https://www.fitzroyfc.com.au/maroons