1970 VFL grand final
The 1970 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on 26 September 1970. It was the 73rd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1970 VFL season. The match was won by Carlton by a margin of 10 points, marking that club's 10th premiership victory.
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| Date | 26 September 1970, 2:30 pm | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 121,696 | |||||||||||||||
| Favourite | Collingwood | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Don Jolley | |||||||||||||||
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| Jock McHale Medallist | John Nicholls | |||||||||||||||
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| Network | Seven Network | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Mike Williamson, Alan Gale, Ted Whitten | |||||||||||||||
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This game is widely considered to be one of the greatest Grand Finals of all time and, according to one of the key protagonists Ted Hopkins, heralded "the birth of modern football". The attendance figure of 121,696 spectators broke the grand final record set the previous year of 119,165 spectators, and set an all-time attendance record for any football code in Australia that still stands.