1969 Golden Fleece Night Series Final
Hawthorn vs Melbourne
Monday 29 September
Venue: Lake Oval
Attendance: 21,067
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Final | |
| Hawthorn | 2.4 | 4.7 | 9.11 | 10.17.77 |
| Melbourne | 1.7 | 5.10 | 7.16 | 9.18.72 |
Hawthorn win by 5 points
Goalkickers: Paul Callery 3, Ross Dillon 2, Stan Alves 2, Denis Clark 1, Neville Stone 1
Just two days after winning the Reserves premiership, many of the same players backed up for a shot at the Night Grand Final. Ironically Hawthorn were also fielding players coming off a day's rest having been in the Under 19's Grand Final on the Saturday.
Melbourne kicked the first goal after two minutes, Paul Callery from his first kick in senior company, but were horrifically inaccurate for the rest of the first term and went in behind despite having eight scoring shots to six. Strong defence helped keep Melbourne in the game early.
With the Hawks a point behind in the last quarter, Peter Hudson missed from 20 yards out directly in front before Leigh Matthews goalled to put the Hawks in front by a point.
Best were Sullivan, Feldmann and Walker. Stan Alves captained Melbourne because Bob Johnson was unavailable through injury.
Team
B: Davis, Rowlands, Jones
HB: Feldmann, Hardeman, Sullivan
C: Rollinson, Clark, Jennings
HF: Alves, Parke, Wells
F: Callery, Dillon, Bourke
Foll: Walker, Hone, Townsend
Res: Letcher, Stone
Em: Rhoden, Forster
Note
The VFL Annual Report and Football Record show the crowd as 21,061
Video
Media
Age - 30/09/1969
Links
Hardballget.net