Match Summary
The Grand Final was turned into a shoot-out. Exactly 50 goals were kicked in the game, with the teams compiling a combined score of 50.27 (327). This was, at the time, the highest scoring game in VFL history, Grand Final or otherwise, and has been bettered only seven times since. Carlton and Richmond held the highest and second highest team Grand Final scores in history (equalling the previous record of 22.18 (150) set by Essendon in 1946); Carlton's score of 28.9 (177) remains the highest in Grand Final history, and Richmond's 22.18 (150) remains the highest losing score in a Grand Final. Richmond's score was the tenth highest score of the season: only in 1924, 1937, 1940, 1954, 1962, 1976 and 2001 have other teams lost matches with scores among the ten highest of a season.
Alex Jesaulenko kicked seven goals while Robert Walls (in a best-on-ground performance) and John Nicholls bagged six each for Carlton. Richmond had eleven individual goal-kickers, with Neil Balme kicking five.
Carlton's opening term score of 8.4 (52) and second term score of 10.2 (62) set the records for the best first and second quarter scores in Grand Final history (Hawthorn would later equal the first quarter score in the 1989 VFL Grand Final).
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