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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final abstract "The 1956 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 15 September 1956. It was the 60th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1956 VFL season. The match was won by Melbourne by 73 points, marking that club's eighth premiership victory. It was the second successive year in which the two teams met in a premiership decider, with Melbourne having won the 1955 VFL Grand Final.The Grand Final was attended by 115,803 spectators, easily setting a new record as the largest crowd to have witnessed a premiership decider in VFL Grand Final history, breaking the record of 96,486 spectators who witnessed the 1938 VFL Grand Final. The capacity of the ground had recently been expanded with a new grandstand for the upcoming 1956 Summer Olympics, but the ground was still not large enough to comfortably or safely accommodate such a large crowd; stairwells and aisles were full of people, meaning that many people were unable to leave their positions to use restrooms during the game; and many people had restricted views of the game due to the crowding, resulting in some spectators climbing onto the roofs or back walls of the grandstand and other structures for a better view. The gates were shut for safety reasons when the venue reached capacity, resulting in riots outside the ground in which an estimated 2,500 further spectators broke into the ground. More than 20,000 specatators were turned away at the gate. Pre-sale ticketing for finals was introduced from the following season to prevent a repeat of these events, and the crowd record stood until the 1968 VFL Grand Final – after the opening of the Western Stand.A scene from the game is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting The Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport: Collingwood's Neil Mann and Melbourne's Ian Ridley fighting amongst the spectators who were sitting on the arena (but behind the boundary line).".
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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final wikiPageWikiLink Category:1956_in_Australian_rules_football.
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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final wikiPageWikiLink Harry_Sullivan_(footballer).
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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final wikiPageWikiLink Peter_Lucas_(footballer).
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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final wikiPageWikiLink Ralph_Lane_(footballer).
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final wikiPageWikiLink Ray_Gabelich.
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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final wikiPageWikiLink Stuart_Spencer_(footballer).
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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final wikiPageWikiLinkText "1956 Grand Final".
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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final backpocket John_Beckwith_(footballer).
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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final backpocket Trevor_Johnson_(footballer).
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final centre Bill_Twomey,_Jr..
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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final forwardpocket Neil_Mann_(Australian_rules_footballer).
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final fullback Harry_Sullivan_(footballer).
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- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final fullforward Athol_Webb.
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final fullforward Ken_Smale.
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final halfbackflank Don_Williams_(footballer).
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final halfbackflank Keith_Carroll.
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final halfbackflank Peter_Lucas_(footballer).
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final halfbackflank Ron_Kingston.
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final halfforwardflank Bill_Serong.
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final halfforwardflank Jim_Sandral.
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final halfforwardflank Ken_Turner_(Australian_rules_footballer).
- 1956_VFL_Grand_Final halfforwardflank Laurie_Mithen.
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