1909 South Melbourne vs Carlton Grand Final footage

[Day_night_honourer]

Just noticed this up at the Swans website -
(http://www.sydneyswans.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/7106/newsid/149505/default.aspx) and found it quite a fascinating capture of our first GF win. Impressive footage for it's age and an interesting insight into how very different the rules were back then (& crowds, uniforms, etc) . No change with Melbourne weather though..haha.
How crazy were those sharp picket fence spikes around the MCG!? Taking a big speccy was a lot more dangerous then!



I wonder if there's footage of the 1945 bloodbath against Carlton somewhere as well?

 

[shadowfeet]

watched this the other day. I'm quite surprised that the footage doesn't look too bad, and yeah a great insight into the rules of the game back then. Almost called "ball" a couple of times while watching it haha