1898 VFL grand final
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The 1898 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held in Melbourne on 24 September 1898. The match was played to d
The Junction Oval, venue for the match
Fitzroy, winning team.
Walter Charles Moore was an Australian rules footballer who played for Albert Park and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association and for Essendon in the Victorian Football League. He serve
1898 VFL grand final
…by Essendon when they finished above three other clubs on the finals series ladder. Both Fitzroy back pocket Stan Reid and the Essendon full-forward Charlie Moore later died in South Africa in active service during the Anglo-Boer War—Moore on 5 May 1901, and Reid on 23 June 1901. During the 1898 home-and-away…
A view of the drinking fountain erected by public subscription as a memorial to Charles Moore at St Vincent Gardens, Albert Park (the fountain is in the centre of the photograph)