1948 VFL grand final
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The 1948 VFL grand final and grand final replay were a pair of Australian rules football games contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Essendon Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket G
Melbourne FC team, premiers
Don Cordner
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Donald Pruen Cordner, M.B.B.S. was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during the 1940s. His brothers Denis, John and Ted also played for the club
1948 VFL grand final
…final and suspended; his place in the side was taken by leading amateur player and University Blacks captain Denis Cordner – and brother of club captain Don Cordner – whose only previous senior game VFL game had occurred while on leave from the navy in 1943. Essendon made one change to its winning second semi-final…
Cordner in 1945