1958.50 years on! Into The Hall of Fame remembered forever!

[joffa corfe]

1958-2008 Is this the most inspirational Grand Final in our history as our lads took on the hot faves Melbourne at the MCG and created something very special.
I still get goosebumps when reading about it.

It was the year of the centenary Premiership that represented 100 years of VFA/VFL competition.

Achievments Copeland Trophy winner..Thorold Merret, VFL and and club leading goalkicker...Ian Brewer 73


The squad of 58

Turner
Rose
Henderson
Dickson
Waller
Smale
Gray
Delanty
Gabelich
Doorman
Fellowes
Harrison
M .Twomey
Sullivan
Howell
Powell
Turner
Serong
Grove
W .Twomey
Millar
Beers
Beckwith
Donegan
Jones
Hedt
Reeves
Burns
Sharp
T . Merrett
Brewer
Weideman
Tuck... Injury sadly cost him Captaincy of the immortal Premiership 1958 squad.
Kingston
Lucas
Bennett.

Finished second at end of season
Lost to Melb in the first week of finals...11.12 to 4.9
Followed by a victory over North Melb 14.12 to North's 10.16
Would go on and Defeat the Melbourne football club in the Granny by 3 goals.

Biggest Victory of 1958 when our lads destroyed South Melb 20.20 to 9.12

In the 1958 season Collingwood did not beat melbourne in any game until the Grand Final day.

So arrogant was Melbourne that before the ball was bounced to commence the 1958 season they had booked the venue and celebrations for the 58 Premiership.

In 1958 Henderson would recive his first Collingwood jumper # 10 and would go on and Captain the most famous of all football clubs.

The scribes were hailing Melbourne as champions and record breakers. Norm Smith's legend was complete, they concluded as only formalities remained.

1958 also saw the Pies and Demons clash played on the Queens Birthday .

The chef at the Melbourne function after the game had to scrape the icing Premiers 1958- FOUR IN A ROW off the cake.

The crowd scenes that followed Collingwood's triumph were remarkable and Pie fans unashamedly wept from the excitement and jubilation. There was no question they had just witnessed not only the greatest performance, but the most stirring victory in the history of the code..it would be time for delirium.

The media would herald the following as the great players of the match..
Thorold Merrett
Fellowes
Serong
Weideman
Harrison
Peter Lucas
Ron Reeves
Gabelich
Ken Bennett
Ken Turner.

Many Collingwood players would reveal later they did not believe prior to the Grand Final they could beat Melbourne.


Ken Bennet for the Magpies relished the wet conditions kicking two goals.

Phonse Kyne..
had done his best to to key the Collingwood boys before the clash and no one will ever forget the electrical atmosphere in the rooms before the game as he drummed in the huge importance of the match.
He stressed we were the Men to decide if we wanted Melbourne to join us as the only two teams to win four flags in a row.
To be continued....

As we salute our heroes of 58..50 years on!

[3rd degree]

Great Work Joffa -nothing better than knowing that we smashed those lowly toe rags.

[optimax]

Played fantastic football because they couldnt let any team take our Record, the 58 premeirship is up there in imporatnce with the four straight joffa, showed working class would always shove it up the blue bloods.

Didnt melbourne go on to win 59 and 60 as well meaning that if they won 58 they wouldnt have just equalled our record but demolished it?

[joffa corfe]

[joffa corfe]

K Smale was on the Collingwood bench during this historic Premiership he arrived at Collingwood as a prolific full foward from Warracknabeal. Between 1955-58 he only managed 60 games for 98 Goals..His 1958 Grand Final would be his last game for the pies

To be continued..

Our 58 heroes 50 years on.

[John Wren]

this might have been answered already ... do we have a round each year whereby the club honours a particular year, i.e. old timers' day?

[regan is true fullback]

Sadly that was the last time the mighty Magpies beat Melbourne in a final, due mainly to the fact that since 1964 Melbourne have been crap.
However on 2 of their rare finals appearances in 1988 and 1989 the Gentry beat Collingwood, indeed put them out of the finals.

One of those quirks of history, I guess, that the Pies have not beaten Melbourne, Richmond or St Kilda in a final in the modern era. And the way those three are going, it doesn't look like we'll get our chance in the near future!

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

And due to censorship restraints we are unable to provide you with pictures of 'The immoral squad of 58'

[HAL]

Good reason. That is something I haven't heard of.

[joffa corfe]

Murray Weideman's contribution to the historic 58 Premiership side still has history books burning .He would lead our darling heroes onto the most famous of battlefields as the football world scoffed and laughed at his teams chances at having any sort of hope
Probably best remembered today as Collingwood's much loved (and much loathed) 'enforcer' of the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the early part of his career Murray Weideman was actually more renowned for his aerial ability. He made his VFL debut in 1953, and was on the bench for that year's grand final, in which the Magpies downed Geelong. Weideman's more brutal side only really emerged later in the 1950s as he filled out physically and began to assume more of an on-field leadership role. When regular Collingwood skipper Frank Tuck was injured and unavailable for the 1958 grand final against Melbourne, Murray Weideman stepped into his shoes and took to the responsibility as though born to it. His deliberate and continuous intimidation of his star Melbourne opponent Ron Barassi was a major factor in the Magpies eking out a shock 3 goal win.
Weidemann was much more than just the footballing equivalent of a hit man, however. He won the Copeland Trophy for Collingwood's best and fairest player in 1957, 1961 and 1962, and was regularly among the Magpies' best players in important games. In 1964, after 180 VFL games and 262 goals, he accepted a job captain-coaching Albury in the Ovens and Murray Football League. After four seasons there, during which he steered his side to the 1966 premiership, he accepted a similar job with West Adelaide, which had been in the doldrums since the early 1960s. Weidemann promptly got the Blood 'n Tars into the finals, but they bowed out at the first hurdle against North Adelaide. They did slightly better in 1969, reaching the preliminary final before losing to Glenelg, but then Weideman opted to retire as a player. Without his inspirational on-field presence, Westies seemed to lose their way, finishing 6th in 1970, and 8th in 1971, after which 'The Weed' packed his bags. He made a brief return to coaching in 1975 with his old club Collingwood, but after a solid debut season which spawned an 11-9 record and 5th place on the ladder, the wheels fell off in spectacular fashion in 1976 as the club plummeted to its first ever wooden spoon.

It is as a player, however, that Murray Weideman will be best remembered, and his selection at centre half forward in Collingwood's official 'Team of the Twentieth Century' should help ensure that his feats continue to be celebrated for many years to come.

[joffa corfe]

In Weidemans own words..
I was Collingwood mad he says..just lived and died for Collingwood. I watched the games, hero worshipped the players it was all just black and white.

Celebrating our 58 heros 50 years on! We shall never forget.

[joffa corfe]

Emphatically belying the fact that he looked rather more like an underfed schoolboy than a league footballer, Collingwood rover and wingman Thorold Merrett amassed 179 VFL games, 7 interstate appearances for the VFL, and two Copeland Trophies between 1950 and 1960. What the mere statistics do not reveal, however, is the verve, aggression, courage, determination and, above all, consummate skill with which those achievements were laced.
Aged just sixteen, Merrett made his Collingwood debut in 1950 against Footscray, and a couple of years later made the first of his Big V appearances. Standing just 168cm tall, and weighing barely 60kg, he was the smallest player on the field in virtually every game he played (as the above photograph starkly illustrates), and this, combined with his fearless attitude, made him extraordinarily susceptible to injury. Nevertheless, he knew no other way to play the game than with dynamic, wholehearted zeal and aggression, and there was a sense in which, during the 1950s, he personified the Collingwood spirit better than any other player.

Renowned for his copybook kicking style, which was almost unfailingly accurate, Merrett was alleged to have spent hours as a youngster repeatedly stab passing a ball through an old car tire from various distances. Such perfectionism was evidenced in other facets of his play, even down to the impeccable way in which he was always turned out.

A member of five Magpie grand final teams, the undoubted highlights of Merrett's career came in 1953 and 1958 when he helped his side to grand final victories over Geelong and Melbourne respectively. Listed high in the best players after the 1953 game, he was a widespread choice as best afield after a typically energetic and scintillating performance five years later.

In 1960, aged twenty-seven, injury brought Merrett's career to an end after he broke his leg for the second time and it failed to knit cleanly.

Thorold Merrett was selected on a wing in Collingwood's official 'Team of the Century'.


To be continued..Celebrating the heros of 58 50 years on.



This pic show Thorold wearing the big V at Adelaide..smallest player on the ground with a terrier like attitude.

[kickit2me]

Great thread, annoying avatar

[neil]

Great posts: Are you going to mention "Hooker" Harrison who also did a bit of enforcing that day?

[Dave The Man]

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