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The 1923 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Essendon Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 20 October 1923. It was the 27th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1923 VFL season. The match, attended by 46,566 spectators, was won by Essendon by a margin of 17 points, marking that club's fifth premiership victory.
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The match was scheduled to take place a week earlier but was postponed as the ground had been flooded after heavy rain. As a result, this Grand Final coincided with the Caulfield Cup.
Fitzroy were the reigning premiers while Essendon had not won a premiership since 1912. Essendon were known at this time as the "Mosquito Fleet", due to their large number of small and pacy players such as Charlie Hardy and George Shorten.
George Rawle made his VFL debut in the Grand Final.