Their four scoring shots Motion is the second-lowest by any team since the tenth round of 1908 , with only Fitzroy against Footscray in 1953 having fewer .

The 1961 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested Competition between the Footscray Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club , held Placing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 23 September 1961 .

Footscray , the 1954 premiership winners , had finished Process_end the home and away season in fourth place but upset Perception_active the Ron Barassi-led Melbourne by 27 points in the Preliminary Final to end Process_end the Demons ' sequence of seven consecutive Grand Final appearances .

It was a young Footscray side , with only two players coming Motion into the game with more than 80 VFL games behind them , although one of them was veteran Ted Whitten .

Despite trailing at half time , Hawthorn won comfortably in the end courtesy of a dominant third quarter in which they kicked Motion six goals to just one by Footscray .