Grand final

Awards

• The Coleman Medal was won by Peter Hudson
  Peter Hudson
  Peter John Hudson AM is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest full-forwards in the game's history....
  
   of Hawthorn
  Hawthorn Football Club
  The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
  
   with 105 goals
• The Brownlow Medal
  Brownlow Medal
  The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...
  
   was won by Graham Teasdale
  Graham Teasdale
  Graham Teasdale is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Richmond Football Club in the VFL between 1972 and 1975, for the South Melbourne Football Club from 1975 to 1981 and then for the Collingwood Football Club from 1982 to 1984....
  
   of South Melbourne.

Notable events

• In Round 6, Hawthorn set records against St. Kilda of 41 behinds (previous highest 34) and 66 scoring shots (previous highest 60).
• For the only time in V/AFL history, two players from one team - Peter Hudson and Leigh Matthews of Hawthorn - combined for over 200 goals in one season.
• For the only time since 1906, one club (Hawthorn) produced the two leading goalkickers in a season. Hudson kicked 110 goals and Liegh Matthews 91.
• In the Round 15 game against Geelong, Hawthorn had three players - Hudson with eight, John Hendrie
  John Hendrie (footballer)
  John Hendrie is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1970s.A forward, Hendrie kicked a career best 52 goals in 1977. He finished equal third in the 1975 Brownlow Medal count and was a premiership player with Hawthorn in 1976 and 1978.-External links:...
  
   with eight, and Leigh Matthews with seven - kick seven or more goals in one match. This has been repeated only by Fitzroy with Matthew Rendell, Bernie Quinlan
  Bernie Quinlan
  Bernie Quinlan , was a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who enjoyed a lengthy career with Footscray and Fitzroy in the VFL. He played 366 league games in total.- Playing career :...
  
   and Michael Conlan
  Michael Conlan
  Michael "Mick" Conlan is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.Born in Tasmania, Conlan played with the Manuka Football Club in the Australian Capital Territory before being recruited to the VFL by the Fitzroy Football Club. He debuted in 1977 and played mostly at...
  
   in 1983 against North Melbourne.
• In shocking conditions in Round 12, Carlton and Geelong played the first match since the 1927 Grand Final
  1927 VFL Grand Final
  The 1927 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Collingwood Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 1 October 1927...
  
   where both teams scored three or fewer goals. As with the Footscray versus Fitzroy game the previous year, both teams’ scores were lower than any score from any other game during 1977.
• In Round 16, Geelong beat Collingwood despite having fifteen fewer scoring shots. This equalled Richmond's record against Fitzroy from 1957. The greatest deficit in scoring shots by a winning side since is 12.
• In the Reserve and Under-19 Grades, the appalling weather of mid- to late June caused the only cancellation (as opposed to postponement) of matches in V/AFL history. These cancellations affected Round 14 in the Reserves and Round 13 in the Under-19s.

See also

• Early VFL Final systems
  Early VFL Final systems
  Throughout its history, the Victorian Football League has used a system of finals after playing a regular season to determine the winner of the premiership....
  
  
• Page-McIntyre "Final Four" system
• McIntyre "Final Five" system