Dick Harris Kicked Seven in the 1943 Grand Final. So Why Was Bernie Waldron Richmond’s Best?
The full RTSSG member feature The 1943 Grand Final: The Day Richmond Proved It Could Beat Essendon’s Football is the investigation behind this Public question.
Dick Harris kicked seven of Richmond’s 12 goals in a five-point premiership win over Essendon. Jack Dyer kicked three. On the scoreboard, the obvious Grand Final story almost writes itself.
But Richmond’s own match-day recognition points somewhere else. Bernie Waldron received Richmond’s match trophy. That becomes harder to ignore when Essendon had demolished Richmond in the 1942 Grand Final, beaten the Tigers again in the 1943 second semi-final, and then led at three-quarter time of the Grand Final at Princes Park.
So what had actually changed? Was Harris simply the match-winner who dragged Richmond over the line, or did his seven goals sit at the end of a much larger football change Richmond had spent a year trying to make?
The member feature goes back through the 1942 defeat, the second-semi warning and the surviving contemporary evidence to test what Richmond had to become before Harris’s scoreboard impact could decide anything.
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