Scott Pendlebury

So officially...

In today's records, in round 18, 1974, the great Brownlow medalist Kevin Bulldog Murray from Fitzroy played his 329th game in a loss to Footscray passing contemporary John Nicholls.

There is no vision of this game.

This is how much things have changed.

There is no vision of this game.

But thanks to the Herald Sun, who kindly went deep into their archives.

I'm picturing dust and spider webs.

They went deep into their archive building to help out.

This is what unfolded.

It's actually very cool to see some of the old articles, by the way.

But back in the day, the record was actually reported to be Game 3-3-2, not Game 3-2-9.

Since it just went back to 3-2-9 with the State of Origin stuff I talked about, stick with me here.

So on August 23, 1974, Peter Samunovic wrote in The Sun, You couldn't blame scaffolder Kevin Murray for being up in the air yesterday.

For tomorrow, the Fitzroy defender will achieve something he has been thinking about for a long time, the VFL Games record.

Now, the up in the airline is accompanied by Kev in a flanny on scaffolding at work the week of the game.

Now, I'm not sure Scotty Pendlebury is going to be on the tools this week.

Then we get to the match report.

There's a magnificent two-page spread with lots of pictures.

Stephen Perkin reported...

I quote, they saluted the old bloke today in old fashioned style.