Quirkily, four of our 18 that played that day against St Kilda ended their careers playing for St Kilda - perhaps the Saints boys were responsible for the “pleasant” atmosphere of the match mentioned by umpire McMurray, and that impressed our boys?
Only four of that team made it onto the field for our GF win only two seasons later, which is quite a turnover - from reigning wooden spooner to premiers in two years. There would have been five, but infamously Bob Corbett had his jaw broken early in the 1926 PF and was unavailable - but still a big turnaround in playing personnel.
And @Whispering_Jack, it was Ramsay MacDonald who was “the big fellow up forward” for the British Government at the time, becoming the UK’s first Labour PM in January 1924.