Revealed: Melbourne Grammar’s best team of the past 50 years

Melbourne Grammar School has produced a star-studded list of VFL/AFL stars over the past five decades, including multiple premiership players and some current day champions.

Geelong’s Tom Hawkins attended Melbourne Grammar School. Picture: Getty Images

At one end of the ground there is ‘Jumping Jack’ and at the other end there is his son ‘Tomahawk’.

Geelong father-son duo Jack and Tom Hawkins are closing in on 500 VFL/AFL games played between them and both feature in Melbourne Grammar School’s best team of the past 50 years.

Jack played 182 games for the Cats from 1973-1981 primarily in defence and Tom, who remains one of the competition’s premier power forwards, is on track to play his 300th game later this year.

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Geelong champion Tom Hawkins joins his father in Melbourne Grammar School’s best team of the past 50 years.

Tom has bragging rights over his father when it comes to awards, being a two-time premiership player with the Cats, a three-time All-Australian and the 2020 Coleman Medal Winner.

He has also been Geelong’s leading goalkicker on nine occasions and has kicked well over 600 AFL goals.

Tom and father Jack Hawkins are closing on 500 AFL games combined as Tom nears 300 games. Picture: Jason Edwards

Another Melbourne Grammar School graduate with multiple VFL/AFL premierships under his belt is former Hawthorn backman Chris Langford.

Langford won premierships with the Hawks in 1986, 1988, 1989 and 1991 and was also a two-time All-Australian during a decorated career that spanned 303 games.

Former Hawthorn and West Coast midfielder Xavier Ellis — who won a premiership with the Hawks in 2008 — and Western Bulldogs 2016 premiership defender Fletcher Roberts are other recent players from the school to have won flags at the top level.

Other current day AFL stars to have come from Melbourne Grammar School include two-time Essendon best-and-fairest Zach Merrett, Melbourne key defender and former Gold Coast Suns captain Steven May, Melbourne wingman Ed Langdon and Western Bulldogs defender Alex

Keath.

Essendon midfielder Zach Merrrett graduated from Melbourne Grammar School. Picture: Getty Images

Originally published as Revealed: Melbourne Grammar’s best team of the past 50 years