The game was between Melbourne and Hawthorn and the game was described as the most epic played at VFL Park, with Hawthorn winning from a goal kicked after the siren, by Gary Buckenara.
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Waverley Park hosted its first football match in Round 3, 1970 (Geelong vs Fitzroy), and was known for over twenty years as VFL Park.
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Waverley Park and Victoria Park both hosted their final AFL games in Round 22 --- their absence would be replaced the following year by Colonial Stadium.
The suburb is largely composed of residential streets of tenement housing, such as Waverley Park and Milton Street, built in the mid-1890s on the grounds of Comely Gardens, a pleasure garden belonging to a local mansion, which operated along the same lines as London's Vauxhall Gardens.