In the second of a news series on richmondfc.com.au, Tony Greenberg programs the Tiger Time Machine to 1967, to re-live how that superb season unfolded from a Yellow and Black viewpoint, and examine what else was occurring throughout the world that year. 

 

Coach: Tommy Hafey

Captain: Fred Swift

Best and Fairest winner: Kevin Bartlett 

Leading Goalkicker: Royce Hart (55 goals)

Leading Brownlow Medal vote-getter: Dick Clay (12 votes)

Players used: 34

Debutants: 7 (Royce Hart, Francis Bourke, Kevin Sheedy, Michael Bowden, Graeme Bond, Kevin Shinners, David Jacks) 

 

 

Round 1: Richmond 15.29 (110) defeated Essendon 11.9 (75) at the MCG

Round 2: Richmond 8.22 (70) lost to Footscray 12.6 (78) at the Western Oval

Round 3: Richmond 11.12 (78) defeated Fitzroy 7.11 (53) at the MCG

Round 4: Richmond 11.22 (88) defeated North Melbourne 10.8 (68) at Arden Street

Round 5: Richmond 16.22 (118) defeated Hawthorn 5.13 (43) at the MCG

Round 6: Richmond 14.15 (99) defeated St Kilda 9.4 (58) at Moorabbin

Round 7: Richmond 18.11 (119) defeated Geelong 12.9 (81) at the MCG

Round 8: Richmond 13.5 (83) lost to Collingwood 13.12 (90) at the MCG

Round 9: Richmond 13.15 (93) defeated Carlton 14.7 (91) at Princes Park

Round 10: Richmond 24.14 (158) defeated Melbourne 12.9 (81) at the MCG

Round 11: Richmond 14.25 (109) defeated South Melbourne 8.9 (57) at the Lake Oval

Round 12: Richmond 10.12 (72) lost to Essendon 13.15 (93) at Windy Hill

Round 13: Richmond 19.16 (130) defeated Footscray 8.10 (58) at the MCG

Round 14: Richmond 8.19 (67) defeated Fitzroy 8.10 (58) at Princes Park

Round 15: Richmond 14.21 (105) defeated North Melbourne 13.7 (85) at the MCG

Round 16: Richmond 23.20 (168) defeated Hawthorn 7.12 (54) at Glenferrie Oval

Round 17: Richmond 12.13 (85) defeated St Kilda 7.11 (53) at the MCG

Round 18: Richmond 18.9 (117) defeated Geelong 15.15 (105) at Kardinia Park

 

 

1.      RICHMOND, 15 wins, 3 losses, 145.9%, 60 points

2.      CARLTON, 14 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses, 125.8%, 58 points

3.      GEELONG, 13 wins, 5 losses, 122.8%, 52 points

4.      COLLINGWOOD, 12 wins, 6 losses, 132.2%, 48 points

5.      St Kilda, 11 wins, 7 losses, 122.7%, 44 points

6.      Essendon, 8 wins, 1 draw, 9 losses, 106.0%, 34 points

7.      Melbourne, 8 wins, 10 losses, 88.8%, 32 points

8.      North Melbourne, 7 wins, 1 draw, 10 losses, 94.2%, 30 points

9.      South Melbourne, 5 wins, 1 draw, 12 losses, 82.0%, 22 points

10. Hawthorn, 5 wins, 13 losses, 70.3%, 20 points

11. Fitzroy, 4 wins, 14 losses, 72.1%, 16 points

12. Footscray, 4 wins, 14 losses, 71.6%, 16 points

 

 

Second semi-final

Richmond 20.21 (141) defeated Carlton 14.17 (101)

 

 

Richmond 4.3 9.10 12.15 16.18 (114) defeated Geelong 3.3 7.6 13.7 15.15 (105)

 

 

55 - Royce Hart

49 - John Northey

38 - Kevin Bartlett

26 - Paddy Guinane

18 - Mike Patterson

16 - Billy Brown

15 - Barry Richardson

14 - Bill Barrot

11 - Neville Crowe

 

 

6 - Royce Hart v Geelong, Round 18, Kardinia Park

6 - Royce Hart v Carlton, Second semi-final, MCG

6 - John Northey v Melbourne, Round 10, MCG

6 - John Northey v Hawthorn, Round 16, Glenferrie Oval

6 - Kevin Bartlett v Hawthorn, Round 5, MCG

 

 

20 - Kevin Bartlett, John Northey, Fred Swift

19 - Roger Dean, Royce Hart

18 - Dick Clay, Michael Green, Mike Patterson

17 - Neville Crowe, Mike Perry, Kevin Shinners

16 - Francis Bourke, Tony Jewell

15 - Bill Barrot, Alan Richardson

14 - Mick Erwin

 

 

Melbourne Cup winner: Red Handed

Super Bowl Champions (inaugural): Green Bay Packers

World Series Champions: St Louis Cardinals

FA Cup winners: Tottenham Hotspur

Wimbledon champion (male): John Newcombe

Wimbledon champion (female): Billie Jean King

 

 

·         American astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo1 spacecraft during a launch pad test.

·         Vladimir Komarov becomes the first Soviet cosmonaut to die, when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry.

·         In Houston, Texas, champion boxer, Muhammad Ali, refuses military service.

·         Elvis Presley and Priscillia Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.

·         Albert DeSalvo, aka ‘The Boston Strangler’, is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison.

·         The Beatles release the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour albums.

·         Israel occupies the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, after defeating its Arab neighbours in the 6-day war.

·         The People’s Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.

·         Nigerian forces invade Biafra.

·         Race riots break out in the USA.

·         Large demonstrations against the Vietnam War take place throughout America.

·         Greece is taken over by a military dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos.

·         ‘Puppet on a String’, sung by Sandie Shaw, wins the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom.

·         Dr Christiaan Barnard carries out the world’s first heart transplant, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

·         Supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France.

·         The first Boeing 737 takes its maiden flight.

·         400 million viewers watch “Our World”, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles’ song “All You Need Is Love”.

 

 

 

·         Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming at Cheviot Beach, Portsea, on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula and is never found.

·         Country Party leader, John McEwen, is subsequently sworn in as interim Prime Minister, pending the election of a new government leader by the Coalition parties.

·         Gough Whitlam defeats Dr Jim Cairns and Frank Crean to replace retiring Arthur Calwell, as leader of the federal Australian Labor Party.

·         Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965.

·         Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives and destroy 2,642 square kilometres of land.

·         Indigenous Australians are given the right to be counted in the national census following a national referendum and legislation changing citizenship laws.

·         Qantas Airways drops the word ‘Empire’ from its name.

·         Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings as rival gangs battle for control of the city’s lucrative gambling and prostitution rackets.

·         The postcode system of postal address coding is introduced throughout Australia.

·         The new Australian $5 note goes into circulation.

 

 

In the Heat of the Night (winner of Academy Award’s Best Picture)

The Graduate

Bonnie and Clyde

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

The Dirty Dozen

You Only Live Twice

To Sir, With Love

Cool Hand Luke

The Jungle Book

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Doctor Dolittle

Thoroughly Modern Millie

 

 

The Last Waltz (Englebert Humperdinck)

This Is My Song (Petula Clark)

Sadie (Johnny Farnham)

Somethin’ Stupid (Nancy and Frank Sinatra)

Itchycoo Park (The Small Faces)

Snoopy vs The Red Baron (The Royal Guardsmen)

Up, Up And Away (The 5^th Dimension)

Georgy Girl (The Seekers)

I’m A Believer (The Monkees)

Dedicated To The One I Love (The Mamas And The Papas)

Green, Green Grass Of Home (Tom Jones)

There’s A Kind Of Hush (Herman’s Hermits)

Whiter Shade Of Pale (Procol Harum)

Friday On My Mind (The Easybeats)

Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles)

Penny Lane (The Beatles)

Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones)

San Francisco (Scott McKenzie)

 

 

I Dream Of Jeannie

Gilligan’s Island

Laugh-In

In Melbourne Tonight

This Day Tonight

Mr Ed

Daniel Boone

Ben Casey

The Flintstones

Lassie

Bobby Limb’s Sound Of Music

The Addams Family

The Three Stooges

The Magic Circle Club

Magilla Gorilla

Prince Planet

Meet The Press

The Tommy Hanlon Show

The Bugs Bunny Show

Marvel Super Heroes

Tell The Truth

Dr Kildare

BP Pick-a-Box

Peyton Place

Bellbird

Play School

Here’s Humphrey

Bandstand

World Of Sport

Disneyland

World Championship Wrestling