1894 MJFA season | |
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Teams | 10 |
Premiers | South St Kilda 2nd premiership |
Minor premiers | South St Kilda 2nd minor premiership |
Wooden spooners | Brighton |
The 1894 MJFA season was the 3rd season of the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA). [1] [2]
South St Kilda won the MJFA premiership for the second year in a row, having won 16 of its 18 games. [3]
Following the end of the 1893 season, St Jude's, Olinda, University 2nd and YMCA left the MJFA. [4]
Caulfield, Nunawading, Scotch Collegians and Windsor were admitted as new clubs. [4] Scotch Collegians was a precursor to the Old Scotch Football Club, which later entered the competition in 1921. [5] [6]
Toorak-Grosvenor played its final full match on 7 July, which was a loss against Alberton. By this point, they had only won 1 of their 9 games. [7]
One week later, they forfeited their 14 July game against Caulfield. [8] They resumed for a game against South St Kilda on 21 July, but after 10.8 to 0.0 was kicked against them, the match was abandoned at half-time and Toorak-Grosvenor disbanded as a club. [9] [10]
A club called Fitzroy Wesleys played at least one game in Toorak-Grosvenor's place. [11]
Fitzroy Wesleys was not included in the ladder at the end of the season published in The Sportsman . [12]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | A | Pts |
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1 | South St Kilda (P) | 18 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 66 |
2 | Collegians | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 52 |
3 | St Mary's | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 46 |
4 | Alberton | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 40 |
5 | Windsor | 18 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 40 |
6 | Caulfield | 18 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 36 |
7 | Scotch Collegians | 18 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 30 |
8 | Nunawading | 18 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 30 |
9 | Brighton | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
− | Fitzroy Wesleys | − | − | − | − | − | − |
− | Toorak-Grosvenor (W) | 10 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
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Nunawading v. Fitzroy Wesleys, at Surrey Hills, in place of Toorak Grosvenor, who have disbanded