1897 WAFL season | |
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Teams | 4 |
Premiers | West Perth 1st premiership |
Minor premiers | West Perth 1st minor premiership |
Bernie Naylor Medallist | Albert Thurgood (Fremantle) (27) |
The 1897 WAFA season was the 13th season of senior Australian rules football in Perth, Western Australia. West Perth won the premiership, their first, after remaining undefeated throughout the season. The Rovers team finished last and failed to field a team for the final rounds of the season, forfeiting several matches to their opponents. 1897 was also the final season that Imperials competed, when at the end of the season it was discovered that “many of the bills were unpaid and that creditors were clamorous”. [1]
Colours | Club | Captain | Leading goalkicker |
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Fremantle | John Leckie | Albert Thurgood (27) | |
Imperials | Tom Keenan | Kelly (15) | |
Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) | Robertson | Borland (11) | |
West Perth | Barney Grecian | Dave De Coit (21) |
In 1897, the WAFA competition consisted of four teams of 20 on-the-field players each with only two venues, the WACA Ground and Fremantle Oval being used to host matches. This season also saw the introduction of the rule stipulating that a mark could only be made at the distance of ten yards or more, leading to a more open game. [2]
When reporting match scores in 1897, the number of goals and behinds scored by each team is given; however, only the number of goals scored is considered when determining the result of a match. This was the final WAFA season before the introduction of the modern system of scoring, in which six points is awarded for a goal and one point is awarded for a behind.
Round 1 | |||||
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Saturday, 15 May 1897 | Fremantle 1.1 | def. by | West Perth 5.10 | Fremantle Oval (crowd: 1,800) | [2] |
Saturday, 15 May 1897 | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) 2.6 | def. by | Imperials 6.4 | WACA | [2] |
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Round 2 | |||||
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Saturday, 22 May 1897 | Fremantle 3.13 | def. by | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) 6.6 | Fremantle Oval (crowd: 2,000) | [4] |
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Round 3 | |||||
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Saturday, 29 May 1897 | West Perth 3.9 | drew with | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) 3.2 | WACA | [6] |
Saturday, 29 May 1897 | Imperials 6.7 | def. | Fremantle 3.3 | Fremantle Oval (crowd: 2,000) | [6] |
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Round 4 | |||||
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Saturday, 5 Jun 1897 | West Perth 6.8 | drew with | Fremantle 6.7 | WACA | [7] |
Saturday, 5 Jun 1897 | Imperials 7.8 | def. | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) 4.8 | Fremantle Oval (crowd: 2,000) | [7] |
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Round 5 | |||||
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Saturday, 12 Jun 1897 | Imperials 3.6 | drew with | West Perth 3.8 | Fremantle Oval (crowd: 2,800) | [9] |
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Representative Game | |||||
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Saturday, 19 Jun 1897 | Perth Representative Team 7.15 | def. | Fremantle Representative Team 4.5 | WACA | [10] |
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Round 6 | |||||
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Saturday, 26 Jun 1897 | Fremantle 1.3 | def. | Imperials 0.4 | Fremantle Oval | [11] |
Saturday, 26 Jun 1897 | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) n/a | v | West Perth n/a | WACA | [11] |
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Round 7 | |||||
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Saturday, 3 Jul 1897 | West Perth 8.15 | def. | Imperials 2.0 | WACA | [12] |
Saturday, 3 Jul 1897 | Fremantle 10.13 | def. | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) 4.2 | Fremantle Oval | [12] |
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Round 8 | |||||
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Saturday, 10 Jul 1897 | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) 4.5 | def. by | Imperials 8.9 | WACA | [13] |
Saturday, 10 Jul 1897 | Fremantle 7.12 | drew with | West Perth 7.6 | Fremantle Oval (crowd: 3,000) | [13] |
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Round 9 | |||||
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Saturday, 17 Jul 1897 | West Perth n/a | v | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) n/a | WACA | [14] |
Saturday, 17 Jul 1897 | Fremantle n/a | v | Imperials n/a | Fremantle Oval | [14] |
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Round 10 | |||||
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Saturday, 24 Jul 1897 | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) 5.3 | def. by | Fremantle 7.15 | WACA | [16] |
Saturday, 24 Jul 1897 | Imperials 7.11 | def. by | West Perth 8.5 | Fremantle Oval | [16] |
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Round 11 | |||||
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Saturday, 31 Jul 1897 | West Perth 8.6 | def. | Fremantle 6.4 | WACA | [17] |
Saturday, 31 Jul 1897 | Imperials | def. | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) | Fremantle Oval | [17] |
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Round 12 | |||||
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Saturday, 7 Aug 1897 | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) 2.8 | def. by | West Perth 10.13 | WACA | [19] |
Saturday, 7 Aug 1897 | Fremantle 4.10 | drew with | Imperials 4.4 | Fremantle Oval | [19] |
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Round 13 | |||||
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Saturday, 14 Aug 1897 | West Perth 8.9 | def. by | Imperials 5.10 | WACA | [20] |
Saturday, 14 Aug 1897 | Fremantle | def. | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) | Fremantle Oval | [20] |
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Round 14 | |||||
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Saturday, 21 Aug 1897 | West Perth | def. | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) | WACA | [21] |
Saturday, 21 Aug 1897 | Imperials 8.5 | def. | Fremantle 3.7 | Fremantle Oval | [21] |
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Round 15 | |||||
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Saturday, 28 Aug 1897 | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) | def. by | Imperials | WACA | [22] |
Saturday, 28 Aug 1897 | Fremantle 4.3 | drew with | West Perth 4.12 | Fremantle Oval | [22] |
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Round 16 | |||||
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Saturday, 4 Sep 1897 | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) | def. by | West Perth | WACA | [23] |
Saturday, 4 Sep 1897 | Fremantle 9.6 | def. | Imperials 4.4 | Fremantle Oval (crowd: 1,500) | [23] |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | GF | GA | PP | Pts |
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1 | West Perth (P) | 13 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 70 | 46 | 152.2 | 42 |
2 | Imperials | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 60 | 57 | 105.3 | 32 |
3 | Fremantle | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 64 | 67 | 95.5 | 28 |
4 | Rovers Football Club (1882–1899) | 13 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 30 | 54 | 55.6 | 6 |
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