1910 VFA season

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1910 premiership season
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The 1910 Victorian Football Association season was the 34th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the North Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Brunswick by 29 points in the Grand Final on 8 October. It was the third premiership won by the club, and the first since it was reformed after briefly ceasing to exist in 1908.

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Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1910 VFA ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 North Melbourne (P)1815211344630213.362
2 Essendon 1815211266674187.862
3 Brunswick 1814401254800156.852
4 Prahran 1811701273862147.744
5 Port Melbourne 1810801037104998.940
6 Footscray 189901044894116.836
7 Williamstown 1881001018922110.432
8 Brighton 184140876115276.016
9 Northcote 183150828141658.512
10 Preston 180180578211927.30
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource [1]

Finals

Semi Finals
Saturday, 17 September Essendon 5.9 (39)def. Prahran 2.7 (19) North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 12,000) [2]
Saturday, 24 September North Melbourne 6.8 (44)def. by Brunswick 7.8 (50) North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 20,000) [3]
Preliminary Final
Saturday, 1 October Essendon 6.11 (47)def. by Brunswick 8.4 (52) North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 15,000) [4]
  • The finals were originally scheduled to begin on 10 September, but were postponed by one week. [5]
1910 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 8 October North Melbourne def. Brunswick North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 25,000) [6] [7]
1.1 (7)
5.6 (36)
6.10 (46)
 9.14 (68)		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		4.3 (27)
4.3 (27)
5.8 (38)
 5.9 (39)		Umpires: Kendall
Caine 5, Barker, Elliott, Hardy, McCannGoals McKenzie 2, Chase, Corrigan, Mills

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References

  1. 1 2 Old Boy (9 September 1910). "Football – the semi-finals". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 4.
  2. ↑ Old Boy (19 September 1910). "Association Football – Essendon beat Prahran". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
  3. ↑ Old Boy (27 September 1910). "Association Match – a magnificent game". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
  4. ↑ Old Boy (3 October 1910). "Association Football – Brunswick's victory". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 8.
  5. 1 2 Old Boy (12 September 1910). "Association Semi-Final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
  6. ↑ Old Boy (10 October 1910). "North Melbourne premiers". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 4.
  7. 1 2 "Grand Final – North Melbourne vs Brunswick". North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Chronicle. Melbourne. 14 October 1910. p. 3.
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