1912 MAFA season

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1912 MAFA season
Date27 April – 14 September 1912
Teams10
Premiers Beverley
1st premiership
Minor premiers Beverley
1st minor premiership
Wooden spooners Caulfield
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The 1912 MAFA season was the 21st season of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (MAFA). The season began on 27 April and concluded on 14 September, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season, followed by a two-week finals series. [1] [2]

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Beverley won the MAFA premiership for the first time, defeating South Yarra in the 1912 MJFA Grand Final. [3]

This was the first season under the MAFA name, with the competition renamed from the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA) following the conclusion of the 1911 season. [lower-alpha 1]

Association membership

Like the previous season in 1911, a total of ten teams competed in the MAFA. Oakleigh, which had finished last on the ladder in the past three seasons, left the competition. The Fitzroy Juniors, which won the 1911 Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA) premiership, was admitted into the MAFA. [8] [9]

Prior to the start of the season, Hawthorn merged with the Hawthorn Rovers, a successful junior club, changing to a gold guernsey with a blue "V" of the Rovers. [10] [11] The club also changed its official name to "Hawthorn City", the same name it had briefly changed to in 1906. [12] [13] [14]

VFL affiliations

Starting this season, the majority of clubs developed formal reserves affiliations with senior clubs that were competing in the Victorian Football League (VFL), with the exception of Caulfield and Collegians. [6] Some clubs, including Carlton District and Collingwood District, already had established relationships with senior clubs. [15] [16]

The affiliations were as follows:

Ladder

PosTeamPldWLDPtsQualification
1 Beverley (P)18161166 Finals series
2 Carlton District 18144056
3 South Yarra 18125150
4 Leopold 18126048
5 Hawthorn 18108040
6 Fitzroy Juniors 1899036
7 Collegians 18711028
8 Collingwood District 18513020
9 University 2nd 18315012
10 Caulfield 1811704

Source: [17]
(P) Premiers; (W) Club withdrew

Finals

At the time, the MJFA used the Argus finals system, which gave the club that finished first on the ladder at the end of the home-and-away season (the minor premiers) the right to challenge the winner of the finals series for the premiership. [18]

Semi-finals

Semi-finals
Saturday, 7 September (1:00pm) Beverley 8.11 (59)def. Leopold 3.4 (22) Melbourne Cricket Ground [19] [20] [21]
Saturday, 7 September Carlton District 5.9 (39)def. by South Yarra 7.21 (63) Richmond Cricket Ground [2] [22]

Grand Final

1912 MAFA Grand Final
Saturday, 14 September (1:00pm) Beverley def. South Yarra Melbourne Cricket Ground [23] [24] [25] [26]
2.2 (14)
2.5 (17)
4.7 (31)
7.9 (51)		Q1
Q2
Q3
Final		1.0 (6)
1.1 (7)
3.2 (20)
4.4 (28)
Irwin 2, Enright 2, McDougall, Richardson, MorganGoalsRichardson 3, Sandford
Landemann, Lang, Morgan, Satchwell, Lacey, Yeo, Richardson, Edwards, McKeoneBestEdgar, Atkins, Richardson, Christian, Sandford, Pawsey, Cooper

Notes

  1. ↑ In 1900, the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA, now VAFA) decided on a change of name to the Metropolitan Football Association (MFA). MJFA president Lawrence Adamson brokered a deal that the existing MFA (of 1899) became the MJFA, giving his MJFA (of 1892) the "Metropolitan Football Association" name. [4] [5] Despite this, various newspaper reports from 1900 until 1912 still use the MJFA name when referring to Adamson's competition, most consensus is that "MJFA" in this time period refers to the now-VAFA, and the VAFA's official history continues to use the MJFA name until 1912. [6] [7]

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