1912 VFA season

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The 1912 Victorian Football Association season was the 36th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won for the second consecutive time by the Essendon (Association) Football Club, after it defeated Footscray in the Grand Final by 21 points on 28 September. It was the club's second and last VFA premiership.

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Association membership

After several years of unsuccessful on-field performances by both clubs, the Association was keen to see an amalgamation between the Preston and Northcote clubs; [1] amalgamations between the two clubs, which represented neighbouring northern suburbs of Melbourne, had been mooted on several occasions since 1908, even before Northcote had joined the Association. [2] [3] For the first few years of their amalgamation, the club was formally known as the Northcote and Preston Football Club; [4] but, it played its games in Northcote, retained Northcote's colours, and its team in the VFA was known as Northcote. [5] The merged entity is considered a continuation of the Northcote Football Club.

At the same time, the Association had been keen for many years to field a team in the inner city, an area historically dominated by League clubs. This vision was finally realised in 1912, with the establishment of the Melbourne City Football Club, which played its games at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground. [6]

With these two changes, the size of the Association remained constant at ten teams.

Rule changes

The Association reduced the number of players on the field seventeen-a-side to sixteen-a-side in 1912. [7] The change came only four years after reducing the numbers from eighteen to seventeen in 1908. [8]

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

1912 VFA ladder
PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPts
1 Footscray 1815301559900173.260
2 North Melbourne 1815301269907139.960
3 Essendon (P)1813501458867168.252
4 Brunswick 18117011401082105.444
5 Brighton 18108011111085102.440
6 Port Melbourne 188100985108690.732
7 Williamstown 1871101027111592.128
8 Northcote 1861201030123083.724
9 Prahran 1851301125132784.820
10 Melbourne City 180180762186640.80
Source: [9]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals

Semi Finals
Saturday, 24 August North Melbourne 9.6 (60)drew with Brunswick 9.6 (60) North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 15,000) [10]
Saturday, 31 August Footscray 6.12 (48)def. by Essendon 10.11 (71) North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 20,000) [11]
Saturday, 7 September North Melbourne 6.12 (48)drew with Brunswick 6.12 (48) North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 11,000) [12]
Saturday, 14 September North Melbourne 12.11 (83)def. Brunswick 9.14 (68) North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 11,000) [13]
Preliminary Final
Saturday, 21 September North Melbourne 14.14 (98)def. by Essendon 16.6 (102) North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 20,000) [14]
1912 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 28 September Footscray def. by Essendon North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 25,000) [15]
1.2 (8)
2.7 (19)
2.9 (21)
 5.11 (41)		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		2.3 (15)
3.6 (24)
7.8 (50)
 9.8 (62)		Umpires: Kendall
Banbury, Borthwick, Cotton, Craddock, KnightGoalsClarke 3, McNamara 3, Hoare, Lewis, Sevior

Notable events

Interstate matches

A representative Association team toured Broken Hill in June and July, playing two matches against a Barrier Ranges Football Association representative team. Jack McKenzie (Brunswick) was captain of the Association team.

1912 Interstate Matches
Saturday, 29 June Barrier Ranges 8.12 (60)def. by Victoria (VFA) 9.16 (70)Jubilee Oval, Broken Hill (crowd: 5,000) [16]
Wednesday, 3 July (morning) Barrier Ranges 8.10 (58)def. Victoria (VFA) 6.6 (42)Jubilee Oval, Broken Hill [17]

Other notable events

See also

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  2. ↑ "Football – City of Melbourne Club". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 November 1908. p. 7.
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