1913 VFA season

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1913 premiership season
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Premiers Footscray
(5th premiership)
Minor premiers Footscray
(3rd minor premiership)
  1912
1914  

The 1913 Victorian Football Association season was the 37th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club, after it defeated North Melbourne by one point in the final on 6 September. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership.

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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

1913 VFA ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 Footscray (P)1814401209778155.456
2 North Melbourne 1813411317943139.754
3 Essendon 1813501154966119.552
4 Brunswick 1812511262959131.650
5 Williamstown 1812601082876123.548
6 Prahran 1810801214962126.240
7 Brighton 1851301037127881.120
8 Port Melbourne 185130984126078.120
9 Northcote 185130957132872.120
10 Melbourne City 180180680155243.80
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, 23 August Footscray 7.13 (55)def. Essendon 8.5 (53) Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 13,000) [2]
Saturday, 30 August North Melbourne 8.16 (64)def. Brunswick 4.2 (26) East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 16,500) [3]
1913 VFA Final
Saturday, 6 September Footscray def. North Melbourne East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 20,000) [4] [5]
4.2 (26)
7.10 (52)
8.13 (61)
 10.14 (74)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
3.4 (22)
6.4 (40)
10.6 (66)
 11.7 (73)
Umpires: Hurley
Banbury 3, Grierson 2, Baxter, Cotton, Gregory, Holmes, LawsonGoalsCarpenter 2, Freeman 2, Hardy 2, Hawkins 2, K. Johnson, McKay, Treloar
Harris (ankle)Injuries
  • Had North Melbourne won, minor premiers Footscray would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.

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