1915 VFL premiership season | |
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![]() Carlton 1915 VFL premiership team | |
Date | 24 April—18 September 1915 |
Teams | 9 |
Premiers | Carlton 5th premiership |
Minor premiers | Collingwood 4th minor premiership |
Leading goalkicker medallist | Jimmy Freake (Fitzroy) 65 goals |
Matches played | 76 |
The 1915 VFL season was the 19th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured nine clubs and ran from 24 April to 18 September, comprising a 16-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.
Carlton won the premiership, defeating Collingwood by 33 points in the 1915 VFL grand final; it was Carlton's second consecutive premiership and fifth VFL premiership overall. Collingwood won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 14–2 win–loss record. Fitzroy's Jimmy Freake won the leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.
In 1915, the VFL competition consisted of nine teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match. With the VFL being reduced to nine clubs, a bye was required in the fixture for the first time in the league's history. Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds (i.e., 16 matches and 2 byes); once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1915 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".
(P) | Premiers |
Qualified for finals |
# | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
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1 | Collingwood | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1168 | 703 | 166.1 | 56 |
2 | Carlton (P) | 16 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1108 | 770 | 143.9 | 54 |
3 | Fitzroy | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1143 | 765 | 149.4 | 46 |
4 | Melbourne | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1058 | 1066 | 99.2 | 36 |
5 | South Melbourne | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 926 | 872 | 106.2 | 32 |
6 | Richmond | 16 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 906 | 1164 | 77.8 | 20 |
7 | St Kilda | 16 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 779 | 1026 | 75.9 | 20 |
8 | Essendon | 16 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 750 | 1067 | 70.3 | 12 |
9 | Geelong | 16 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 862 | 1267 | 68.0 | 12 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 60.4
Source: AFL Tables
All of the 1915 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the semi-finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.
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