1919 VFL season

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1919 VFL premiership season
Date3 May—11 October 1919
Teams9
Premiers Collingwood
5th premiership
Minor premiers Collingwood
6th minor premiership
Leading goalkicker medallist Dick Lee (Collingwood)
47 goals
Matches played76
  1918
1920  

The 1919 VFL season was the 23rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. For the first time since the peak of World War I, all nine clubs featured, with Melbourne returning after being in recess the previous three seasons. The season ran from 3 May to 11 October, comprising a 16-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.

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Collingwood won the premiership, defeating Richmond by 25 points in the 1919 VFL grand final; it was Collingwood's fifth VFL premiership. Collingwood also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 13–3 win–loss record. Collingwood's Dick Lee won his seventh leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker, which remains a league record to this day.

Background

In 1919, 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.

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 1919 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

Home-and-away season

Round 1

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Carlton 14.14 (98) Fitzroy 8.7 (55) Princes Park 3 May 1919
St Kilda 12.14 (86) Melbourne 9.4 (58) Junction Oval 3 May 1919
Richmond 12.19 (91) Essendon 10.11 (71) Punt Road Oval 3 May 1919
South Melbourne 6.13 (49) Collingwood 9.8 (62) Lake Oval 3 May 1919

Round 2

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Melbourne 3.10 (28) South Melbourne 10.19 (79) MCG 10 May 1919
Geelong 7.9 (51) Richmond 10.6 (66) Corio Oval 10 May 1919
Collingwood 5.15 (45) St Kilda 5.18 (48) Victoria Park 10 May 1919
Essendon 9.11 (65) Carlton 7.11 (53) EMCG 10 May 1919

Round 3

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
St Kilda 4.7 (31) South Melbourne 9.13 (67) Junction Oval 17 May 1919
Melbourne 7.7 (49) Richmond 11.14 (80) MCG 17 May 1919
Fitzroy 18.10 (118) Essendon 5.12 (42) Brunswick Street Oval 17 May 1919
Geelong 5.2 (32) Collingwood 5.19 (49) Corio Oval 17 May 1919

Round 4

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Essendon 4.9 (33) St Kilda 7.6 (48) EMCG 24 May 1919
Carlton 13.21 (99) Geelong 3.4 (22) Princes Park 24 May 1919
South Melbourne 4.15 (39) Fitzroy 4.12 (36) Lake Oval 24 May 1919
Richmond 8.6 (54) Collingwood 11.8 (74) Punt Road Oval 24 May 1919

Round 5

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Geelong 0.18 (18) St Kilda 6.10 (46) Corio Oval 31 May 1919
Fitzroy 10.14 (74) Richmond 7.6 (48) Brunswick Street Oval 31 May 1919
Essendon 7.8 (50) South Melbourne 9.16 (70) EMCG 31 May 1919
Carlton 18.15 (123) Melbourne 5.4 (34) Princes Park 31 May 1919

Round 6

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Richmond 7.20 (62) South Melbourne 11.16 (82) Punt Road Oval 7 June 1919
Collingwood 16.20 (116) Melbourne 8.7 (55) Victoria Park 7 June 1919
Fitzroy 7.18 (60) Geelong 4.4 (28) Brunswick Street Oval 9 June 1919
St Kilda 7.11 (53) Carlton 11.9 (75) Junction Oval 9 June 1919

Round 7

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Carlton 9.16 (70) Collingwood 8.11 (59) Princes Park 14 June 1919
St Kilda 5.12 (42) Richmond 7.9 (51) Junction Oval 14 June 1919
Melbourne 6.6 (42) Fitzroy 11.12 (78) MCG 14 June 1919
Geelong 6.8 (44) Essendon 8.8 (56) Corio Oval 14 June 1919

Round 8

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Fitzroy 13.14 (92) St Kilda 7.5 (47) Brunswick Street Oval 21 June 1919
Melbourne 7.10 (52) Geelong 10.12 (72) MCG 21 June 1919
Essendon 6.8 (44) Collingwood 10.10 (70) EMCG 21 June 1919
South Melbourne 6.13 (49) Carlton 6.8 (44) Lake Oval 21 June 1919

Round 9

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Essendon 16.17 (113) Melbourne 6.8 (44) EMCG 28 June 1919
Collingwood 9.14 (68) Fitzroy 10.11 (71) Victoria Park 28 June 1919
Carlton 9.15 (69) Richmond 14.11 (95) Princes Park 28 June 1919
South Melbourne 5.22 (52) Geelong 5.4 (34) Lake Oval 28 June 1919

Round 10

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Melbourne 5.7 (37) St Kilda 6.11 (47) MCG 12 July 1919
Essendon 6.10 (46) Richmond 6.15 (51) EMCG 12 July 1919
Collingwood 8.11 (59) South Melbourne 3.18 (36) Victoria Park 12 July 1919
Fitzroy 5.11 (41) Carlton 5.9 (39) Brunswick Street Oval 12 July 1919

Round 11

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Carlton 7.8 (50) Essendon 9.11 (65) Princes Park 19 July 1919
South Melbourne 13.16 (94) Melbourne 2.15 (27) Lake Oval 19 July 1919
Richmond 16.15 (111) Geelong 7.14 (56) Punt Road Oval 19 July 1919
St Kilda 5.9 (39) Collingwood 13.13 (91) Junction Oval 19 July 1919

Round 12

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Essendon 9.13 (67) Fitzroy 8.8 (56) EMCG 26 July 1919
Collingwood 12.11 (83) Geelong 4.7 (31) Victoria Park 26 July 1919
South Melbourne 29.15 (189) St Kilda 2.6 (18) Lake Oval 26 July 1919
Richmond 9.18 (72) Melbourne 7.6 (48) Punt Road Oval 26 July 1919

Round 13

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Fitzroy 7.5 (47) South Melbourne 14.10 (94) Brunswick Street Oval 9 August 1919
Collingwood 11.12 (78) Richmond 9.11 (65) Victoria Park 9 August 1919
St Kilda 6.10 (46) Essendon 4.10 (34) Junction Oval 9 August 1919
Geelong 8.11 (59) Carlton 12.22 (94) Corio Oval 9 August 1919

Round 14

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
St Kilda 12.18 (90) Geelong 10.17 (77) Junction Oval 16 August 1919
Richmond 6.21 (57) Fitzroy 3.13 (31) Punt Road Oval 16 August 1919
South Melbourne 12.15 (87) Essendon 8.7 (55) Lake Oval 16 August 1919
Melbourne 5.6 (36) Carlton 13.18 (96) MCG 16 August 1919

Round 15

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Carlton 10.14 (74) St Kilda 9.4 (58) Princes Park 23 August 1919
South Melbourne 6.7 (43) Richmond 4.14 (38) Lake Oval 23 August 1919
Geelong 11.9 (75) Fitzroy 11.9 (75) Corio Oval 23 August 1919
Melbourne 5.6 (36) Collingwood 20.25 (145) MCG 23 August 1919

Round 16

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Richmond 14.16 (100) St Kilda 5.11 (41) Punt Road Oval 30 August 1919
Fitzroy 21.16 (142) Melbourne 2.5 (17) Brunswick Street Oval 30 August 1919
Essendon 9.18 (72) Geelong 6.13 (49) EMCG 30 August 1919
Collingwood 17.11 (113) Carlton 5.16 (46) Victoria Park 30 August 1919

Round 17

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Geelong 14.12 (96) Melbourne 6.15 (51) Corio Oval 6 September 1919
Collingwood 9.13 (67) Essendon 5.14 (44) Victoria Park 6 September 1919
Carlton 8.11 (59) South Melbourne 8.7 (55) Princes Park 6 September 1919
St Kilda 3.14 (32) Fitzroy 7.10 (52) Junction Oval 6 September 1919

Round 18

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueDate
Geelong 6.14 (50) South Melbourne 3.8 (26) Corio Oval 13 September 1919
Melbourne 4.9 (33) Essendon 10.7 (67) MCG 13 September 1919
Fitzroy 6.10 (46) Collingwood 9.10 (64) Brunswick Street Oval 13 September 1919
Richmond 5.12 (42) Carlton 7.19 (61) Punt Road Oval 13 September 1919

Ladder

(P)Premiers
Qualified for finals
#TeamPWLDPFPA %Pts
1 Collingwood (P)1613301243766162.352
2 South Melbourne 1612401111700158.748
3 Carlton 1610601150901127.640
4 Richmond 1610601083916118.240
5 Fitzroy 169611074857125.338
6 Essendon 1679092497794.628
7 St Kilda 16790772109370.628
8 Geelong 163121794108273.414
9 Melbourne 160160647150643.00

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 61.1
Source: AFL Tables

Finals series

All of the 1919 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.

Semi-finals

Home teamScoreAway teamScoreVenueDate
Richmond 10.13 (73) South Melbourne 9.5 (59) MCG 20 September
Collingwood 9.10 (64) Carlton 6.10 (46) MCG 27 September

Preliminary final

Home teamScoreAway teamScoreVenueDate
Richmond 10.14 (74) Collingwood 6.9 (45) MCG 4 October

Grand final

Team1 Qtr2 Qtr3 QtrFinal
Collingwood 1.55.58.811.12 (78)
Richmond 1.24.75.107.11 (53)

Season notes

Awards

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