1927 VFA season

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1927 VFA premiership season
Teams10
Premiers Coburg
(2nd premiership)
Minor premiers Coburg
(2nd minor premiership)
Matches played96
Attendance386,000 (4,021 per match)
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The 1927 Victorian Football Association season was the 49th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Coburg Football Club, after it defeated Brighton by 34 points in the Grand Final on 15 October. It was the club's second VFA premiership, achieved in only its third season of senior competition, and was the second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1926 until 1928; and, it came after the team was undefeated in the home-and-home season.

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Association membership

In the off-season, the Brunswick Football Club was re-admitted to the Association, after having withdrawn from the competition in late 1926 in protest at suspensions given to two of its players. As such, the Association membership remained the same as it had been at the start of 1926. [1] [2]

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

1927 VFA ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 Coburg (P)1818002005105152.472
2 Brighton 1814401454110075.758
3 Port Melbourne 1813501394101272.652
4 Preston 1812601587132383.448
5 Northcote 1811701378120587.444
6 Williamstown 18710110131289127.230
7 Brunswick 18612010371330128.224
8 Camberwell 18513012611552123.120
9 Prahran 18215111331665146.110
10 Geelong 1811708891623182.64
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource [3]

Finals

Semifinals
Saturday, 3 September Brighton 8.14 (62)drew with Preston 7.20 (62) Motordrome (crowd: 6,000) [4]
Saturday, 10 September Coburg 15.10 (100)drew with Port Melbourne 15.10 (100) Motordrome (crowd: 10,000) [5]
Saturday, 17 September Brighton 12.13 (85)def. Preston 9.17 (71) Motordrome (crowd: 10,000) [6]
Saturday, 24 September Coburg 7.6 (48)def. by Port Melbourne 14.13 (97) Motordrome (crowd: 13,000) [7]
Preliminary final
Saturday, 1 October (postponed) Brighton vs. Port Melbourne Motordrome (crowd: 2,000) [8]
Saturday, 8 October Brighton 11.14 (80)def. Port Melbourne 9.15 (69) Motordrome (crowd: 23,000) [9]
1927 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 15 October Coburg def. Brighton Motordrome (crowd: 20,000 [10] ) [11]
5.1 (31)
9.3 (57)
13.6 (84)
 19.10 (124)		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		1.4 (10)
6.6 (42)
10.7 (67)
 13.12 (90)
Gardiner 10, Forbes 3, Kerley 2, Charleston, Harris, Huntington, RogersGoalsWalsh 7, Hunt 2, De Aurugo 2, Arthur, May
InjuriesIrwin (broken leg), Garcia (thigh), Dainty (leg), De Aurugo (leg)

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ "Football sensation – club leaves Association". The Argus. Melbourne. 21 August 1926. p. 32.
  2. ↑ "Brunswick's position". The Argus. Melbourne. 18 January 1927. p. 7.
  3. 1 2 Onlooker (29 August 1927). "Football – Collingwood defeated". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 6.
  4. 1 2 3 Scorer (5 September 1927). "The Association – first semi-final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 6.
  5. ↑ Scorer (12 September 1927). "Association Semi Final – Second Drawn Game". The Argus. Melbourne. pp. 6–7.
  6. ↑ Scorer (19 September 1927). "The Association – Brighton wins replay". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
  7. ↑ Scorer (26 September 1927). "The Association – Grand Final necessary". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 6.
  8. 1 2 Scorer (3 October 1927). "The Association – first match postponed". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 6.
  9. ↑ Scorer (10 October 1927). "A stirring game – Brighton too strong". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 9.
  10. ↑ "Association attendances". The Argus. Melbourne. 18 October 1927. p. 13.
  11. 1 2 Old Boy (17 October 1927). "Association Grand Final – Coburg premiers again". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 6.
  12. ↑ "Football – Brighton Club's New Ground". The Argus. Melbourne. 16 December 1926. p. 4.
  13. ↑ Fiddian, Marc (1994). Boilovers, Thrillers and Grand Eras in League and Association Football. Pakenham, Victoria: Pakenham Gazette. p. 21. ISBN   1875475087.
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