1930 VFL season

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1930 VFL premiership season
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Collingwood 1930 VFL premiership team
Overview
Date3 May – 11 October 1930
Teams12
Premiers Collingwood
9th premiership
Runners-up Geelong
2nd runners-up result
Minor premiers Collingwood
12th minor premiership
Brownlow Medallist Harry Collier (Collingwood)
Allan Hopkins (Footscray)
Stan Judkins (Richmond)
4 votes
Leading goalkicker medallist Gordon Coventry (Collingwood)
105 goals
Attendance
Matches played112
Total attendance1,876,678 (16,756 per match)
Highest (H&A)40,000 (round 10, Carlton v Collingwood)
Highest (finals)47,985 (grand final, Collingwood v Geelong)
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The 1930 VFL season was the 34th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs and ran from 3 May to 11 October, comprising an 18-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 Geelong by 30 points in the 1930 VFL grand final; it was Collingwood's fourth consecutive premiership, the only time in the league's history that a club has won four consecutive premierships, and ninth VFL premiership overall. Collingwood also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–3 win–loss record. Collingwood's Harry Collier, Footscray's Allan Hopkins and Richmond's Stan Judkins tied for the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest players, and Collingwood's Gordon Coventry won his fifth consecutive leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker, becoming the first player to win the award five times consecutively.

Background

Format

In 1930, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason, Once he had been substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances. Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 5 to 11 (i.e., the last seven matches of the round). Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1930 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

Home-and-away season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Ladder

(P)Premiers
Qualified for finals
#TeamPWLDPFPA%Pts
1 Collingwood (P)18153019311338144.360
2 Carlton 18153017471234141.660
3 Richmond 18117014501163124.744
4 Geelong 18117014951259118.744
5 Melbourne 18117015091441104.744
6 Essendon 18108014951417105.540
7 South Melbourne 1899015531553100.036
8 St Kilda 18810014541435101.332
9 Fitzroy 1871101411158189.228
10 Hawthorn 1861201205155877.324
11 Footscray 1841401164153575.816
12 North Melbourne 181170969186951.84

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 80.5
Source: AFL Tables

Finals series

All of the 1930 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

Preliminary final

Grand final

Season notes

Awards

Brownlow Medal

When the VFL's Umpires Panel counted the Brownlow Medal votes that had been awarded during the 1930 season, it found that three players had been considered best on the ground on four occasions: Harry Collier of Collingwood, Allan Hopkins of Footscray, and Stan Judkins of Richmond. Upon reviewing the rules, there were two inconsistent provisions in the rules concerning Brownlow ties: one in which the umpires would meet to determine the winner, and another in which the player who earned his votes from the fewest game would break the tie; [2] [3] there were also three informal votes which could not be counted, one of which is understood to have ambiguously been for 'Collier', not distinguishing between Harry and brother Albert. [4] The panel recommended that no Brownlow Medal be awarded for 1930; but the full league board of management instead decided used the 'fewest games' tiebreaker to award the medal Judkins, who had played 12 games compared with Hopkins' 15 and Collier's 18. [5]

In 1981, the league changed Brownlow Medal rules to allow more than one player to receive the medal if tied on votes; and, in 1989, it retrospectively awarded medals to Harry Collier and Allan Hopkins for 1930. All three are now considered joint winners.

Other awards

References

  1. ↑ "The Coulter Law". The Argus. Melbourne. 9 July 1934. p. 13.
  2. ↑ "Brownlow Medal - Conditions of Award Conflict". The Herald. Melbourne, VIC. 18 September 1930. p. 15.
  3. ↑ "Brownlow Medal". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. 24 April 1924. p. 9.
  4. ↑ Glenn McFarlane. "The Brownlow Medallists: Harry Collier". Collingwood Forever. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  5. ↑ "Brownlow Football Medal awarded to Judkins". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 27 September 1930. p. 21.
  6. ↑ "League Second Eighteens". The Argus. Melbourne. 6 October 1930. p. 3.
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