1933 VFA season

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1933 VFA premiership season
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Premiers Northcote
3rd premiership
Minor premiers Northcote
3rd minor premiership
  1932
1934  

The 1933 Victorian Football Association season was the 55th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Northcote Football Club, after it defeated Coburg by 16 points in the Grand Final on 7 October. It was the club's third VFA premiership, and the second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1932 until 1934.

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Central ground

Through 1933, the Association secured the Motordrome (which was renamed Olympic Park during the season after its concrete motor racing track was demolished) to use as a central venue. The venue hosted all finals, and served as a neutral venue for some home-and-home matches. Moves to expand its use as a central venue in 1934 led to a dispute between the Association and the councils which ran the suburban grounds.

Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over twenty-two matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series to determine the premiers for the season. The finals series was played for the first time under the Page–McIntyre system, which replaced the amended Argus system which had been in use since 1903. [1]

Starting from this season, percentage was calculated as the number of points scored per hundred points conceded, which is consistent with the modern definition. Until this year, it had been calculated as points conceded per hundred points scored. [2]

Ladder

1933 VFA ladder
PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPts
1 Northcote (P)22164221271649129.068
2 Coburg 22156119541699115.062
3 Yarraville 22157021601726125.160
4 Port Melbourne 22147120941728121.258
5 Sandringham 22138121201838115.354
6 Preston 22129120181763114.548 [lower-alpha 1]
7 Camberwell 221210021521970109.248
8 Brighton 2291212014216792.938
9 Williamstown 2271501592195681.428
10 Oakleigh 2271501689220376.728
11 Prahran 2251611855224082.822
12 Brunswick 2231901458229763.512
Source: [2]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers
Notes:
  1. 2 points deducted?

Finals

Semifinals
Saturday, 16 September Yarraville 7.10 (52)def. by Port Melbourne 7.13 (55) Olympic Park (crowd: 4,000) [3]
Saturday, 23 September Northcote 11.22 (88)def. by Coburg 13.14 (92) Olympic Park (crowd: 5,000) [4]
Preliminary Final
Saturday, 30 September Northcote 13.9 (87)def. Port Melbourne 9.10 (64) Olympic Park (crowd: 6,000) [5]

Grand Final

1933 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 7 October Coburg def. by Northcote Olympic Park (crowd: 12,000) [6] [7]
4.1 (25)
6.8 (44)
8.11 (59)
 9.16 (70)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
3.8 (26)
5.11 (41)
7.15 (57)
 11.20 (86)
Umpires: McKinnon
Duncan 3, Mears 3, Geuer, Harris, KightGoals Ross 3, Seymour 2, Bray 2, Byrne 2, Goullet
Rudolph, for kicking Rowe
Stockdale, for striking Bray
Duncan, for striking Hart in the final quarter
Stockdale, for wrestling with Rowe in the final quarter
Stockdale, for rubbing his knuckles on the face of Rowe in the final quarter
Rudolph, for striking Goullet
Rudolph, for striking Bray in the final quarter
Rudolph, for striking Corrigan in the final quarter
Reports Rowe for striking Rudolph in the second quarter
Bray, for striking Stockdale
Bray, for striking Rudolph in the final quarter
Hart, for striking Duncan in the final quarter
Rowe, for wrestling with Stockdale in the final quarter
Rowe, for rubbing his knuckles on the face of Stockdale in the final quarter
Bray, for striking Rudolph in the final quarter
Corrigan, for striking Rudolph in the final quarter
Connell, for striking Lowe in the second quarter

Awards

See also

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