1936 VFA season

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1936 VFA premiership season
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Premiers Northcote
(5th premiership)
Minor premiers Brunswick
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The 1936 Victorian Football Association season was the 58th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Northcote Football Club, after it came from fourth on the ladder to defeat Prahran by 15 points in the Grand Final on 12 September. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership, all won between 1929 and 1936, and it was the last top division VFA premiership ever won by the club before it left the Association in 1987.

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Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over eighteen matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the Page–McIntyre system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1936 VFA ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 Brunswick 18162020631395147.264
2 Prahran 18143118961363139.158
3 Camberwell 18126018821553121.248
4 Northcote (P)18116116391339122.446
5 Brighton 18117015451501102.944
6 Preston 18108017391597108.940
7 Coburg 1899019201562123.036
8 Williamstown 1871101185163272.628
9 Yarraville 1861201637175693.224
10 Oakleigh 1851301573189882.920
11 Sandringham 1841401394213765.216
12 Port Melbourne 1821601263200360.28
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource [1]

Finals

Semifinals
Saturday, 22 August Camberwell 8.16 (64)def. by Northcote 18.15 (123) Toorak Park (crowd: 7,000) [2]
Saturday, 29 August Brunswick 14.14 (98)def. by Prahran 15.18 (108) Toorak Park [3]
Preliminary Final
Saturday, 5 September Brunswick 9.13 (67)def. by Northcote 14.10 (94)Brunswick Cricket Ground (crowd: 10,000) [4]
1936 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 12 September Prahran def. by Northcote Toorak Park (crowd: 12,000) [5]
1.3 (9)
8.8 (56)
11.10 (76)
 15.15 (105)		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		7.2 (44)
7.4 (46)
13.6 (84)
 19.6 (120)
Hawkins 4, White 4, Gravell 3, Hyde 2, Thompson 2Goals Ross 5, Seymour 4, Bates 3, Gray 3, Downie 2, Hart, O'Keefe

Awards

Notable events

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References

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  2. ↑ Rover (24 August 1936). "Easy win for Northcote". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 15.
  3. ↑ Rover (31 August 1936). "Prahran makes a fine recovery". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 15.
  4. ↑ Rover (7 September 1936). "Northcote's Association final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 15.
  5. 1 2 Rover (14 September 1935). "Association Grand Final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 14.
  6. ↑ ""Recorder" Cup – Hyde and Reville tie". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 August 1936. p. 15.
  7. ↑ "Huggins best and fairest". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 September 1936. p. 15.
  8. ↑ "Footballer dies". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 22 June 1936. p. 9.
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